April 18, 2024 – All Kinds of Stuff Going On

This has been a week for sure…here are updates on all that is going on: Pete is pretty sick. He coughs every morning, and has for years, from sinus issues. Day before yesterday his cough sounded different to me but he seemed fine otherwise so I figured he was ok. That night he was moaning …
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WE BOUGHT A BUS! April 15, 2024

Yeah, we bought a bus. We’ve been looking at short busses and shuttles for a long time. A year probably. And the Lord provided just the right one, so today we bought it. Gave the lovely young couple the cash, they signed over the title, and we headed home! About a hundred-mile trip, depending on …
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Family Photos – April 8, 2024

These were taken on the occasion of an Olive Garden get-together for Leelan’s 15th birthday. (He had already had another party on Sunday.) My sister Gwen and brother-in-law Don were visiting from Kentucky as well. It was a great evening! If you are a regular reader of my sites or social media posts, you will …
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RARE DISEASE DAY, 2024

Following is a collage and a post that our daughter Casey made on Facebook in 2020. Since it is the best thing she’s written about Lyra’s rare disease, I am sharing it again here; then I will add a few more recent photos of my beautiful granddaughter at the end. #rarediseaseday is February 29! Please …
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Photos Phrom Phebruary

The first few are just random pictures taken this month. At the Eagles club from Sunday, Feb. 25th The landlord from whom we lease this lot started cleaning up the tree from the big January storm this week; before and after photos

BUDGET FOOD HAUL! February 17, 2024

Pete and I went to 2 of the places where we used to shop when we lived in Houghton Lake: Pineview (McBain, MI) and Ebel’s (Falmouth, MI). We haven’t been there to either one in a very long time. This is our haul.

Supernal Sunday – Jan 28, 2024 Edition: My Mind Wonders

This week is going to be different from most others. Last night as I was falling asleep I was thinking about something simply I had seen, and my mind embellished it until it was simply speculation. This is where my thoughts went… I thought about a young man, a family man who, like most others, …
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VIDEO: Vlog #2172 – A Typical Morning At Home

A couple of minutes of what our mornings usually look like after Pete (N8HIS) has finished with his nets and I have done my morning routine, and we are just relaxing, enjoying the animals both outside and in, and peace and quiet.