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Posts made in September, 2009

Under 10 Minutes?

Posted on Sep 24, 2009

Under 10 Minutes?

  Hey, my dear Chickens! I just love all the messages and sweet things I am reading in my inbox, in the comments and seeing on the boards. WOW! I am just so touched! The most SINCERE Thanks for all your purchases of my first for sale item. You are simply the best! Hugs and Kisses!       _______ I made a video!! *HooT!* Okay, it took a while to master it, but I have proven to the world I can talk for less than 10 minutes! Mostly I wanted to prove to my hubby, Jack, who has heard me talk...

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Nature: You Scary!

Posted on Sep 21, 2009

Nature: You Scary!

  Minding my own business, puttering along on my riding mower. I got stung on the arm while going under a tree branch. I thought it was a wasp. They hang out in the cool trees when it gets really hot. It hurt like crazy, but I need to mow, suck it up chickie, be tough! I wasn’t flopping around having a seizure just yet. I kept mowing because I am  that  tough chickie!  Genius I am I kept circling the tree. Sting, Sting! Soon I started having muscle cramps, but I have had those before...

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Sun Expected!

Posted on Sep 16, 2009

Sun Expected!

  Gratitude List! 1. Thanks for all these great people I am meeting! I am upside down with happiness with the sheer creativity, generosity and smiling faces of the people I am meeting through the scrapbooking community! We are GREAT people! WHOO HOO! 2. Thanks For Incontinent Dogs.  Just when I think I can’t handle another thing to be happening. I am on the phone, rain is falling on my portable air compressor so I must run out to get it, and I remember something I have write down, the...

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Uh-huh! Road Trip

Posted on Sep 10, 2009

Uh-huh! Road Trip

  Jack and Nate driving route 66, and the cooler nights signaling the end of summer is near get’s me thinking of road trips.  Our family took one nearly every summer. My parents met, courted and married in Wisconsin. Their families lived about 6 miles apart in different towns so a visit to Wisconsin was always about taking “ the kids” to visit the extended family. Since we were an Air Force family that traveled all over and Dad got out of the military in Arizona, that is where we...

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The Shoe Tree on Historic Route 66

Posted on Sep 9, 2009

The Shoe Tree on Historic Route 66

  This is just too funny, since I posted about AJ being a pill and hopping on my computer, which he has been doing all day for 7 weeks now!  Now its afternoon and he hasn’t tried it! Not even a little. Isn’t that odd?  Still would love to hear from all you folks if you have ideas on how to train this ruffian of ours.  He will start again, this is for certain! __________ Gratitude going out to the lady in the Green Sedan who mimed to me my tire was low! You are a life saver! Also, more...

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Cat Rage!

Posted on Sep 9, 2009

Cat Rage!

  I have been having trouble  completing tasks lately, I will just blame the cat.  AJ ( Absolute Jerk) will not allow me to be on the computer. He had that scary near death urinary blockage a few months back, recovered,  and turned into the clingiest cat on the PLANET! Now I love that cuddly, purring, adorable cat who defers to my every word. I already have a husband who “ Uh-huhs “ in mostly of the right places. Its good to have AJ paying attention, doesn’t do a thing I say, but ...

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Everybody Bagna!

Posted on Sep 7, 2009

Everybody Bagna!

  Okay not everybody, imagine the garlic-breath! * Hoot!* My Hubby and Nathan left Friday to attend the Milroy Family Bagna in Okmulgee Oklahoma. How’s this for ironic…  Bagna Caudaor ( Bon-yah) is originally from Italy. Yet the Milroy clan is definitively Scottish. They look, act  and drink like Scots. Yet, every fall they get together and observe this obscure Italian tradition. The Milroy’s are Jack’s mom’s family. I guess I should call this the Corbel Family because it all...

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Sister Donna

Posted on Sep 5, 2009

Sister Donna

  I was transferred kicking and screaming to Catholic School when I was 10. I had to leave a slew of friends, all I knew, and the close by school to be bussed across hither and yon to go to school with starched nuns, black cloaked priests, and an entire school of kids that were already established in friendships. No room for me. I was the picture of misery. I didn’t want to start over. I liked the world I had. The glittery walls of decorated classrooms with wall to wall carpet, new desks...

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Happy Birthday Nate!

Posted on Sep 1, 2009

Happy Birthday Nate!

  Today Our Nate is 16! Happy Birthday Nay-Nay!~ Very few pictures survived the infant/toddler years, the hospital pictures were picked up by someone else by mistake. If Dillon found the camera he had it open! *guffaw* We did get this beauty to cherish…   Nathan 24 hours old, Dillon 3 years Nate 16   Photos: Jodiann Cates Paper: Buffalo by Jodiann Cates Frames: Photo Overlays by Tempus Fugit Star: From Christmas Wishes by JoyceDesigns  Font: Da Vinci...

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