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We have electricity
Zan decided in the morning that she wanted to return to her house; living here as a refugee with her two cats was really stressful for all of them. After yoga, we helped her pack her belongings into the kei-truck and drove her down the road to her almost perfectly fine (slightly crushed and still…
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Typhoon #15
Wow, that was incredible. The biggest typhoon I’ve ever experienced. We went to bed last night knowing there’d be high winds and rain, so had battened down the hatches and let the cats inside for the night. They were nervous. First asleep in a pile near the door, as the wind picked up they began…
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Ashes to ocean
We interred most of Mom’s ashes in a pretty pottery urn inside a vault in shared plot with Dad’s at the cemetery in Ephrata, but we took a small portion to scatter. Is it grim that we saved some of Dad’s ashes all these years, just for this moment? On a hot sunny day, we…
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Fran Hill, 1940 – 2019
In Loving Memory Frances Elizabeth (Burroughs) Hill, 79, of Ephrata, PA, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 8, 2019, at Maple Farm Nursing Center. Fran was born on February 6, 1940, and graduated from Merchantville High School in 1957. She earned her R.N. from Presbyterian School of Nursing in Philadelphia in 1960. She married Phillip…
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Kittens!
I have never seen such tiny and determined beings. They came out one at a time, with very little fuss from Three. She licked their cauls off and they went right to work suckling. It is so different than her last experience – these little ones were definitely healthy and ready to be born. Maura…
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Wedding party
Jeannie McQuillin married Tim Enright today. I have a second father-in-law and a whole new set of relatives. Tod walked his mother down the aisle and later danced with her at the reception. It was a joyful evening for everyone – with lots of food and drink, a DJ who played a wide range of…
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Happy 2019
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25 Words
Every year since 2001, I’ve summarised my year in exactly 25 words. Here is how I saw 2018:A contented year at home with Tod. Got fat, got happy. Played with friends in the beauty of nature. Earned enough, laughed enough. Pleasingly present. And all the 25 Word entries I’ve written since 2001:2017Be careful what you…
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Light 2019
Since 2009, I’ve selected a theme to guide my year. Sometime, these words come straight to me like a shot. Other years I’ve dug around in lexical books to find the right one. This year I’m not sure why, but I selected LIGHT. To be honest, I was a little bit fearful about choosing a…
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Ume chutney
With so many plums on hand, I’ve gotten creative. There’s only so much jam you can make and give away when everyone else is also making it. It’s sort of like “zucchini season” in Pennsylvania when everyone is overwhelmed with their harvest. This is an adaptation of a British chutney recipe from Saveur. I localised…
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