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40 Years

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How do you sum up 40 years! A lifetime! Does it really seem possible? Who are these kids in these pictures?

Time is a peculiar thing. Does it not seem like forever ago, and yet seems like no time at all? 40 years ago these two children pledged their lives before their God and family to be faithful to Him and faithful to each other. A huge commitment. Did we understand the commitment? Do you see all that lays before you? The answer obviously is no, how could you. But one thing I will say from the beginning, He was faithful to our commitment to Him. He has carried us through the life that lay before us. He has been faithful to keep us faithful to Him and to each other. He IS faithful! He deserves the praise!
What fun we have had! Living from paycheck to paycheck. Moving from Bakersfield and back to Bakersfield, and from Bakersfield and back to Bakersfield. From life with each other, to life with one child and another child. To life with 2 children to life with one child and life with each other. Life with children in law, first one child married, to another child married. Life with each other, life with married children, to life with one grandchild, to life with two grandchildren and then a third. Life moves forward. Blessing upon blessing, each stage unique and different and full. Moments to savor and replay in your mind, fun times, hard times, great family times, great times with friends. Friends have played an important part in our married lives. In many ways our friends have been our family. Great friendships, based on our mutual love for our Lord. Church, Bible studies, and eating together, late nite card games, raising children together, weekend trips, vacations, stops at Denny's for strawberry pancakes, singing with the guitar, laughter and crying. In 40 years there has been crying, how could there not be. Illness, and surgeries, death of family and friends, broken relationships. Life includes those hard times. But really! 40 years! Really!!

Hanging with the Henry

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It was suppose to be a family trip to Pismo, to start the Thanksgiving week! But with Brother and Mommy sick, it was a perfect day to hang with my Grams! Do you like my glasses? We went to see a 3D movie, and I got these cool glasses, which I only wore part of the time during the movie, but worked great as sunl glasses when I played at the park. I bought Grams popcorn for the movie, which, I think she ate most of it, but she bought me chocolate ice cream, which we ate by the fountain! It was such a fun day! I didn't want to go home.

Saturday two

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Our previous Saturday whetted our appetite for a re-do of Santa Barbara. Besides our grandkids were camping in Carpenteria! Another excuse to make a trip to Santa Barbara. Surprise the grandkids was the order of the day, so what to fill the rest of the day. Saturday one,the visit with my folks, to my step dads house had taken place without a single picture taken! Bad children we were. Besides, Paradise was calling us back.
We drove out to the house and snapped the pictures, the day was beautiful, breezy, balmy, without being hot, and clear. A perfect day to enjoy a picnic lunch under giant old oak trees. Besides, we were on a mission to only spend $20 dollars for the day!

It was quiet, the sound of the breeze through the leaves and the occasional wood pecker working on the trees. Made my 'love the outdoors' heart smile. The thought of a hammock passed through my mind!

We still had lots of time to spend before we headed to surprise the grandkids! What to do, what to do...driving back to town, we were ooohhhhing and aahhhing over all the buildings.(shocker, I know) we decided to visit the courthouse. In all the visits through the years we had never toured the courthouse. Renowned for it's architecture,

registered on the historic buildings registry. What a treat it turned out to be. Of course, this is what we enjoy. The docent at the info desk was more than encouraging of the different floors to visit. Filled with wonderful Spanish architectue, ceilings, and floor tiles, and murals, the second floor of the clock/bell tower is completely covered in wall murals. As we stood taking it all in, a guitarist began to play...absolutely delightful!

Hmmmm....could have spent the rest of the afternoon soaking it up. But, I would have missed the top! 360 degree view of Santa Barbara! A-Mazing! Ahhh...Santa Barbara....majestic hills on one side, the Pacific blue on the other!

Our goal to spend only $20 was thwarted at the campout entrance! Not realizing we could have parked outside the camp, we paid the hefty $10 fee to surprise our kids at their campsite, hopefully! With 200+campers just from the church, trying to find them was a challenge! We stealthy walked down the beach until we were discovered! Fun! So worth the surprise!

Hmmm...beach air, campfire smoke, the voice saying, hey grams...it doesn't get any better!
Happy heart...

And then there is this.

