Back Again…. More Catching Up.

Alright; I’m back. Just finished dinner… Dinner was breakfast steak with peppers, onions, and (I believe) Anaheim Pepper; Plus Zatar flavored rice. Right now I’m watching episodes of a show called Blindspot on hulu. I hadn’t really planned on watching it when it first showed up but I decided to watch the first episode and […]

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A Little Catching Up, Sorry for the MIA

It’s been a while hasn’t it. Wish I had an exciting, or at least good, reason for my absence but honestly there hasn’t been any… A little more honesty since we’re, well, being honest here – I’ve also been feeling like I don’t have much to say here and when I do “say”. It’s all […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – May 06, 2018

Hi everyone. Thank you for joining me. Sorry I missed last weekend’s coffee share. Can I interest you in a cup of coffee? I made up a mix of my Sumatra/French Roast blend and Toasted Pecan this morning. Okay, let me first start off by saying – the next time I decide to do the […]

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Share Your World -April 23 & 30, 2018

Share Your World – April 23, 2018 If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?: Probably fruit…. I love fruit. List at least five movies or books that cheer you up. Haven’t read many books or watched many movies lately… If I were to really think about it I […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – April 22, 2018

Good Morning everyone. Once again I feel like I’m back to feeling like I don’t really have that much exciting to write about. Not much has happened this past week and it’s been pretty mehhh. Hope you’ll at least join me for some coffee. I’m having Toasted Pecan with Southern Butter Pecan creamer myself. There’s […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter Q

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. **************************** Q is for Quorum: In general the word Quorum refers to the minimum […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter P

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. **************************** P is for Prayer: There are 3 daily prayer services Morning or Sacharit […]

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Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge: April 15, 2018

These are for Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge Reminders to buy Apple Cider Vinegar and Amino Acids (used in place of Soy Sauce). I had stepped out out of the store I had been shopping in to hear sirens. Looked over and saw these guys driving in to the parking lot across the way. This was […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter N

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. **************************** Getting to my post early today as I can’t guarantee there will be […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Sunday April 15, 2018

Good Sunday Morning. Just made up a fresh cup of coffee (my second cup of the day). Care to join me for a cup? I can make up a fresh cup – Dark French Roast/Dark Sumatra blend or Super Dark, your choice. It’s been a crazy week, mostly dealing with getting the car through DEQ […]

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Share Your World – April 09, 2018

Yes, I’m running a week behind on this In Bold are Cee’s questions with my answers in italics – Been anywhere recently for the first time? Closest I can think of is that I was out at Canada Del Oro Riverfront Park a week ago Friday. Don’t think I’ve been there since we moved to […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter M

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. **************************** M is for Magen David: The Magen David is a 6 pointed star, […]

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#TuesdayChatter – April 10, 2018

OK actually it’s Wednesday,… Been a pretty busy day today. First off the son had a dentist appointment this (well yesterday) morning after which we stopped for 49¢ ice cream cones before dropping him off at school. Then I stopped at a couple of fire stations to drop off cookies before heading home to pick […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter H

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. **************************** H is for Headcovering It is traditional for men above the age of […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter G

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. **************************** G is for The Golden Calf: On Rosh Hashanah and on Yom Kippur, […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – April 08, 2018

Hi, Good Morning… Come Join me for a cup of coffee – super dark or a french roast/sumatra blend. I can also heat up some water for hot tea if you’d rather = mint, mandarin orange, cinnamon apple. I also made up a batch of cold tea (mint & lemon) but it’s not ready yet. […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter E

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. ********************** E is for Eighteen Benedictions: Originally this prayer was called Tefila (meaning prayer) […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter D

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seem to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. ********************** D is for Dietary Laws Also known as the laws of Kashrut. The […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter B

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seemed to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. ******************** B is for Bar Mitzvah: At 13 years of age (12 for a […]

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#AtoZChallenge (Unofficial) – Letter A

I wasn’t going to do this, really I wasn’t… In fact I procrastinated so much that I seemed to have missed the sign up… I encourage you to head Here to check out some of the A to Z Challenge posts. ******************** A is for Adon Olam: Adon Olam Asher Melach, P’Terem Col Yetzeer Nivra. […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Friday March 30, 2018

