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one month left
No, I’m not talking about the lock down. Here in Rhode Island businesses will be allowed to open–sort of–tomorrow. Golfers can use carts. We have to wear masks. Restaurants will open, but only at 25% capacity. It’s a start. But … Continue reading
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six feet sunday
Temperatures reached 67 degrees for a short period of time on Sunday afternoon, so it was time for the visit that Barb and I had been talking about for a month. “The first warm day,” we’d assured each other, … Continue reading
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dining out
Friday morning Banjo Man and I could come to no decision as to where we would go for “Take Out Friday”, our weekly big night in. Then a text appeared from Angela offering a delivered dinner from a fancy, local … Continue reading
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corona confessions
There is a container of three-week-old coleslaw in the refrigerator. I have eaten toasted-cheese-with-fig-jam sandwiches at least twenty-one times in the past seven weeks. Sometime it is impossible to remember when I last washed my hair. I don’t let myself … Continue reading
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hello, may!
May 1st at last! And thus ends SEVEN WEEKS in the house. With no end in sight. As our governor stated yesterday, ending the state emergency order means not getting more federal money. She was very matter of fact about … Continue reading
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like it or not
Have you ever been about 2/3 into a project and realized it really isn’t that good, but you need to keep going anyway because it’s too late to quit and you absolutely have to finish? That’s what happened yesterday after … Continue reading
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no way to say goodbye
Monday was the funeral and I really don’t want to write about it. Aside from it being a cold, gray, rainy and windy morning, it was certainly not the funeral I’d pictured for my mother. I’d always envisioned the entire … Continue reading
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no tiptoeing through the tulips, please
Even though they couldn’t hold their very popular “U Pick” events at the Tulip Farm, the owners found a way for people to being tulips home. We signed up online, picked a day and time, paid online and printed out … Continue reading
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together again
This picture was on my mother’s refrigerator for twenty-six years. That’s how long she was without my father. They were together for fifty years and very much in love until the end. She never got over losing him. She died … Continue reading
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winter wednesday
Okay, I know it’s not winter, but the “real feel” temperature here today is 28 degrees. Oh, that cold wind is whipping around! Doesn’t look like spring is coming any time soon. I bundled up for my daily walk around … Continue reading
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