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hydrological

Ming’s taking a long walk to a drainage ditch.  He wanted me to put a link to a map here but I don’t know how. We ran to the store for bell peppers and pasilla chiles for Mom, for the breakfast she made us.  Good potatoes. We wondered if WinCo and FoodMaxx were the same… Read More »

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eleven dollars for half a flat

Dad was watching a movie and I was painting butterflies with Mom and Ming so I had to listen to the movie.  “If I watch a movie about work, I think I should be getting paid,” I told Mom. We had lunch at a fancy Mexican seafood place.  My veggie burrito was okay.  I liked… Read More »

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Krishna

Ming: I didn’t think I’d be doing this this morning.  me: You mean sitting at a Krishna cult cafe playing Disney chess?

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disney chess at bliss

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friends

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a memory of ice

R (in the freezer): Can I have this? me: What? R: Not the ice cream.  The ice. me: We don’t have any ice. Ming: We don’t have any ice. R: It’s right here. me: What do you want it for? R: I want to put it in my drink. me: Okay, you can have it.… Read More »

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up up

Yesterday we painted butterflies with my bestie.  Then we went out to dinner and coffee where a momentous decision about a new book idea coalesced. Then we swam.  We had the pool to ourselves.  It was a dusk swim.  A huge moth came to us and drank from the pool again and again. I wanted… Read More »

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butterflies

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cute-bert

We bought some lovely olive bread from the grocery store.  We worked hard on the NDE brochure.  We had a phone meeting then Ming had another.  He’s doing thank you notes. Today we went to the health food store Lassen’s.  I had never been there in all the years of driving by.  It’s totally different… Read More »

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tin

We have some mints in a little hinged tin. It’s so cute. The mints are vanilla flavored and sugarfree. Ming never wants one when I offer when we’re driving in the car.  “You know what this reminds me of?” I asked him. “Those throat losenges.” “Altoids?” he asked.  “I think Sucrets,” I said. The tin… Read More »