One Saturday turned to two

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Moments happen, when you just wish you could freeze frame the moment. A trip with my folks to Santa Barbara, to celebrate their 34th wedding anniversary, or at least that was the excuse we used. Ahhhh...Santa Barbara, if only I was monetarily rich...where the 'haves' live on a sliver of land between the rugged oak covered mountains and the blue ocean! Ahhh...Santa Barbara....
We enjoyed lunch on the pier; shrimp cocktail and bowls of clam chowder, though our window view table only allowed somewhat of an ocean view through the not completely burned off morning fog.

What was there to do after lunch. My step dad isn't up to walking very far, between the wobbly legs and the oxygen tank, and add a fall the week before, needless to say walking anywhere was not an option. Somewhere in the middle of lots of conversation, reminiscing about all the trips they had made to the Santa Barbara, and Mac's years as a child living in Paradise, off the old stagecoach route, it was decided to see if we could find the old house. Though it had been 70-ish years since he lived in Paradise, he had made a trip out that way about 25 years ago, and his memory took us right to the not so bad looking house. Nestled in the old oak trees, a table and chairs on the front porch, the house has had some 'add ons' which made it seem all pretty inviting.

He talked about him and his sister and mom, how they would make the weekly trip into Santa Barbara, he and his sister to the Granada theater for a movie, while his mom would do the laundry. The return trip home was rewarded with a stop at the Cold Water Springs Tavern, where they would buy a coca cola, for a dime!
We drove the old stagecoach road, paved these days, but Cold Water Springs is still a stopping spot, the mode of getting there is changed, and you have to purpose to turn off the highway, but from the fragrance of wood smoke in the air, and the smells from the 'restaurant' would tempt me. The drive back into town, coffee and a 'sit a spell' time, a slow drive down State Street and homeward bound we were. But it just whetted Duane and my appetite for more of Santa Barbara.

Fall fun-ness part 2

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Autumn brings my mind to cool weather and leaves turning from deepest dark greens to yellow golds and reds to purple and brown. I think of cool breezes and pumpkins and spiced apple cider, and of course football, but that's not included in this post! Grandad and I had our time at the pumpkin patch with two cute little pumpkins, Henry and Ben. There weren't cool breezes or the fragrance of spicy pumpkin pie baking. No, it was warm, not hot, but definitely not cool or breezy!
Today,the adventure was the apple orchard! What more could two boys want to do but have permission, even prompting to pull things off trees! Add a few of your cousins and it made for a near perfect day. Not quite perfect...no cool air, and we missed the fragrance of apple crisp baking, but nonetheless, the reward of a bucket full of tasty apples!

A snooze was needed first in order to attack the apple orchard!

Oh some swing time as we wait for mom to take pics of the cousins.

Finally apples!

And of course I made a new friend!

Fall Funness

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A lovely autumn afternoon, leads to a trip to the Pumpkin Patch. Henry and Ben have been every year, but this was the first for a grandad and Grams!

Day! Beautiful

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The fragrance of mulberry and eucalyptus trees, the roar of the jet overhead, cotton white clouds, cool air, birds singing...ahhh...the first fall of leaves from the trees...the leaf blowers from the gardners, traffic whizzing past...ahhh...yes...beautiful, all of it!

Three Little Men

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Henry

. Benjamin

Wyatt!

And then there were three!

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A truly bless-ed event! The birth of a new grandson! Welcome Wyatt! and congratulations to mom, Jill, dad, David and new grandparents, Oma and Opa Smith!!

Summer reading

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Car trips, plane trips, and lazy poolside days allow for good reading. And a few IBooks which are rather difficult to photograph! Agnes grey, and Jane Eyre and just completed Sarah's Key.

Summer Days

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It feels like the end of summer, though we still have several weeks of actually summer, and the month of September, which never is able to make up it's mind whether it wants to still be summer or give way to fall.
But tomorrow begins the week before school at our house. And though I'm not a teacher, my husband, Duane is a full blown professor! So, tomorrow the week of meetings and school prep begin. So, in recap, as the assignment from teachers on the first day back to school, write about your summer. ...May

DISNEYLANd....we took Henry for the day! Very Fun!

And painting, took my first of a few painting lessons, from the Master!

And June...a girl trip to Texas! Lorie and I flew to Texas to shower Jill with baby to be love! Which also, gave me the opportunity to see extended family!

And some gardening...

Travel Log Continued

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Though Seattle is a great vacation destination, there really was purpose to go to Seattle. A wedding! Carissa and Robert tied the knot on Saturday July 9th. Carissa being born on her grandpa's birthday, chose to be married on her grandparents wedding anniversary!

