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You almost can’t be too careful redux

by Kathi D on November 3, 2008

Due to my extreme laziness busy-ness what with puppies hanging on my pants legs and chickens roosting in my hair and all, I have decided to start a New Tradition (until I get tired of it) of posting reruns Greatest Hits on Mondays. I believe I will call it, er, um, let me see  . [...]

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This explains a lot

by Kathi D on July 24, 2008

I unearthed a document recently that is as old as I am (238 years). I must say, it answered a lot of questions that had been simmering at the back of my mind my whole life. One, was I really left on my parents’ doorstep, wrapped in a potato sack, like my brother Bob always [...]

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Mom and Dad were industrious types, like their Irish-English ancestors before them. (Unfortunately, they became the end of the family line in that trait.) So it didn’t surprise me that they spent half a day picking grapes at a pick-your-own-grapes place shortly before I arrived for a visit. It didn’t even surprise me that they [...]

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Mom got her first pedicure after she was in her 80’s, and she liked it. Who knew? She even had a favorite manicurist, David, who owned the little nail salon with his wife. I don’t have the right photo to accompany this story, so you’ll have to imagine the scene as I took Mom in [...]

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