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summer
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living deliberately, summer
Planning an electricity fast
04.15.10 | Permalink | 18 CommentsFour months ago we had a utility bill that was almost twice our usual. Tom was “fixing” our front door, which involved a lot of it being open, also I was cavalierly opening windows in dead of winter for fresh air. So we turned our thermostat down to 60. (With an intermediate stop at 62 [...]
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summer
Summer Internship
06.05.09 | Permalink | 21 CommentsI had an email from my cousin David last week. “The vegan one?” Dick asked. Yep the vegan one, also the cousin who introduced me to U2′s The Joshua Tree on a camping trip in 1989, back when we took cassette players on camping trips in the desert. I don’t see David often anymore, in [...]
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summer
Have we met before?
09.06.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsWhen I was a little girl, I wanted to marry a good Mormon boy from a large Mormon family, and in the summers, we would flit from one large family reunion to another. Instead I got Dick, who, after surviving my dad’s family’s reunion, wanted to know whether family reunions were a common thing in [...]
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blogging, summer
Unscheduled Blogging Break: the Good, the Bad, and the Still Dirty House
08.19.08 | Permalink | 13 CommentsI haven’t posted in nine days, which in blogging terms is closer to seventy-four years. Didn’t plan it, didn’t resurrect posts from my archive (most of which make internet bulimia look good). I don’t really know what happened, beyond your common-or-Dr. Seuss-variety slump. A few years ago, Angela from New York sent us the children’s [...]
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marriage, summer
For Nana and Grampa in Florida — Thanks for the dorky husband. Also, you’ll be glad to know your grandkids can swim
07.14.08 | Permalink | 8 CommentsFor a few months after my sister’s husband left her, Dick and I were really nice to each other. I cooked his favorite meals (or at least I cooked: not sure if they were actually favorites). He started putting Spot to bed along with her sisters. Of course he does this completely wrong, letting Spot [...]
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summer
Sugar and Sugar, and Everything Nice
07.08.08 | Permalink | 10 CommentsLast week Mary Poppins visited, and she brought a craft. I think she got the idea from church, where the nice ladies helped the kids make sugar cube temples. Families are big at the Mormon church. By big, I mean important, though often they are above-average-in-size, too. Dick and I were married in the Manti temple ten years ago, and [...]
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summer
“Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb. You gonna arrest me? Bomb bomb bomb bomb! During the war I was a BOMBadier!”
07.07.08 | Permalink | 4 CommentsDiet Coke and Mentos on the 4th of July from jane on Vimeo. My younger brother Ryan has been wanting to show us the beauty of a Diet Coke/Mentos bomb for some time now. What better day than the 4th of July? Notice Sally trying to save Spot. And that is not me screaming.
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