Category: My Family
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Ancestry Anomalies
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My wife and I have taken an interest in our family trees. We did the DNA thing and are learning a lot of things and meeting some new people. My wife can go clear back to the 1600s and may be a Daughter of the American Revolution. It’s been really…
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The Bear Returns to a New Trash Can
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I broke down and bought a new, bear-proof, trashcan. I got so tired of picking up his trash that I bought this very nice one on Ace Hardware’s website. It was also the least expensive one I could find that was certified bear-proof. A lot of our trash fits in…
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What Do You Represent?
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Life is full of symbols and representations. My work uniform represents something. People see it and form ideas, right or wrong, about me based on what they have seen or been exposed to previously. I have always been conscious of this whenever I have had a job that had a…
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Re-Re-Posted
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I reposted this because I found that even though I had reposted it on 4/6/2015 I could not find the original anywhere. Not in any folder on any backup drive anywhere. That worried me because this was really special to me. Subscribers should receive the original and this post. I…
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Stand Up, Knuckleheads
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We took the grandkids to the park today for our city’s annual balloon festival. We woke them up at 5:15 am and we left the house by 6:10 so we could find parking. Our family tradition for this occasion, ever since our own kids were little, is that we buy…
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My Daughter The Teacher
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Sometimes the way things happen and the timing of events is an interesting thing to me. I was just reading the entry from my parents’ final visit, https://thehapswithherb.com/day-5-060706/, and my dad was talking to the girls about Abigail’s report card, all A’s and one A-, compared to his, 75% in…
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New Streak
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Today marks the beginning of a new streak. I missed yesterday. To be fair to me, there was a lot going on. We had to take Grandma to the Emergency Room last night and even though it turned out to be okay, actually pretty good, that place always costs time,…
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A Flowery Fiendish Conspiracy
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Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings and Flower Children, I have written about many things on this blog in times past; politics, religion, personal, emotional and spiritual matters and a lot more. But I have discovered a conspiracy that is profoundly evil and insidious and yet most people do not…