Welcome to another Weekend Coffee Share hosted by Eclectic Alli. I’m really at a loss of what to say here (what else is new, huh). Can’t say that there’s been much new and exciting this past week. The Hubby had a couple doctors appointment Mondays & Tuesday (he was suppose to have another appointment Thursday […]

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#SkywatchFriday: March 30, 2018

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#ThreeThingsThursday: March 29, 2018

Three Things that mde me smile this last week: 1. Our Chief of Police was named as a “Best in the Northwest” (not exactly sure what is meant by ‘northwest’. A couple other bests: Catalina State Park was named as the Best Hiking Trail Crossroads at Silverbell District Park was named as the best park. […]

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Name Survey

Copying the questions from MyInnerMishMash‘s blogpost: 1. What is your supervisor’s/manager’s first name? Haven’t really had a supervisor or manager in a while…. The CRO who is in charge over the volunteers is David, and my Marky Kay Team leader was Tara… I know a few people with that name – A very pretty name, […]

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Daily Post Photo Challenge: Rise/Set

Here’s this week’s Photo Challenge from the DailyPost: Rise/Set This particular day (the day these were taken), I was able to capture both the sunrise and the sunset. Both were gorgeous – just wish I had a better view of the sunrise (it was blocked by trees and houses). Advertisements

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Cee’s Share Your World – March 26, 2018

Cee’s Share Your World in bold, My answers in italics. What is your favorite color of hair? You can name your hair color or a color that you just like. I kind of like auburn or chestnut. My hair use to be black with red highlights that came out in the summer months (with the […]

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Coconut Cupcakes

Originally posted on This is Another Story:
At the start of the week, my mom told me one of her co-workers was having a baby shower in the office and everyone was bringing treats. Since I’m at home, she had put me in charge of making treats. In the last week or so, I’ve been…

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Weekend Coffee Share – Friday March 23, 2018

Good Morning everyone. It’s one of those rare weeks where I’m getting to my weekend coffee share on Friday, as opposed to my usual barely getting to it on Sunday. The bad thing is there’s not really much for me to report on in my neck of the woods that I haven’t already posted about. […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Sunday March 18, 2018

Another week seems to have flown by and, as usual, there doesn’t seem to be much of anything to say. Can you tell my life is pretty boring. On the flip side that can be a good thing.. Of course when things do happen they really throw monkey wrenches into everything… We spent the better […]

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Three Things Thursday – March 15, 2018

Never did get a chance to write this yesterday…dang near didn’t get it done today, with everything going on. Looks like this is gonna be a bit of a bad news/ good news thing this week. Item 1 – The Car: Long story short, the car ended up overheating on monday. I managed to get […]

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Share Your World – March 12, 2018

If a distant uncle dies and you were always his favorite and leaves you $50,000 (any currency) in his will, what would you do? 2 Things we could do here… A) Put everything towards buying the house from family (long story) or B) Put money into getting a new car and getting some things fixed/done […]

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Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge (March 09, 2018)

Nearly ran into this as I was riding home from the store earlier. Be sure and check out Cee’s Which Way Photo Challenge Advertisements

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Tuesday Chatter – March 13, 2018

I’m afraid my news today isn’t that good… In fact it’s downright lousy. Where do I even begin. Several days ago I noticed that the faucet in our kitchen was leaking whenever I turned it on. Should be an easy fix right just replace the hose except getting to said hose is not so easy […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Sunday March, 11, 2018

Hey everyone. Been a while (totally my bad). Don’t really have a good excuse for my absence from the Weekend Coffee Share. By the way you should check out our host Eclectic Alli Sorry to say no coffee… At least none made up. I mean I could always brew a cup real quick but I […]

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#ThreeThingsThursday – March 08, 2018

You know, I’m not sure but I think it may have been a while since I last did a Three Things Thursday post…. By the way you should totally check it out. The only problem is, as usual, I’m having a hard time thinking of what to write… One thing I could mention is the […]

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#TuesdayChatter – March 06, 2018

Once again my apologies for leaving you guys hanging for so long. Let’s see where were we when I last posted….. Ahhh yes, hubby had just had a routine follow up procedure on his eye. Everything went just fine with all the procedures involved. He still needs reading glasses and still has the one eye […]

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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Chill

My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Chill Cold and wet here today. Well a little on the chilly side anyway, especially for Arizona Advertisements

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#ThreeThingsThursday – February 15, 2018

