Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope yours is going well, or maybe it's all done...I'm in charge of turkey breast, whole wheat rolls, pumpkin pies, plus I just made a salad for Kevin because he doesn't like green bean casserole. The turkey breast is in the oven and it's actually starting to smell pretty good. I made the pies and the rolls yesterday thank goodness, so I had some time to watch a little of Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. I mostly fast-forwarded through it, and certainly had the sound down for the majority of it but now I'm realizing that I forgot to watch the Rockettes. Maybe they'll be on You Tube? Surely...

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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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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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A Run in May

A Run in May

There are many other things I want so say about this month of May which is shortly coming to an end, but this run (slow jog) in particular is what I want to write about tonight. I'm going on a brief...

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Continuing on with May…

Continuing on with May…

Hmm, as usual the month seems to be slipping away. While I was trying to clean up the hot tub room at the beginning of the month, Les felt that the mos comfortable place to lie down was on top of...

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