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2005 October - December

Here are some old blogs from the archives. A note that might help make more sense of these posts: The primary audience was my mother. She was living in Arizona and this was before she was on Facebook.  My sister Deb or Mom’s neighbors would print the posts for her to read.  Also, note that none of the links from the original posts are active. Thursday, September 1. I traveled to Kansas City and back with Linda R. to pick up Mike’s niece, Joey (short for Josephine). Joey and her mother live with Mike’s sister and there have been several health issues in the house. Mike and Linda offered to watch Joey for a couple of weeks to let them “have a break”.  We picked up Joey and were about three blocks from her home when she asked, “Are we there yet?” I laughed and gave her the same answer I gave my kids, “Ten more miles!”. She asked again a couple of minutes later and I thought it was going to be a long trip. A few minutes later she was asleep and didn’t wake up until we reached...

2005 July - September

  July 2005 Tuesday Morning July 5. We had an enjoyable 4th of July weekend. On Friday afternoon I cleaned out the garden in the traffic circle across from our home while Debbie stayed at work. Debbie and I have officially adopted this garden. It gave me the excuse to buy a heavy duty garden wagon that was on sale at Costco. This wagon is big enough for four children and it is cleverly designed to fold up so it can be stored against a wall in less space. On Saturday Debbie, Ronna, Mikki, and Aimee got up early (funny how they can do that for shopping!) to drive to the outlet mall in Williamsburg, IA. I stayed behind to work on the “honey do” list. Here are the results: Cleaned out the traps under both sinks in the master bath (there was enough hair in Debbie’s drain to make a wig), installed a flow restrictor in the shower, installed a towel rack in the hall bath, hauled a load to our storage unit and cleaned the garage, picked up Mikki’s car keys from the dealer (with a stop at Me...