Three things of note: It’s been raining since yesterday afternoon… Sent the requests off to get transcripts from past colleges (well ones in the mail, the other needs to go in). Right now I’m looking at Health Information Technology. Talking to the career counselor (at the local community college), it does seem to be the […]

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Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge – February 11, 2018

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#TuesdayChatter – February 13, 2018

Getting to the Tuesday Chatter late today. So hubby had the routine procedure done today on his eye that I had mentioned before. He had the same procedure done on his other eye last month. After the procedure we stopped by Einstein Bagels and got a Bakers Dozen plus an extra, and some shmear. The […]

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Silent Sunday – February 11, 2018

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Taking Things Literally – Dealing with Autism

I was recently reading Robyn’s blogpost relating how a child with autism can take things literally and how it can lead to misunderstandings. Read about her experience here. Reading this reminded me of a recent experience with our own son. He is currently working on his Auto-Mechanic Merit Badge in scouts. They do quite a […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – February 10, 2018

Good Morning everyone. I’m still working on deciding if I’m awake yet, or if I even want to be awake yet. Apparently my body does because just before I got up (ohhh half an hour or so ago) I was doing the old toss and turn trick – not wanting to get up yet but […]

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#SkywatchFriday – February 09, 2018

Took this earlier this morning just after it had fully started to get light outside: The moon was still up in the sky. Advertisements

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#ThreeThingsThursday

It’s time, once again, for Three Things Thursday (hosted by Natalie, at There She Goes Some exciting (or somewhat exciting news: My meeting with the career counselor is coming up on Monday. The idea, I believe, is for me to take some (aptitude?) tests, and then I’ll talk with the career counselor and, hopefully, get […]

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Cee’s Share Your World – February 05, 2018

What would be your ideal fantasy way to spend Monday? I could easily spend my Monday (or any day) reading or catching up on old TV shows on hulu. What one person that you are out of contact with would you like to say thank you to? Can’t think of a single person. No one […]

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#TuesdayChatter – February 06, 2018

*Note: Didn’t realize that I hadn’t actually posted this blog before posting the one mentioned at the end of this blog, so things are out of order. Kind of a busy day today. Earlier this morning we went through the monthly “what do we need” list, getting ready for the “first of the month” shopping. […]

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#TwitteringTales – #69

Inspired by the following photo NY Times Best Selling Books Here is my tale: Ohh how she wished she could write… Like that of the authors of her favorite books. In her mind were all sorts of stories and adventures. But as she sat down to write, pen in hand, those stories seemed to vanish […]

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Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge – February 04, 2018

Here’s some oddball photos from the last week: Admissions checklist for community college (Starting the process of going back to school). Turkish Delights – A guilty pleasure of mine. These are one of my favorites. Late winter, here in Arizona. You should see our summer temps 😅😂 Steaks…. for the grill. Was trying to get […]

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Share Your World – January 29, 2018

My response to Cee’s Share Your World Questions this week {Answers in Bold/Responses in Italics} If you had an unlimited shopping spree at only one store, which one would you choose? Why? Ohhh goshhh… I can’t even imagine…. Logic says Walmart because they have dang near everything (though shopping in that store can sometimes drive […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – February 04, 2018

Well here we re into February already. Can you believe it?!? Welcome hope you’ll join me for some coffee or tea. As you can see I’ve already drank part of mine this morning. While your at it, check out and join the Weekend Coffee Share with our host Eclectic Alli. Sorry to hear she’s been […]

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SkyWatch Friday

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A Photo A Week Challenge: Looking Up

Response to Nancy Merrill’s A Photo A Week Challenge: Looking Up Took these photos of the Super Blood Blue Moon (or whatever it’s supposed to be called) yesterday: Advertisements

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#ThreeThingsThursday – February 01, 2018

Time for Three Things Thursday hosted by Natalie at There She Goes Well for starters, I somehow still have it being January on my brain. Thought today was the 31st till I looked at the calendar to realize it was actually February.. My son took his Final Exam in Math yesterday: Not bad considering math […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Variation on a Theme

Here’s various photos of our Meekah-Kitty for the Weekly Photo Challenge this week – Variation on a Theme: Advertisements

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#TwitteringTales – 68

Another TwitterTales challenge hosted by Kat Myrman from Like Mercury Colliding. Photo by hschmider at Pixabay.com One by one the lights were turned out as slowly the village got ready to go to sleep… Even the houses themselves quieted as if getting ready for a nights rest. Tomorrow would start a brand new day with […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – January 28, 2018

