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A few fun facts about my wonderful state.
If you follow my blog you’ll have seen this first one a time or two.
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Now that’s a shoe.
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Alaska beats us.
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I remember that winter. We had temps of -18 for a week.
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Well boo to that!
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Please excuse the quality of these photographs. I was shooting through windows at night and some have annoying reflections…. but four skunks and two raccoons are too good not to share.
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We have nightly visitors like this all the time but every time I try to sneak outside for pictures they run off.
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They don’t mind me flipping on the deck lights…
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But as soon as they hear me, they’re gone.
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You’d be surprised how fast a skunk can run.
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I love our backyard…
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Work has resumed on the shed extension.
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And it’s extended to contain two windows.
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The wood siding was purchased from the same local man who provided the existing shed’s siding…
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Problem is….the old siding was 8” wide and the new is 12”.
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This bothers my husband not one iota…
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But is apt to drive me crazy every time I look at it.
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As does my spouse’s less than even board cutting.
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‘Good enough’ has always been good enough for my man when it comes to building.
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Even if you wanted to.
Trust me on this…
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This is where we are as a nation. Or more specifically, Florida.
WTH?
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Climate change deniers?
Sh*t just got real.
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I can’t even…
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I post some pretty ridiculous things in this series, but… wow.
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I fear for us as a species.
I really do.
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The poor thing was just trying to escape the rubber mystery meat and wilted salad. You can’t blame a rodent for that…
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It seems that my new car has an infinite bag of tricks which pop up at the oddest times.
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She’s loaded with lots of nifty features like headlights that swivel and dim automatically, voice activated commands, and an automatic cell phone charging station as seen below.
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No, I still haven’t figured out all her gadgets and geegaws… but I will tell you my favorite. It’s a game changer and once experienced? I’m afraid there’s no going back.
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Cooling seats.
For a menopausal hot flashing woman of a certain age? This is pure gold.
My husband loves the heated steering wheel but for me it’s all about those lovely little holes in the front seats that provide blessed icy ventilation. Summer doesn’t seem quite so awful now.
(And no, that’s not dust on my screen… it’s a starry night background. We be fancy up in here.)
The other thing that tickles me about this vehicle is the plethora of safety messages that pop up.
When my husband swivels his head to scan a yard sale when driving? Pearl says “Keep your eyes on the road!”
When he was scouting something free on the curb while waiting behind a truck at a stop sign? Pearl said “Vehicle in front has moved!”
Husband thinks it’s annoying, I think it’s a riot.
When she announces, “Don’t bring home any more crap!” I may have to kiss her.
She’s only messaged once while I’ve been driving. I was playing with the gas mileage numbers and had taken my foot off the gas going down a hill to increase consumption. Apparently she thought I was falling asleep and said this:
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Ya gotta love it.
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As previously reported, the new door is in and secure.
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Though my husband’s faulty depth measurement raised its ugly head on the exterior.
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Raw unfinished wood was showing on both sides…
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Thankfully since he’ll be butting the thick stone siding next to it, a bit of pvc trim covers the mistake.
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I usually get nervous when my husband has to mitre something…
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But he did well this time around…
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With only a few minor adjustments.
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Gorillas don’t compare size in the locker room.
You heard it here first.
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I’m not laughing.
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Human micro penis.
Am I the only one who didn’t know this was a thing?
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In gorilla land, size truly doesn’t matter.
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It’s nearing the end of the growing season but my geraniums are in peak form. Go figure…
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Construction on the shed extension is progressing slowly.
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And look, it be fancy.
Windows.
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Lord Dudley Mountcatten finally decided the new porch wasn’t dangerous and explored.
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The stone was particularly interesting and warranted much sniffing.
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As did the new door’s glass panels.
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Please note Polly the Polyphemus moth is still cocooned … weeks past her/his hatching date. I fear we’ll have to keep it safe until next spring now.
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Poles and more poles are going up across the road.
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I can’t tell you how much I’m dreading seeing those giant greenhouses. Losing our nice view is depressing.
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Entire pitcher of sangria worths depressing.
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We had a surprise visitor the other day.
It was a childhood friend of my husband’s from Connecticut who had stopped by my BIL’s and wanted to drop in to say hello.
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After thoroughly checking out the husband’s new treasure, we moved into the man cave/Barn Mahal where I took a picture.
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(Husband’s brother on the left, old friend in the middle.)
If you look closely… in between my husband and his friend, you’ll see a framed photo on the wall.
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This photo, taken in Vietnam in 1968.
( Husband on the right, old friend on the left, brother next to old friend)
Three of those four men were reunited in our barn 56 years later.
That made my heart smile.
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Because it’s better than eating kale.
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Here are mine.
While reading The Life Impossible, which is set in Ibiza Spain, I read a chapter about a massive nightclub called Ku… think Studio 54 on steroids. It said Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé filmed the video for Barcelona there so I had to check veracity.
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It’s true.
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Poor Freddie, gone too soon.
Next was a search about the benefits of glucosamine chondroitin.
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I’ve tried everything else for my knee pain, I figure it can’t hurt.
Search #3 was for the Say Hey kid.
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Being a baseball (and baseball history) lover, I just watched an HBO documentary on this amazing athlete and needed a few more facts.
Lifetime batting average? 302.
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Your turn.
Last three searches… go!
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