A Quest for Qwest (the Last Snow Story)

My land line went out while I was talking to Arwen on the 22nd. I called Qwest on the morning of the 23rd and placed a repair request using my touch pad on my cell phone. They wanted to know if they needed to call ahead (yes, there’s a big dog & I didn’t know [...]

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Two Babies, One Big Day

This baby was a little overwhelmed by all the pretty paper.

“BA!” I think he was more excited that he knew the word for it. He kept saying it, over and over, “Ba! Ba!”

Starting to get the hang of it. Besides, he just got Duplos™! How cool is that? (love the bows!)

This kid is a “natural.” [...]

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Winter in Oregon City? Yes!!

First off, we never, ever get more than eight inches on the ground in Oregon City, much less down the hill in Portland. If you wait a day, the rains come and wash it all away. On the outside, three days and we’re back to pavement.
Friday night when I came home, the roads were almost [...]

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The Coyote (KI-ote)

(To get a better understanding of my world, you need to read this with a westerner’s accent. This is a story about a KI-ote, not a coyoté or a ki-yo-tee. Two syllables, not three. It’s just the way I talk.)

We’ve been having real winter here in the upper Willamette Valley. Snow and below [...]

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It’s Beginning to Look Like Christmas!

Just look at Murphy go! He wants MORE  snow!

Sam says the snow pack is lame. He wants MORE snow!

Don and Sam convinced Arwen that any hill is a sledding hill. Zephan will really like riding on the sled. Trust us.

He doesn’t look impressed to me. (yes, those are socks on his arms. My socks, in [...]

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I Am Thankful for

Teenagers and Teenage drama. Need I say anything more?

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