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Since today is the first day of Spring, here is thirteen things I love and hate about Spring:

Love: Flowers. Who doesn’t love flowers?
Hate: Flowers. I’d like to know who came up with the idea that flowers should make you sneeze? I ache for poor Jack this time of year.
Love: The [...]

Jack and I aren’t really the kind that dress up our animals or get all fancy with our stuff (not that animals are ’stuff’ but you know what I mean). This doesn’t include holidays of course and even then it’s usually only Halloween and Christmas we go all out with the decorating. With our every [...]

Unfortunately Jack had to work Saturday and that messed up our plans to go to Cathy’s house this weekend. That left me with not much to do as I had the house totally cleaned and all the laundry done. I thought about looking into body shop supplies to see what we can do with the [...]

Warning for those with sensitive eyes: This post contains a naughty word or two.
This is also a two part post. Part II will follow later today or tomorrow.
Here I was minding my own business balancing my checking account when my dogs started barking and whining at the front window. A few seconds later there was [...]

You all know I have two golden retrievers: Randy a 5 year old male, and Kendra a 2 year old female. I’ve posted about Kendra’s perching habits before and this week Kendra has discovered two new places to perch. We covered our patio table and she decided that meant it’s now hers, and the board [...]

When I was a child there was a brief time when my mother was married to my sister’s dad (my step dad) where we lived in a house that had a lot of trees in the yard. I remember spending a couple autumns at this house raking those leaves into big piles. I remember the [...]

The kids had a great first day of school. Except that Cody’s day ended kinda yucky. He came off the bus crying. He had a bloody nose! I guess him and another boy were rough-housing and he accidently got hit in the face. Poor guy. Overall they had a great day and they all seemed [...]