There was the usual pre-wedding activities, lots of food, and family times, laughter, great conversations and just hanging as a great big extended family, and as most families, from all parts of the Country!

Chuck and Chris's were the greatest the host and hostess and their lovely home perched on a hill overlooking part of Puget Sound and Vashon island, gave the perfect setting to pass the time, gazing at the ferries crossing back and forth across the water. It was mesmerizing!

And of course the paint brushes had to come out!

A little jogging fun! A little photog fun! And even some street fair fun!

Travel Log Day 2

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July 7

Don't you just love logging trucks! ('...if you need logs over there, and you need logs over here?....)

Oregon morning, the fragrance of trees and clear air, and ruggedness. It was quiet this morning as we left Roseberg and pointed our car North. North, The Northwest, unique in it's appeal. The magnitude of trees, fir, and cedar, oaks, and poplars, giant towering pines line the highway as sentinels as we drive. The highway leads us over creeks and rivers, wide and small, it cuts through mountains and across the grassy flat lands. Green, unending varieties of green, and blue sky, a few white innocent clouds, the landscape continues to change as the hills begin to drop away to more open plains. We pass through the popular towns quickly, Albany, Eugene, Salem, so different than the elongated state of California. And finally, my home town, Portland; the great Willamette River meets the greater Columbia river, a port town, though miles from the Pacific Ocean, ships of all sizes lining the banks, only to be out done by the numerous bridges and tall skyscrapers.

Today it is well known for being 'green', and eco-friendly; the top city in the nation for bicyclists, (really? Don't you know it rains 360 days a year!) But I sense the pull of roots here. I haven't lived here in over 40 years, yet I feel it, the 'I know this place', but, I really don't. This is not the town where my memories of childhood rest or where my grandparents lived; with the commotion of cars and people everywhere. My memories of this town are of a by-gone era, of playing outside until dark, running the streets with neighbor kids, of the basement and horse corrals, the braying of Henrietta and an apple orchard! Wait! I love it!

We have to wait for a 'lift' bridge!

So cool! Over the bridge and into Washington, Seattle here we come!
We arrived in Seattle, blue sky and fluffy white clouds! The Seattle skyline! Beautiful! Such a gorgeous city.

( okay it was over cast the first day, but it was still incredible! Writers license!) Found our hotel, after driving in circles and then off to Chuck and Chris's! I've not been in west Seattle, and it IS actually west of Seattle proper! So, ok, I think I could live in their house, at least in their basement! A view!

Incredible, over looking Vashon Island and the ferry terminal below, mesmerizing to sit on the deck and watch the ferry's and barges going by. Fortunately, we had water view places at the dinning room table!

A full day, good driving time, left Roseberg about 9 am and checked into our hotel a little before 3pm. And the gas prices for the day and a half trip? A little more than my grandparents, $59.24, more like $157.02! and our hotel room? Not $8.00, but $134.02. Does it count if that includes a full breakfast?

(sorry can't figure out how to rotate the photo!)

(side side note...one of the extras is 'Disneyland' $5.00!!!!!!)

Travel log

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July 6, 2011

TRAVEL LOG

Carrisa and Robert's wedding

Bakersfield to Seattle

Last minute packing. Always seems to be one more thing I want to put in my suitcase. Recalling from the many trips I have journeyed the corridor of highway 5 or on more leisurely trips highway 101, memories float unconnected through my mind keeping me from sleep. My grandmother made this trip many times in her life, some with my grandfather, other trips made as a widow, some
and in later years by jet airplanes or motorhome or by train in the accompaniment of my mom and step dad. An unusual accomplishment for a woman born in 1903 and never drove a car in her 92 years. She loved to travel. And at times she kept a journal. I have two of her travel logs. logging the mundane items of travel, what time they left, how many miles, what she and my grandfather ate, what city or town they paid for a motel to spend the night. Her notes show on one trip to Altadena from Cannon Beach, Oregon, fuel costs, with an oil change, $59.24; a hotel stay in Garberville was $8.00 plus $.25 for the jute box! I think they were enjoying themselves.

Never without words to describe the sites around the
country as she traveled or the people she met, I smile as I read her words.
So I am inspired to 'log' my travel...
With my mind restless and unable to quiet itself for sleep, I went to the kitchen for the token cup of hokt chocolate. Sitting in the dark sipping my sweet drink, finally sleep won over. A few hours of sleep before the alarm sounded at 4am. Road trip! The rewards for early morning travel.

