Holly had some time off and wanted to go somewhere.  After batting around a few ideas, she settled on doing a couple of days at Great Wolf Lodge near Dallas.  Ivy even invited her friend Hanley along.  I’ve seen ads for this place, and even checked it out online, but I was a little skeptical […]

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For a long time, I’ve suggested we get some chickens for our yard.  Holly always kind of dismissed the idea.  I never really pursued it very strongly.  Mainly because we had a dog who would love to eat those tasty roving yard meals (Rusty).  So we did not have chickens.  But Rusty died in 2017, […]

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After many headaches, I’ve finally got this blog back on-line.  My account with HostGator had been hacked multiple times to the point that Hostgator shut our account down and forced us to clean it ($300 or so).  Instead of getting a ‘professional cleaning’, I opted to just close out the account all-together and start over.  […]

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Well, since we’re pretty much living in a constant state of remodeling, let’s give Ivy’s room a makeover too!  She had been complaining that it was like a ‘kid’s’ room, and that is true with the cartoony animals I painted on the wall when she was a baby.   So with a lot of sweat, frustration, […]

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Impact Church contacted me one day with an extraordinary surprise – Ivy had been selected as one of a handful of kids they would send to a week-long summer camp near Austin.  It was all paid for and everything.  All she had to do was go!   I had been wanting to send Ivy to a […]

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4th grade is done!   Thanks to Ray and Becky for going to the dinner and show with us!  Ivy’s school play and then dinner at Cafe Lux afterward.  That was the best chicken salad sandwich I’ve ever tasted!   Super cool that Ivy won a bicycle, too!!  Kids with perfect attendance were in a drawing for […]

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2 1/2 years later, we finally completed Jane’s house move.  By that I mean we finally eliminated the remaining pieces of furniture and stuff that did not get moved to the new house.  All of this went into storage for awhile, with the anticipation that it would sold or donated somewhere.  So today was that […]

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This particular blog actually took place over many months.  I never knew exactly when to start writing about it because it was so multifaceted and long-term…so exhausting….experience.  So I just waited until we were finished and then put this blog post together.   Oh my, what an adventure.  We survived Hurricane Harvey with no damage at […]

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Barbara Bush died today. 🙁 What an awesome women she was! Even though she was born in NYC, she seems have fully become a strong, tough Texas woman. She got married to George while still a teen (17 or 18, I think) and raised 6 kids together, with a husband and two of her sons […]

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