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Everyday life

Oh, Summer

by Kathi D on September 27, 2010

The end of Summer has taken me by surprise. I blame the weather. It has been flaky and unpredictable and mostly cool, and while the fruit trees have produced way beyond normal, the tomatoes have sat green on the vines, mocking me. Until today. Yes, some of these are green, but since we had to [...]

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Instead of blogging

by Kathi D on August 10, 2010

I have been working on my new project, coming soon to your TeeVee screens (in my head). I have been making jam out of anything I find laying around the house. The dogs have learned to look lively lest they be preserved. Set your Tivo for Pioneer Kitchen. No, make that All About Canning with [...]

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A good day in California

by Kathi D on August 4, 2010

I’m sure this isn’t over yet, but hooray for Judge Vaughn Walker for getting it right. Judge strikes down Prop. 8, allows gay marriage in California In a long-awaited ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker says the ban on same-sex marriage violates constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. The decision is expected to reach the [...]

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What I learned (TeeVee edition)

by Kathi D on July 24, 2010

There are those who might think that watching certain TeeVee shows is a complete waste of time. (Like a cat singling out the most inappropriate leg in the room to rub up against, people like that often seem to end up married to people like me.) Although my readers clearly don’t mind wasting time, it’s [...]

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WHY, Y?

by Kathi D on July 14, 2010

This is going to put a serious crimp in my best karaoke performance. Y.M.C.A. Is Downsizing to a Single Letter One of the nation’s most iconic nonprofit organizations, founded 166 years ago in England as the Young Men’s Christian Association, is undergoing a major rebranding, adopting as its name the nickname everyone has used for [...]

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The Real Beginning of Summer

by Kathi D on July 9, 2010

It’s July, and what could that mean but the return of Margarita (Not Her Real Name) and her Italian Lover FlaVio (Not His Real Name) to our little end of the street? By mutual (and well-fought-out) agreement, they spend half the year South of the Border in FlaVio’s favorite spot and the other half up [...]

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What I learned

by Kathi D on July 7, 2010

First, somebody bad made me leave the island paradise and come home to the other paradise. We have fawns and multiple bunches of quail babies, along with unseasonably mild weather that is pretty much perfect, so I really can’t complain. Even better, we had visitors over the long weekend, the kind of visitors who come [...]

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Oh, that Barkley

by Kathi D on May 20, 2010

I needed this at 4 a.m. No wonder I couldn’t find it. I have been in a major funk the last few weeks, losing Bonnie, then being sick and miserable for so long. Thank goodness this guy makes me laugh at least ten times a day. Thanks to my husband who rats me out to [...]

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