I just set up a home mini gym in my Critter Corral (living room) so I can exercise when the weather is too cold or crummy. I have a free membership with the YMCA but with COVID morphing and hanging around, except to swim there on occasion (very early when few other people are […]
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I’m going to start a podcast. This blog post will explain why, and why I hope you’ll attend and engage with me on the new show. (On-air interaction will be a huge factor as to whether or not it will succeed long term! I will need to be able to count on you!) My
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Here’s my mother’s family-famous recipe for Molasses cookies. Why should just our family be so blessed? Ingredients: 1.5 cups of shortening or plant-based butter (softened); if you use dairy-based butter, cookies will be flatter but no less tasty!) 1 cup sugar 1 cup brown sugar One half cup molasses 2eggs 4.5 cups of flour 4
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Rats are amazing animals. (Visit the link for details.) They’ve gotten a bad rap in many societies, but some societies revere them. I can see why, as a result of watching my own. I’ve had pet rats several times in my life. Right now I have nine females; one is presently on loan
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ACK! Now I’m reconsidering going to the Y for exercise again, with Omicron raising its ugly head. It’s a mutation of COVID-19 and considered of high concern. I’m vaccinated and boosted, and I’m convinced (as is my PCP, although I’ve haven’t been tested for antibodies) I had COVID early in the year it came
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Tomorrow my sisters, Laurel and Jackie, and some of their offspring (not sure which ones yet!) and families gather under this roof (Jackie’s side of this duplex-like structure) to remember our mother, Dorothea Hope Smith, whose 100th birthday just passed on November 24th. (Link to my blog post from that day here.) MOM’S MOLASSES
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For the first time in well over a decade, I’m truly feeling the holiday spirit this year. It’s a relief. I was thinking I’d never feel it again… I don’t know what happened to make me lose the holiday spirit. I suppose it was at least four-fold: I began to doubt (and
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HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY, DOROTHEA HOPE SMITH! Our mom, Dorothea Hope Smith, died in 1998 just a month short of what would have been her 77th birthday. She never got to meet her grandchildren Casey, Jamie, or Isabella and I don’t think Elizabeth was old enough to remember much about her Grandma Dorothea, but she is
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I joined the YMCA this week and plan to visit it at least three times a week all winter and spring, until I can go biking regularly again. The first time I went, I walked a mile and swam for almost an hour. Yesterday when I went, I went to the core training
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As if baby mollies weren’t enough, this morning I found baby plecos in my aquarium! There’s heckuva lot of baby-making going on in my tank! I must be doing something right! The baby plecos don’t need to be put into the baby mollies “nursery tank,” luckily. The baby plecos are big enough to
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