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I need better friends …
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Home for Extreme Cold
MPS closed. We are baking bread and maybe sewing some doll clothes. Ava’s here for the day, too!
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Does me proud
Yay! The realization that there’s more than car camping.
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Focus …
I’m trying to create some focus in the new year. One of the things that’s not worked is the comingling of serious topics and hobbies on this site. So, I’m re-booting my other site as the “serious stuff” site, and leaving this one for “fun stuff” like tinkering with bikes, travel, backcountry nerd-outs, etc. So, DisorderStudio, Twitter, and LinkedIn will be…
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More fat tire fun
Ever since I got the Framed MN1, I’ve wanted to tweak a few things. The bars were really wide and too far forward, etc. Also, as I’ve been riding it, I’m starting to see the places that they saved a few bucks to bring the price down to such a low level. I’m not complaining,…
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New Year’s Tea
Finally experienced High Tea at the St Paul Hotel! It was so nice to celebrate my birthday (belatedly-note- make a reservation well in advance to have tea at SPH) with Cobber friends! I’m a tea snob, so the fare at SPH did not meet my expectations, but the companionship elevated the entire experience, so I…
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Making lemonade in December
So, Bryant doesn’t want me to post this, but I’m not ashamed to admit that the girls and I had lice. Ugh! Not fun, but what can you do?! Pay the Ladybugs (lice removal squad) $600+ and move to a downtown hotel for 48 hours, that’s what! It’s a spontaneous stay-cation. When we get home,…
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Decorating
I’ve updated my “branch of many seasons” for December. I decided to display my collection of Feliz Navidad ornaments, which was started by my friend, Peggy, the other Spanish teacher at my first teaching job, one each Christmas during the years we taught together. It was a clever gift, I’ve always thought. The cool branch…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
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And here comes the latest sexist float in the tech parade
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