Happy new year…

Happy new year…

Well...a new year. Here we are. Where did December go, you ask? Not entirely sure. Anyway, here's a dazzling photo of the sunrise way back on Dec. 22nd. I'm pretty sure Kevin must have taken the picture... And then there was Christmas...it all went OK, and here's just one photo from Christmas day, me with my beautiful new ukulele that Kevin gave me for Christmas, along with my festive headband from Randy. Kevin has his traveling guitar, and I know we we played a little bit on that day and I'm positive it was highly entertaining. Kevin also gave me a lovely strap for it. About that...

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I’m Grace Hughes, from Springfield, IL. Welcome to my world of fun, mostly involving cats and sometimes travel.

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Fall!

Fall!

So...things are all right. I opened up my laptop again after a hiatus, so that's something. Plus I'm cancer-free! So that's something else. Almost three weeks of not doing much of anything. Kevin...

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Happy Sunday and YAAAAY Tim!

Tim was going to set up my new computer and transfer the thousands of photos plus other stuff from old computer to new, and he assured me that it'd be an OK job and wouldn't take long...but then, it...

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Not the greatest summer…

Not the greatest summer…

It hasn't been the worst summer, I supposed, but not so great. The good news is that I'm now covered by health insurance again, but it's a fairly rotten policy with an obscene deductible. Plus of...

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Not the best summer ever…

Not the best summer ever…

First, June, my brother David died. June was kind of a rough month. Then, July...as I pulled into the Aldi parking lot on July 1st I got a call from one of my doctor's offices, saying they'd called...

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David, so happy

David, so happy

I've been looking and looking through the thousands of photos on my computer for pictures of David, and somehow I found this fabulous one. We were all at Shaw's Garden in St. Louis. He looked so...

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Once more, David

Once more, David

Vancil Funeral Home published David's obituary online on Monday and I burst into tears upon reading it. It just made it so real. It was a rough couple of days after that. Today it was published in...

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David

My brother David died yesterday. We was 64. On May 14th he'd been hit by a car while riding his little motorcycle and broke his leg. They put in two rods and some pins and told him to rest up for...

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