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Contest There, Only me here

Lindsay, who has designed some really cool blog templates, is having yet another contest. Whether you just want a makeover or are curious which of the blogs you have visited she has done, visit Splat Designs.

You’ll make it easier on her if you win rather than me, because I have no earthly [...]

Wordless Wednesday – Eastern Washington

Double click it and make it BIG. Taken weekend before last.

We Rant – Affordable Housing

Housing standards are important, especially in this day of mega storms and hundred year storms that come more often than predicted. I understand that people who have put a lot of time and effort into maintaining their home don’t want a junk trailer and piles of cars in their vision every time they step [...]

Life’s Realities

We, as individuals, do not, will not, and most likely cannot, genuinely like everyone, but we can try harder to find something we like in everyone.

Photo Hunt – Leon drinks it all in

Ferry terminal in Western Washington, Summer 2005. . . On one of the islands, but can’t remember which one. . oops. He gets lost in the views. I have so many pictures of him just “lost” in the moment.

Kudos, Leon

I’ve declared Fridays a day for Kudos on Shh-Speak up. (Why did I make up with no beginning cap, is it because I am sometimes just speaking and not speaking up?)

Some Fridays it will be about organizations, but today, it is a simple one to Leon for making one aspect of my life easier: [...]

Dear Mommy

My poem was written based on a news account in Washington, July, 2006. The law mentioned in this poem is still not well known, so has not proved, according to the link, very effective. We can make a difference by learning about Safe Haven Laws in the United States, all states are NOT the [...]

Wordless Wednesday

NaNoWriMo

Chris Baty posted this on NaNoWriMo on March 9,2007. I know to many it seemed like we, as participants, were more like lunatics, but by participating — and — donating — and — buying t-shirts, we helped make his fund raising a success while getting our own self-pleasure at letting the words just [...]

Life’s realities

One disappointment may ruin a day, but not a life. . .