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Well, G's son and his wife have safely arrived in Arizona, their new residence.  G. worked a lot to help them get ready the few days prior to their departure.  Hopefully we'll be able to visit them and my brother and wife in the Vegas area next summer.

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I like these quotes about birthdays that I came upon recently... I dedicate them to all the lovely Leo's who have touched my life!

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." --  Madeleine L'Engle

"I don't believe in aging.  I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun."  -- Virginia Woolf


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I think this website is a fun time:  one.word

Also fun, my Mom did a couple of sets of ABC lists as well as Aunt Sue.

G.and I enjoyed a couple of days in Vancouver with my parents, celebrating Mom's birthday.  On her day, we Max'd, shuttled, trolleyed, and trammed-- 3300 feet in 3 minutes up to OHSU with the hospital workers and visitors..  If we'd ( Read more... )

Arts and Letters is the name of the Facebook application I have created but I only have one thing in there.
Barack.
Canned spinach. I like it.  Grew up eating it and still like it.
Dad, aka Jim Cottingham took the photo of the paperbacks that appears on this entry.
Enjoying the free hot tub G. has fixed up.  I like it best at night because of the ( Read more... )

In an email from my brother (who drives for a living) in Henderson, Nevada:

"Sis. I was out driving in it and the local streets were like 2 foot of water...fast moving asphalt rivers.  I've heard about it before but never seen it till today..flash floods...1 inch of rain in 20 minutes did it. That's what them Levy's are for and off our patio is ( Read more... )

This is the golf course I see from J. and K.'s back patio here
in Henderson.  Coincidentally, my parents home in Vancouver, 
WA, borders a golf course.  I am getting used to Palm
Trees. They are everywhere.   However they are not native to 
Nevada.  They were brought here from California.


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The rains have come after a few summery days.  When I first started this journal I held an intention that I would not regularly record the weather.  My thinking is changing about this.  We all mark our lives by the clouds, the color of the sky, how hot, how cold, how wet, how dry and when it snows, oh when it snows...  It's pretty much the one ( Read more... )

Photograph by Jim Cottingham 
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