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State of the Blog
Every now and then someone in real life will tell me that they love my blog. I’m usually a little surprised because often I didn’t even know they knew about it or read it. I have my blog set to automatically share my posts on my Facebook page and I know a lot of my readers follow it that way.…
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Review: Bloxels
Today I’ll be talking about another product Timberdoodle sent me to review as part of Rebecca’s continuing education. This one is a build-your-own video game kit called Bloxels. The kit is made up of two main components: 1) the 13×13 plastic design board with little cubes of various colors, and 2) the downloadable Bloxels game app. Bloxels is a complete game…
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Winter Road Trip: Idaho to Arkansas
Living half-way across the country from my parents makes it hard to get together for holidays. This year we decided it might work. The week between Christmas and New Year’s was a convenient time to close the print shop and it gave us two holidays, one on each end of the trip. We had hoped to leave on Christmas Eve,…
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Christmas Lights Tour
Our Christmas traditions evolve from year to year. I try to keep an open heart when it comes to traditions, because circumstances can change and cherished traditions can go by the wayside. That being said, there are a few things my family likes to do every year when possible. One of those is to drive around and look at Christmas…
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Winter Solstice
According to the calendar, today is the first day of winter. I’m not sure what season we’ve been in the past few weeks but it seems to me that it’s been an awful lot like winter already. We’ve had snow… and ice… and frigid single-digit temperatures. A little bit of sunshine here and there, but mostly gray skies… and many…
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Review: A Spectacle of Glory
Usually when I share a book review it’s for a book I’ve finished. This time, I’ll admit, I have not yet read the whole book. That’s because it’s a daily devotional book, meant to be read throughout the year. Another thing that’s unusual about this review is that I don’t often use a devotional book. I know they are quite…
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December D’lights
The first weekend of December we participated in our small town’s Christmas festival, called “December D’lights.” The fun started on Friday evening in one of the shopping centers on the highway, with hay rides throughout the evening, s’mores over an open fire, games and activities in some of the stores, and I’m not sure what else. We didn’t manage to…
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Review: Extraordinaires Design Studio Pro
For the past few months I’ve had some time to work on developing my graphic design skills. This is something I’ve always enjoyed and I’m finding that it comes in very handy at the print shop. I’m actually being able to do some simple projects for customers now, which I find very rewarding. One of my first projects was quite a challenge,…
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Guest Post: His Star
My guest today is my dad, whose birthday happens to be today. He told me this morning when I called him that he figured this was his 55th birthday. Later in the conversation he allowed that he was “past 59.” Since I recently told you that I just turned 51, you can know that he’s a good bit “past 59.”…
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Flathead Valley
Since we had a long weekend last week Lyle planned a 2-day getaway to Flathead Valley, Montana as my birthday gift. We celebrated Thanksgiving Day (my actual birthday) with family and friends, and then left on Friday for our little trip. As is typical for November, the skies were gray as we drove but the northwestern Montana scenery is still spectacular.…
