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Writing prompt June 28th: Teapot.

Here is how I thought the song went:
I'm a little teapot
Short and Stout
Here is my handle and
here is my spout.
Pour in the water and
Tea comes out.

But this is how it really goes:
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The question:
29 What parenting technique do you differ from your parents about?My parents spanked and I wish I hadn't followed in their footsteps. I did eventually break away from that thinking and I'm glad I did. It's stupid to think you can love a child that way or ever be proud of yourself after doing it ( Read more... )

Cold again. -10F this morning. Nasty cold. Glad I don't have to do much outside - just chicken chores and take the mail out to the mailbox, fill the bird feeders out front. The grandkids are on their second day off from school. My piano lesson was cancelled yesterday because of the cold. I'm supposed to have it today instead. The sun is shining so ( Read more... )

After my big announcement that I was going to quit going through the boxes in the basement and just pack it all up in tubs and forget it, I ended up going through a couple boxes anyway.


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Why this interest in icicles? Whenever I look out the windows anywhere in this house I see the beautiful, mysterious things. Though years past I just took them for granted and we knocked them down whenever possible to hear the satisfying snicker/crack sounds they made instead of enjoying their visual beauty. This year I feel their presence since we ( Read more... )

I got one of those forwarded emails yesterday about growing up in the 70's and then another one from friend Priscilla about growing up in the 40's and 50's and it got me thinking about my own childhood growing up in the 50's and 60's. Here's my version of childhood - I think I was a little different than most girls of that age:


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