We spent Friday through Sunday near Woodstock, IL. (We came for a friend’s birthday party in Crystal Lake, IL.) I love the town square where the movie Groundhog Day was filmed. Woodstock stood in as Punxsutawny, PA. The opera tower where Bill Murry’s character, Phil Conners, jumps off of is right on […]

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We just haven’t used our second-story sleeping porch much. Recently we got rid of the extra furniture that was, more or less, being stored in there. A fairly new TV, beanbag chair, stacks of books. Now there is all kinds of room. I still have a ceiling-high bookcase, a work desk […]

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When I went out to water the hanging plants, my eyes immediately were drawn to the package at the foot of the door. It’s here! I grabbed it and headed into the house full of joy (yes, be happy for the little things in life.)
I slit open the box with a knife and […]

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I ordered my patio drip-irrigation kit today. I hate to put the burden of watering all my hanging baskets and flower pots on my deck and porch on my in-laws every time we leave town. They have enough to do feeding the cats and cleaning our cats’ litterbox.  It should […]

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