I’m continuing to watch more episodes of CSI: Miami and drinking my morning coffee while doing my Coffee Share…. Imagine that, I’m drinking coffee while doing my coffee share…considering I usually end up getting to these more towards evening time. Why don’t you come and join me (virtually that is) for coffee and TV…. We’ve […]

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Letter W

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Share Your World – January 22, 2018

Another “Share Your World Challenge” by Cee Neur. Her questions are in bold, my answers in italics. List 2 things you have to be happy about? I’m sure there’s a lot I could find to be happy about. I’ve mentioned several times about my son deciding (on his own) that he wants to try and […]

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Cee’s Which Way Challenge – January 19, 2018

This one was taken when I went outside to check compass directions in relation to Sombrero Peak (off in the distance). In this one, taken while me and hubby were out taking him to a doctors appointment, you can barely see Sombrero Peak way off in the distance. It’s behind a tree in the right […]

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#ThreeThingsThursday – January 25, 2018

Gonna try to get back into this Three Things Thursday thing (fingers crossed). First thing is that I recently made the decision to close up a couple of my Word Press accounts. One of them I had opened to focus on fictional writing (mostly writing challenges here on wordpress) and the other was one that […]

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Black and White Photo Challenge: Open Topic

Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Open Topic Here are my photos; The bracelets are part of my free gift stash that I use for jewelscent. The cards at the buttom are sample cards I made up containing Orchard Apple.. Advertisements

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#TuesdayChatter – January 23, 2018

Good Tuesday. Hoping all is well for everyone. Won’t you join me for a Tuesday Chatter (hosted by Eugenia). Bit chili today {Screenshot is actually from this morning, but note the highs & lows}. Took my son in to have his wisdom teeth removed this morning. The procedure went fine with no complications and he’s […]

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Cee’s Oddball Photo Challenge

Here are my photos for this week’s Oddball Photo Challenge Blizzards for Customer Appreciation Day Dinner from several nights ago… Tell you the truth, I don’t even remember what it was we had that night. Was kind of hoping the numbing qualifies from this might help calm the constant tickle in the back of my […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – January 21, 2018

The Weekend Coffee Share is hosted, each week, by Eclectic Alli. It’s late in that day and I had my coffee much earlier this morning. We’ve got some Ginger-Ale in the fridge and Coke-Zero in the pantry, as well as ice tea in the fridge. Another typical week this week, nothing exciting, nothing to note. […]

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Safety Among the Trees -Twittering Tales # 67

Responding to the Twittering Tales challenge #67 Running into the thickest part of the forest, Beth felt at one with all the trees there. She had spent many hours of her childhood playing in this very forest and new it like the back of her hand. The trees welcomed her offering her safety. At least […]

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Share Your World – January 15. 2018

Complete this sentence: I’m looking forward to….Don’t really have a whole lot to look forward to, certainly nothing for myself personally …  I am looking forward to my son receiving his Life Rank at the next Court of Honor (in the Spring), as well as his next belt advancement. He just tested for his orange […]

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Agile

You wouldn’t think so to look at me now but there was a time when I use to be a lot more agile than I am.  I could do round-offs (though I never could get the hang of doing a true cartwheel), back bends, summesaults, and something we use to call a cherry-drop (I guess […]

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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter V

Took this at our last Dispose-A-Med event, which is done by volunteers.  This is one of the C.O.P Vehicles (also done by volunteers). Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Letter V (must have at less 6 letters in the word). Advertisements

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – January 14, 2018

Time for another Weekend Coffee Share with our host Eclectic Ali….. Really, writing a coffee-share post shouldn’t be this hard.  I don’t even know what to say or where to start.  Not a whole lot exciting has been going on with me, personally.  Just a lot of the same ole ole. Ever watch CSI Miami? […]

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#WeekendCoffeeShare – Sunday January 07, 2018

Been gone quite awhile and thought I’d take a go, again, at doing a Weekend Coffee Share (hosted by Eclectic Alli). Not much has been going on to write about and I guess that’s part of the problem…Not having anything much to talk about. Things have pretty well been status here. Not much exciting has been happening […]

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Share Your World – January 01, 2018

What one word describes you best? Couldn’t think of a single word to describe me so I decided to try some online quizzes (for fun): What is set as the background on your computer? If you have been to a foreign country name those you have been too? Does going to Victoria, British Columbia count? […]

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