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The Retirement Home Search and The Well of Memories
We were out for an adventure today, shopping for a retirement home. That’s what it was, really, although we really didn’t make any hard decisions or commitments. Nowadays there are considerations for whether to build from the ground up, buy and modify a spec home, buy an older home, go condo, even rent, move to…
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Retirement Home?
You know, sometimes I wonder about rephrasing the line in the Men in Black movie, “Let’s put it on…the last suit you’ll ever wear.” How about, “Let’s do it…the last house you’ll ever buy.” That’s what I think the retirement home should be. Houses are getting harder to find and the home-buying experience has sometimes…
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Thoughts on Paunch
I’ve thought about my weight over the past few days and decided to look at a few pictures. I had not realized that I had lost about 20 pounds over the last several years. This was all intentional and I’ve shed about 7 of those in the last six months—due mainly to daily exercise including…
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Robin Saga: Start to Finish
We’re just a bit on the sad side today. The robin chicks are gone. It’s another empty nest and sort of the story of our yard over the last month or so, what with the loss of the house finch and cardinal chicks before this. It’s a hard life for every creature. On the other…
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Just an Introduction
Well, it has been about 3 months since I opened this blog. My YouTube channel needed an updated channel trailer, so I’m posting it here as well. Why not? I was surprised at how long a minute and a half channel trailer took to make, even with the aid of video editing software (maybe because…
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Robin Saga: The Next Chapter
This is just a quick post updating the saga of our robin family in the front yard crabapple tree. It looks like all 4 chicks are alive and kicking so far. The parents are very protective. The male robin won’t fly away unless I’m just close enough to touch him. The female is about the…
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Baby Robins Fill the Nest
It rained for about an hour or so before I could get out to the crabapple to check the progress of the robin hatchlings. Yesterday there were two unhatched eggs but there was a definite hole in one of them. There are now 4 hatchlings, although the biggest one looks pretty sluggish—and appears to sport…
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Hatch You Baby Robins!
Yesterday, we noticed 4 eggs in the Robins’ nest. They take about 14 days to incubate and it just so happens time’s up today. Right on cue the eggs started cracking this morning. It takes all day and it was well after 3:00 PM before there was the tiniest pinhole in the third egg. Two…
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Life in the Garden
We were out working hard in the garden today–or at least Sena was. She was very busy planting Black-Eyed Susan and other things the names of which I can never remember. I usually just take pictures and make videos of her garden. It’s a lot of fun watching her. But that’s not all I do.…
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More Reset Woes
It can take a while longer than you expect when you do a system reset of your computer. I’m still trying to get my software reinstalled. You know, it’s not very funny when you get the message that all of your apps are going to be expunged and the long list you see on the…
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