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STRENGTH THEN SPORT
Thanksgiving is over and it is time to get down to business with some unsolicited advice….. for all of us! I have spent the last 2 months nursing shoulder injuries – first my left shoulder and now my...
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CANTALOUPE IN NOVEMBER?
I’ve been reading about the nationwide salmonella outbreak associated with cantaloupe. I haven’t had salmonella, but I know it is no fun and can be life-threatening! While I like cantaloupe, I don’t...
View ArticleVICTORIA IN DECEMBER
We just returned from our annual holiday trip to Victoria, B.C. This is the 3rd December in a row that we have made the journey by ferry and we enjoy it more each time. In 2021, it was our first...
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NOSTALGIA
a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia Merriam Webster It’s that time of year for...
View ArticleThe 12 Days of CHRISTMAS
The ’12 days of Christmas’ probably aren’t that meaningful to most Americans. In America, we usually begin celebrating the holiday as soon as we are done with Thanksgiving dinner and decorations come...
View ArticleFORAGING
Mio marito is back with a post on another one of his favorite activities… As the final week of the year is upon us and New Year’s just days away, it predictably gets me focused on planning for the...
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NO TO SKYDIVING
With apologies to all of you who skydive, skydiving isn’t on my bucket list. There are lots of reasons for that, but one of them is because I don’t happen to have a bucket list. I didn’t give my...
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“OUTSIDEY’
I came across an Instagram post recently that brought a smile to my face. : I’m not outdoorsy, I’m ‘outsidey’. I want to see beautiful mountains but from a roadside viewpoint. I want to eat a meal...
View ArticleTHE TIDES OF TIME
I’ve been a University of Washington (UW) Husky fan for as long as I remember. At times I am just a fan; at other times, I am a fanatic. This year I was a football fan fanatic and I was in good...
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The Simple Picnic – Anywhere, Including Italy
Mio marito is back……. A ‘picnic’ is not the best topic for the middle of January, but it is something to consider adding to your ‘24 goals or ‘intentions.’ A picnic doesn’t need to be a major outing,...
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AN AFFORDABLE ADVENTURE – LAKE COMO
Mio marito has returned with a travel post….. Our granddaughter recently flew to Milan to meet her Italian boyfriend for a fun, but short visit. She sent photos of their cross-border day trip, by...
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THE AGE THING
Now and then I find myself getting on my soapbox about the ‘age thing’. I am against all of the ‘ism’s’, but the one I have personal familiarity with is ageism, which is: Prejudice or discrimination...
View ArticleBIG SUR AND THE JADE STORY
Mio marito is back and ‘California dreamin’. We have moved around many times in our lives, but don’t regret anywhere that we have called ‘home.’ We should be considered true Pacific Northwesterners...
View ArticleThe ‘Clambake’ Pebble Beach Style
Mio marito is back with more ‘California dreamin’ The enormous size of California from north to south is apparent when you consider its mileage. The entire West coast highway of the U.S. is a total of...
View ArticleBELOVED VENICE
Mio marito is back with a post about one of his favorite places… There is no place on the earth that will leave you more jaw-dropping, awe struck and amazed than Venezia (Venice), on the northern...
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WOOD DRAGON
I have a number of interests and am, at best, a superficial dabbler in many of them. And I have many books to show for it! Note the books in my collage….. and I’m sad to say there are many more...
View ArticlePlease support…the RAZOR CLAM!
Mio marito is back with one of his favorite tasty topics…. Happy Super Bowl Sunday to you! We are only mildly interested in the actual game this year, but will join you in the annual 4 hr+ ritual of...
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INTERESTING TREASURES FROM ITALY….
Mio marito is back with a bit about some of our cherished Italian mementoes. You don’t hear it as much anymore but do you remember the term, ‘souvenir?’ The meaning: ‘’a thing that is kept as a...
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CAROUSEL OF TIME
Yesterday a child came out to wander Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Joni Mitchell, Circle Game, 1966 I love those lyrics!...
View ArticleBridges are not just ‘bridges’…
Mio marito is back with a bit about Italian bridges….be sure and check out today’s photo collage. The great appeal of Italy is its awe-inspiring ‘oldness’, meaning ‘really’ old. Certainly, Italy is a...
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