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Homemade Laundry Detergent, and me!

Marian — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 22:22:29 +0000

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A Long Weekend Trip!

Marian — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:45:22 +0000

We recently drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Along the way we stopped at the site of the ‘94 Olympic Kayaking course and took a few snaps. Pictured here, is a fire watch tower along the bank of the Ocoee River. The leaves had yet to begin turning at such a low elevation, but up [...]

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The Shed

Marian — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:23:47 +0000

Well, our friend Bill, who is a great “handy” guy, was almost finished with the repair of our shed, when he went inside to add concrete panels to the wall, when he found TERMITES. Well, that put everything behind, as far as finishing the shed…. We had some spray for carpenter ants and termites, Bill removed [...]

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SNOW……! It’s 15 April, where is spring?

Marian — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:28:28 +0000

I couldn’t believe when I woke this morning to look outside to see snow falling! This has been the weirdest Spring I think I have ever seen! First everything blooms in early March…. then, were have a hundred year freeze that has killed all of the new growth on trees and shrubs, as well as [...]

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The Fright of Our Lives

Marian — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:00:47 +0000

Our son, Roy, has been sick since last Friday. You know, the stomach thing, diarrhea & vomiting. This combined with what we came to find was Strep on Saturday at the Emergency Room. Last night, about midnight, I was getting Roy’s bed ready to move him off of the couch and into his bed when [...]

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Children and being sick…

Marian — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:22:08 +0000

Friday began like any other Friday…. Get up get the kids off to school, all of the usual things. Little did I know that Roy would come home from school sick. It started with diarrhea at about 3pm. Then by 9pm it had graduated to vomiting. All through the night, he could never really get [...]

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Finally Over It!

Marian — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:14:14 +0000

It all began the night /evening before Thanksgiving! That feeling. You know, like you’re coming down with something. Little did I know that I would still be fighting whatever it was into late February. I had had a flu shot about 10 days earlier, but this was just a cold, or so I thought! When I [...]

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