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Today I am 47 years old.

I am a woman

wife

mother.

I am a daughter

sister

auntie

friend.

I love the outdoors

nature

the moon
and yoga
and my canoe.

I like the smell of

evening scented stock

old fashioned roses

and onions frying in butter.

I listen to classical music,

Josh Groban

Randy Travis

Fleetwood Mac

Simon and Garfunkel.

I read mostly

non-fiction

home school books

and nature stories

(like Thoreau)

I love to eat

SOUP!

and to drink

red wine.

I adore my family.

I have 1 husband

4 daughters

3 sons-in-law

3 (soon to be 4!) granddaughters.

I love my life.

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It is wicked hot outside.

Supposed to be this hot for at least another week.

Too hot for weeding the garden even.

Nothing to do but play chess on the deck.

She is quick to learn.

Knows a Rook can only move rank and file.

Can anticipate the L shaped moves of a Knight.

Loves sliding her Bishop on the diagonal.

It was a nice afternoon.

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Winter.

Lots of sunshine.

No need to slather chemicals all over your child

so she won't get eaten by bugs and burned

by the sun.

No spiders and flies in the house.

No sand on the kitchen floor.

Just pure loveliness.

Winter.

(I'll bet some of you living in the US during this heatwave would agree.)

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I have been thinking that I should slow down.

Stop working so much around the house.

Stop filling each day with a to-do list that leaves me exhausted.

But then I just do the same old same old day after day.

Today I awoke with an achy back.

That didn't stop me.

I was out weeding the garden.

I just had to. It was super windy and I

knew there wouldn't be any mosquitoes.

An hour later my hips, knees and elbows hurt.

I could do no more.

I had an Epsom salts bath.

I did an hour of gentle yoga.

I had lunch and then read my

Taproot magazine.

I took a leisurely walk with Athena.

I sat on the hammock swing.

I guess if I won't do what I know to do

my body will make me.

Some lessons are harder to learn.



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We are back from a busy long weekend.

It started with a birthday party in the city.

Time to put on a pretty dress and gloss up her lips.

Later we headed back to our home town for a reunion of sorts.

We don't all get together very often.

Lately it has been once a summer.

It is so nice to catch up.

The neices and nephews are growing so fast.

It is more noticeable when you don't see them often.

Good kids.

My sisters.

My mother.

I like them.

Each is unique.

My brother.

Quite the character.

Red glow in the dark pants.

Really!!

My girls were there too.

Of course, they are the best.

My son,

 ( I like to call him that although he is my

son-in-law)

Great guy.

It is so nice to be back home.

Even Paul agrees.

We love seeing the people

but we hate the travel/hotel bit.

Although she did love the jet tub in the room.