Fields of sunflowers, no pictures taken because I am driving. Great white cranes flying in formation
The slight change in terrain, flat desert, to unending rolling hills only broken by olive gray oak trees.  Shasta Lake is full from the heavy snow melt of spring and summer and majestic Mt Shasta, wearing its garment of snow.

Each town we speed through seems to have it's own charm and beckons the wanderer within me to stop and mosey around. Each draws my comment, 'I could live here.'

It is Roseberg, we decide, where we will spend the night. Utterly unbelievable as we travel d own the highway, I am able to search hotels in Roseberg and make a reservation for our night's stay, all without a phone call or having to pull off and find a pay phone, or even worse driving to a hotel to find a no vacancy. Twelve hours later we pull into the quaint town, nestled against the hills and check into our hotel room. We enjoyed dinner from a local bar and grill; mine, salmon with pomegranate glaze, rice pilaf, with dried cranberries, summer vegetables! Yum! Duane ordered filet with crab and asparagus spears and salad, with, 'to lick the container clean', gorgonzola dressing!
A glass of wine on the balcony overlooking the Umpqua river, and a swim in the pool to finish out the day!

I wonder if my grandparents even had air conditioning in their truck...I highly doubt it.

Home

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The saying, 'Home sweet home' is a truism. It is the simple things which make a home welcoming. The obvious, sleeping in one's own bed, the familiarity of the known, are what we usually think. For me, it is the wide open valley as I come out of the mountains, the fields which lay along the sides of the highway, filled with grapevines, and the cotton fields, the scent of freshly cut alfalfa, the cows and horses dotted against the golden grasses.
The fragrance of gardenias as I walk up the path to my front door. These are just a few of the pleasures of where i call home!

Happy Mother's Day

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Truly blessed to call you Mom! I love you!

Easter treats

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Hope on the footstool

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Ladder

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Man on ladder a good thing

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Man on ladder working a very good thing

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Hanging the drapes

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almost done

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Ta! Da!

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Great way to reuse my old drapes!

Anticipation

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Spring time and the hope of what will be, 'will be' (had to break out into song)

Zucchini Bread gonna be

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The dipping of the brush

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The passing of the torch! or at least playing with some paint! An evening for grandad to paint with his Henry! Thanks Lorie for the fun evening!

Such concentration

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Boys and Paint

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And a photo op!

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And cuteness!

Cute as bug to the bug store!

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A fun trip to the bug store.

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One of the cutest bugs

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Insect LORIE?

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Cutest bugs checking out the ladybugs

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The bug dance

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Scooter time for the littlest bug! Wheeeee!!!

St Patty's Day

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Corned beef and cabbage, carrots, green applesauce, what's more to want when you have dinner at the Trailer Park dinner. Most years we join my folks for the traditional St. Patrick's Day dinner, with the hall decked out in all things green! As with all the holiday events, everyone dresses in style, and though most go for the fellowship, secretly they are wanting the door prize and the most coveted prize of the evening, the $50 hat. The hat, is which ever holiday being celebrated, is decorated with 50 $1 bills! So far, I have not won the hat. How much money has been spent on raffle tickets to get that $50 hat! (insert picture here, which I don't have :/ ((what kind of blogger am I?)) During the last event of Christmas, the McKnight table won most of the raffle tickets, 'cept me, :( but that is usually my case! grissel, (secretly, the prizes...weeeelllllllllllll......) Being the lucky day of St. Patrick's Day, and what did he do? rid the island of snakes or something important, I too was lucky, though not a lick of Irish in me, but my step-dad is, so maybe that's where my Irish comes in, I digress...I actually won, the drawing, not the raffle of course, but the dinner table raffle! The only 'mcknight' to win this evening! And what did I win? Hmmmm, the humor of this doesnot elude me....

Lucky bamboo!

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One up!

