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This is how we're celebrating twenty-four years together:  Sunday night - watching the Oscars in our hotel room and having a killer...

Had so much fun playing spazoid tennis with H today. I really stink at tennis but can't help myself. 

...near Silverton, Oregon, on Abiqua Creek. We took a personal day from going to church. Abiqua Cree...

At an Allis-Chalmers conference they attended in the 1970s, Gran and Neenaw met Laurie Lea Schaefer, Miss America 1972. She was signing auto...

I inherited some darling vintage linens from my mom. Love the red crocheted edge! 

Trying this Instagram thing.

...must I constantly reassure you? You're worse than a clingy boyfriend. "Are you still watching The Office?" "I...

Obviously enjoying it

My dad came up with that moniker. He loved playing with her when he visited.

...yet another entry in the "Things I Hear Myself Saying To My Children" diary. (The funniest was the vintage nutcracker.)

Adventures in Genealogy: today I learned that my sweet 18 year old aunt married a man who said he was 30 but was really 34, and had been mar...

 Just hanging around the house today. 2016 is already amazing Starting it off right with sparkling apple cranberry cider and of co...

 ... but the people are taking great care of me. Thanks, my people. (They're worth their weight in gold.)

I have no idea why I was at the airport on this day - probably picking someone up or dropping someone off. But here are my feet on the fa...

So gacked out by my body and its lack of sleep right now. Physically I feel worthless, like a lump that takes up space. The words of Elder J...

When we first moved into this house, these poor roses were a scraggly mess - really tall, leggy, dead branches, hardly any blooms. We had a...

We left at 9:00, bought gas, and endured really stupid traffic in Ptown. A rock hit our windshield, too. Boo hiss! By Salem it was time ...