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Butterfly Luck (opens the original)
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I love a bit of luck. We are due. Yesterday I am outside tending my flower garden and I turn around to see a beautiful monarch butterfly lands on my step. It sits there as if to say hello, allows me a few pics and flies away. A moment later a second monarch appears slightly damaged and missing a section of wing but flying just the same. As she flits about on one of my flowers, I realize that I have been visited by two different monarchs.I immediately know that it is a magical moment.Even if it i
Paint on (opens the original)
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Today is day three of painting the kitchen. I am sometimes known to be VERY independent. I don’t wait for an invitation or ask for permission. I just do. This week was one of those things that I just do. I decided it was time to spruce up the kitchen and that the cabinets and the trim should be repainted. They have been a variety of shades in the last 6 years, but this one actually had an inspiration in mind (Thank you chat GPT).This years color is English Ivy - an homage to my Mom’s rootsI sele
Colorado 1975 (opens the original)
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The other day I took a bicycle ride along the Mississippi River and as I came upon the campground a memory came out of the blue. The smell of the campfires brought back a memory tucked away for years. It was 1975, I was 15 years old and our church youth group was taking a youth trip out west. Rhinestone Cowboy was playing over and over on the radio in the van and we were on an adventure. There was a group of us traveling in 2 vans to Colorado. We would stay at homes, campgrounds and even a churc
Seriously Cannot (opens the original)
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If you follow me at all you know I love a good thrift find. About a month ago, I was doing a little retail therapy, that means I walk around the thrift shop to work out whatever my frustrations might be until they are bay. As I strolled the aisles, there wasn’t much that was attracting my eye. Then I rounded the corner and there was sweatshirt hanging on the end with the words “Seriously Cannot” . Simple message, white sweatshirt, blue letters. It was spoke to me. I snagged it. I don’t know the
3 days in September (opens the original)
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Life is unpredictable and you really need to learn to go with it. When you have time to spend with people who truly enjoy you or want to be with you or even love you. You should do it. Why? Because you can, time is the single best thing you can give people you care about and those that care about you. Quality over quantity. Every time. Allow me to elaborate - Recently we were planning for major surgery, it has been postponed. Some family members had planned a visit to help in the aftermath, when
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