New shoes trip me up. I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced the same thing, but almost every time I buy a new pair of shoes, I spend the first week or so stumbling and tripping in them until the front of the soles wear down enough to adapt to my footfalls. Nancy […]
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I’m with the “If it ain’t broke, don’t replace it” crowd. So much so that I’ve been using my mother’s kitchen blender for at least 25 years, and she used it for probably a good thirty years before I got it, so it’s a true relic. Her Hamilton Beach has been used, dirtied, and
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Swapped out my summertime backyard campsite for a winterized version this week. I plan to keep sleeping outside for as long as possible It was a foregone conclusion that I was going to enjoy sleeping outside; I just didn’t know how enjoyable it would be, now that I’m 72-going-on-73 (in March 2024). So,
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It rained last night (finally!) and I got to enjoy the ecstacy of sleeping in a tent with a tarp over it so I could enjoy it. T’was HEAVEN ON EARTH! It will be a long time before I get to experience this again, looks like. We’re in a drought here in the Pacific
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My plecos will be going to Aquarium Paradise in Lakewood this week and next. It’s time. I have close to 100 of them by now, I think! Lisa and I rode our bikes from Orting to South Prairie today. For Lisa, it was her first bike trip in nearly two years, so she loved
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The last of my nine pet rats has died. It has felt lonely in my den the past two days, but it was time, and expected. More than three years ago now, I adopted nine female rats — two moms and their babies –to keep them from being taken to a pet store to be
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Headline image of Lisa Twining by Kris M Smith. All rights reserved. THE FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE COURTESY OF LISA TWINING. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED! Here are some of the photos Lisa Twining took yesterday at Ruby Beach and just outside the Hoh Rainforest. Me on the path to Ruby Beach July 6 2023
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I fell into bed at 7 or 7:30 last night, well worn out (but in no way stiff or sore, thankfully!) from the “rock garden” task this afternoon. But that means I slept like a rock for eight hours and then woke up, fresh as a daisy, and I can’t go back to sleep (yet),
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When it comes to being different, I’m an oddball six ways from Sunday: I’m a natural redhead (which is statistically about as likely as being born intersex, which I may also have been). I’m transgender (if I wasn’t born intersex and surgically altered as an infant, something my parents may not even have
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Henhouse Interior for Now, May 17, 2023 I have spent almost two entire days, morning to sunset, in the enclosed hen pen, sitting with the chicks while they adapt to being outside critters. Doing so has helped them decide I’m a legitimate part of their flock, so now when I go out, two or
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