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Superbowl Sunday! I truly am one of the guys, loving me some football! Enjoy watching the game, though most of the time Superbowls are super boring, the only worthwhile event are the commercials. But there are times I am required to be girly. This years superbowl Sunday was one of those times. Being invited to a friends house...in Rome, you get my drift. Now, I am no stranger to crafts, craft days, craft events, craft-or-ama, I have a spent many an hour 'crafting' in my younger years. However, I finally after many hours have realized crafting is not my cup of tea, just pour me tea, don't make me craft my own tea. I did fake it a lot when crafting with friends...just feign you don't know how and they come right up beside you, snatch it out of your hands, 'fix it' and TA DA! I created something! I really could brag about it! Ha! Back to Superbowl Sunday...a craft was proposed, hmmm...watch football or craft, duh, no brainer there, but alas, I'm with those who like to craft...hmmm, gulp, sigh...yeah, we could go to Michael's! :/ I really said that. We/I bought yarn and felt and picked over and commented on every bird in the aisle...meet up with my daughter, she was so proud of me...purchased our supplies and off we went to craft! I did craft AND I did finish the project...it now hangs proudly in my hallway! It was a good ole craft time...laughter at my mess, fun with friends, and the football game was played, and we ate and laughed some more! Thanks Debbie and Lois for crafting with me!

February

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My life has been boring this last month! Just the usual January, work, come home and put my winter uniform sweats on and crawl under a blanket and zone out in front of the TV! I know you wish you had my life! There was a pinochle party, and I might have been more excited to post if I had won another trusty medal! Alas, I did not. I had dinner at a friend's house in which we talked way past our bedtime, I just didn't think she was that tired! And I didn't take any pics that nite either...I have seen my two favorite grandkids so, I will post a couple of pictures of them and maybe just some random ones just for fun!

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40 Years

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We just celebrated 39 years of marriage. A long time, a life time, seeming very long when you say 39 years, but real time, seems very short. The other night, after celebrating with friends New Years eve, and we were snug in our bed, I brought to remembrance, our New Years eve 40 years before. Newlyweds, we had been married two weeks when we packed our Pinto and little trailer and left my mom's house the day after Christmas, and moved 5 states away, to Duane's home place, Tennessee. Though I had lived in many places in my 18 years of life, never had I moved from home. The 3 month apt living with girlfriends after graduation doesn't count. And I had not lived any place but the West coast. With much anticipation we drove. I documented our 5 days of road-tripping on a scrap of brown paper. An excerpt from the trip, outside of Albuquerque, I wrote, "I'm so thankful that the Lord brought us together--it's even better that we could drive across the Country together as man & wife". That just makes me smile. New Years eve, 40 years ago, we drove into Duane's grandparents place, fondly named, Vanatta's knob. Not much of a place, sitting on the corner, at one time you could probably see the River from the front porch, but a giant bridge redirects the view. A small, cigarette smoke filled house, two bedrooms, one bath, country house, with a front porch and gravel drive. This was our home for the first month of our new lives together while we looked for work and a place of our own.

2010 a Year in Pictures

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A year in review through pictures has been fun. It was a year of travel. A wonderful trip to Texas to see David and Jill, we reconnected with extended family in the area, laughed and made good memories. Many weekend trips to see friends at the coast, the desert, and places in between. Weddings and baby showers, museums, rodeo's and CAMPP times! It has been fun and exhausting all at the same time! I loved every minute of it!

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A trip to Texas-land to visit David and Jilly! How great it was to spend time in their home, sharing in their lives, peaking into life in Texas!

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Wii fun!

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Family time with Curtis and Cindy

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Need I say more?

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Waiting for her 'love' burger and the running of the bulls!

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The running of the bulls! Make that the stroll of the longhorns!

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Boots!

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A trip to the Stockyards, a tourist must! Very fun!

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Beautiful Ft Worth

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Birthday celebration in Ft Worth! Happy Birthdat Jill and Me!

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A day trip into Dallas, the aquarium, and Jill's old stomping grounds, a drive through the elite neighborhoods, and a stop at a great burger place! Watermelon tea! Yum!

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A quick trip to the coast, a drive along Old Creek Road...

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The wild sweet peas kisses the air with sweetness

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I love doors...this one in caucus

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A weekend home, the time had come and we had finally decided on a color(s) to paint the living room...the ceiling about did us in!

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Ta Da! And the living room is painted!

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Finishing touches on the living room paint over! Move over David Bromstead! It is nice to have my own resident artist!

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A trip to the coast along hwy 58, a different kind of wildflowers. I thot they were photo worthy

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A Year in pictures

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A year in pictures. Thought it might be fun to post a few...which has turned out to be a lot and I'm only part way ...

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California real estate crash!

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A time for painting

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I think Henry's guilty of taking the toy...

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And pool time for summer fun

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A trip to the Huntington with great friends