“This passage sealed the fate of the zombie leaf pile on Halloween night, and led directly to my decision to abandon the backyard fall cleanup”
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I haven’t posted to Shannon’s blog carnival Works-for-me Wednesday in a few weeks, and man, there have been changes. 1) it is now hosted by Kristen at 2) We Are THAT Family (a blog I read regularly and love) and 3) today she is asking us to repost a WFMW post that we really liked. [...]
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This recession thing has finally gotten to me. My three kids and I (and the cat, puppy, two rabbits and 17 fishy things) have been weathering our own personal recession for the last three years, the last six months being the worst. Trendsetter that I am, the whole world seems to be following in my [...]
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I found this excellent photo at www.paradoxoff.com/weird-logistics.html Sad to say, this is one of my family’s methods of storing: scrunch something that doesn’t deserve to be saved into something else that should be in the junk pile, slap a label on the outside and put it out of sight until the next clean-up. Could it [...]
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