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We have taken to having our dinner outdoors.  It’s nice to eat under the shade tree, and whatever JD drops, the chickens clean up for me, so it’s rather win-win.  Plus dinner tends to coincide with what I call the “witching hour”.

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Being a mother is hard, and that is an understatement.  There is an ever-present anxiety that goes with being responsible for these little things you gave life to, a life which they seem on a constant mission to END.

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Everyone has moments in their life they are not exactly proud of, and I am about to share one with you.  Sometimes doing what needs to be done in life is not pretty, fun, or politically correct.

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I was talking with my sister recently, and she commented “we sure do know how to make some work for ourselves, don’t we?”  I laughed at the time, but that phrase haunted me for a few weeks.

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HRH is an aspiring movie director, these days.  My dad (aka Bapa the Sucker) bought her a Hello Kitty video camera.  She’s been shooting movies for weeks, now.  Mostly of Moose the Dog… or of herself.  Today, she killed a few hours with a couple of her friends.  The first part of her day was spent at their house and entailed shooting a few scenes from her latest blockbuster, “My Dog is a Vampire”.  I haven’t seen the final cut, but I understand there was lots of screaming.

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