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Surprise Visit

Surprise Visit

Olivia popped home unexpectedly to bring some of her belongings before the semester ends.  She only has five days and then school will be out for the summer.  I can’t believe she will be a college senior next year. I snapped three quick pictures while she grabbed a snack before heading back to college. In […]

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Four Essential Crafts

Four Essential Crafts

The four of us who met this weekend each brought a craft to demonstrate to others.  We ended up with 4 great crafts to take home.  The first craft was a set of wine cork succulent magnets introduced by Terri.  First, you had to hollow out 5 wine corks.  That took a bit of digging […]

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Happy Birthday MC

Happy Birthday MC

When the Christmas cactus blooms, I know my aunt’s birthday is near.   Blast back to 1970 and you see me with the birthday girl, my aunt Merry Carol.  We are enjoying a summer watermelon at our house in Atlanta. We used to drive down to the State Farmer’s Market and get large watermelons for […]

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Surprise Party

Surprise Party

Davis’ fab sister and wonderful friends had a surprise birthday party for him.  I would call it Sweet Sixteen but then I’m not sure a manly man of sixteen would like that.  They had a great time playing video games, eating pizza and watching old videos that Davis used to make when he was about […]

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Happy Birthday Merry Carol!

Happy Birthday Merry Carol!

We made you a cake!  And now we are eating it since you are far away today.  Happy birthday to my Aunt Merry Carol. I think everybody needs a little pink frosting on their special day!   This is a yellow cake with cream cheese frosting and a red velvet crumb filling.   I scanned […]

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Shrek the Musical

Shrek the Musical

Davis was recently in his high school production of Shrek the Musical.  He was Papa Bear, a Duloc citizen and a soldier.  Here is his headshot from the play.   Here is Olivia, Quint, and Davis. Baby Bear and Papa Bear join other cast members.  The students practiced 5 to 7 days a week fore […]

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Two Highland Gentlemen Come to Thanksgiving Dinner #2

Two Highland Gentlemen Come to Thanksgiving Dinner #2

My brother and nephew donned their finest Scottish attire for our second Thanksgiving dinner today.  Our great, great grandparents came from Shott County, Scotland in the late 1800’s.  We are part of the Kerr Clan. After dinner we played some high stakes games with our favorite candy.  Who knew the lengths people would go to […]

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