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My parents have filed a protest.  My mother claims that she did not sign any kind of release for her picture to appear in my banner, and my father does not remember saying I could use one of his photographs in my banner.  Can I help it that it’s a great picture of the expanse [...]

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I think my biorythms have been low this week.  The prom must have taken more out of me than I thought.  (I keep thinking I can still stay up until midnight.  Well, I can, but I feel it for the next week, and not in a good way, either.)  When I feel blah, I can’t even [...]

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Post Prom Post

Well, the prom is over and we lived through it.  My son looked fabulous; the kids all looked way older than they usually do, there were hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of prom dresses (some more elaborate than wedding dresses), and, as Mike kept reminding me slightly smugly, we have boys.  There were no [...]

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Glass Slippers and Burlap Sacks

Today I am so frustrated with my black debacle sweater that I am going to fly off on a tangent.  Please excuse me.
Andrew has his grade 12 prom on Friday.  My friend Linda (whose daughter is also graduating) and I thought we might wear our wedding dresses since we don’t get much opportunity to, and [...]

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Roots and Wings

Andy got home from his trip last night.  In chatting with the other parents at the airport before the flight got in, I discovered that we’re a little more willing to loosen off the old apron strings than some other parents.  Many of the parents were horrified that Andy didn’t call home at least once, [...]

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Friday Potpourri

I feel so naked without my camera.  (I think it’s having to come up with that extra thousand words.)  I am avoiding casting on Mike’s sweater (I don’t know why) and have cast on a scarf using Lynn’s as a guide.  It’s a reversible cable number, with four repeats of 6-stitch cable on each side.  I [...]

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Dog Dentist 1, Wool Stash 0

I have just returned from the veterinary college at the University, where I have found that Attie the retriever has a mild case of trench mouth.  This puts my standing as Dog’s Mother of the Year in jeopardy, and the upshot is that my yarn budget is being redirected towards a “procedure” for Attie’s teeth.  [...]

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Spring notes

Whether or not one celebrates the Christian Easter, spring is a wonderful time to celebrate rebirth and renewal.   Because we still have lots of dirty snow in the yard, it is hard to find green signs that indicate we’re still on schedule, but there is something in the air that lets me know that it [...]

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Of Cameras and Maritime Disasters

We just saw on the news that a small cruise ship has run aground off the coast of Santorini in the Aegean Sea.  Ordinarily this would be of little interest to me, except that Andy was supposed to be on that boat ship  next week with the high school travel club.  Oops.  My first thought [...]

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Breakin’ up is hard to do

I was at my regular Wednesday morning S & B, and the question came up:  How do you tell your hairdresser that you are “seeing” someone else?  C.  had been going to the same stylist for years, her kids had gone to the same hairdresser from childhood to adulthood, but C.’s dissatisfaction was growing with [...]

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