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Happy Thanksgiving!

From our home to yours,
have a very blessed Thanksgiving!
Mike and Gayle
http://www.thanksgivingmovie.com/

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Cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can
Into the wild blue
Set me free oh I pray
Closer to heaven above and Closer to you
Cowboy take me away-The Dixie Chicks
Some days this song from the Dixie Chicks just plays in my head…Cowboy take me away!  I teach health education classes as well as work [...]

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It’s that time of year for all of us who host our family and friends for Thanksgiving.  Making the plans! What will you have to eat, who will be able to come, and what can you do besides eat and watch the ball game?  Every year, I keep most of the traditions; turkey, dressing, [...]

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“A human life has seasons, much as the earth has seasons, each time with its own particular beauty and power.  And gift.  By focusing on springtime and summer, we have turned the natural process of life into a process of loss rather than a process of celebration and appreciation.  Life is neither linear nor is [...]

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“When the storms come, we know a profound sense that autumn is going to slip away into winter before long.  Wind whips away all of  summer, rain sluices the air.  Branches fall.  Windows rattle.  Smoke backs down the chimney.”-Gladys Taber
Last night we had one of our first November storms.  We have them often here [...]

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Within a few weeks we were moving in and then realized why they accepted our low offer. There was tons of work here!

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Lessons Learned

Sometimes we make our plans and God has another plan.  I seemed to jump right into that this week as I went for what I thought, was a visit to see my brother and his new baby.  My mother who is 82, ended up in crisis.  I’ll spare you the drama story, but she is [...]

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Our Girly Girl

Last week was one awful week!  I started it teaching a 10 hour class on mental illness. I’m not sure if it was me, the group, or the subject, but the class really bombed.  I got a few horrible reviews and that always makes me feel terrible.  There were many positive reviews, but I had [...]

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Now that summer is almost over, we look back and remember special moments.  Most people remember laying by the beach, vacationing, family barbecue’s.  This summers memory for us was remodeling the bathroom.   My husband took  a week off of work, and we put aside around $1,500 for the project.  Work at his job got busy, [...]

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“One morning I go out to pick wild asters and suddenly it is September at Stillmeadow.  I think the first sign is the smell of the air, like wild grapes and windfall apples.  I know fall is here, although the world is still green with summer.  And I feel an urgency to gather in all [...]

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