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Camping in September
We got off to a late start with our camping this year, due to a really wet spring and a busy homeschool convention season. However, we’ve been making up for lost time this month, with the gorgeous Indian Summer weather we’ve been having. Believe it or not, we’ve been camping for the past 3 weekends in a row. Well, Lyle…
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With Every Letter – review
I thoroughly enjoyed Sarah Sundin’s Wings of Glory trilogy about brothers who fought in World War II. I was very excited when I heard about her new series, Wings of the Nightingale, featuring World War II nurses. I was even more excited when I had the chance to review the first one: With Every Letter. And it didn’t disappoint! You…
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The Eldorado Courier
My grandparents and their children moved away from Eldorado, Oklahoma in 1958. Many of our relatives still lived there, so my grandparents had a subscription to The Eldorado Courier (pronounced “Elda-ray-duh Coo-yer”) to keep up with the happenings in their hometown. Sometimes Grandmother would include a clipping from the Courier in a letter to Mother when I was growing up. When I…
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Writer’s Retreat
I’m not sure I dare admit that I spent this past weekend at a writer’s retreat, because then I would have to admit that I’ve officially started my novel. That’s exciting for me, but very scary at the same time because, you see, if I start it, I have to finish it, right? And if I finish it, you’re probably…
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The Home Demonstration Club Quilt
As far as I could tell, downtown Eldorado, Oklahoma only has two or three “inhabited” buildings. There is the community building, where we met for our family reunion Labor Day weekend… an apparently current insurance office… and across the street, the historical museum. All the other buildings are vacant. For such a tiny, dying town, the museum is quite impressive…
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Tater Mountain
When we came to the turn-off for the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma last Friday, Mother asked, “Do we want to take a detour and drive through there? We have plenty of time.” Uncle Carlton and I responded, “Yes!” in unison. Mother wasn’t quite sure it was the right road. “Yes, it is,” Uncle Carlton assured her. “See those…
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Labor Day Weekend
I had intended to micro-blog all weekend so my family (at least) could follow along with my adventures. But “the best-laid plans of mice and men…” and all that. I hadn’t realized there wouldn’t be a very good cell signal in the remote little corner of south-western Oklahoma where i spent the better part of the weekend. I did have…
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Mountain Sunset
Yesterday afternoon: And so… yesterday evening… We found a spot along the road with a good view of the western sky… The sun was beginning to go down… Lyle gets tired of me taking his picture all the time… so let’s try a self-portrait of the two of us together… Um… yeah… let’s try that again…. This time I cut…
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A Two-Day Adventure
A few weeks ago I was trying to think of what to get Lyle for his birthday. Anything he really needs or wants (that I could afford) he usually buys for himself. He’s been working way too hard lately, so I thought of a weekend getaway instead of a gift. First, I was trying to think of somewhere nearby… I…
