Sunset outside our front door this evening, thought I’d share. :D

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Spent the weekend around the house, working on the yard and cleaning up the garage (somewhat.) I finally hung my Japanese summer bell (fish-shaped) and our birdfeeder — between those two, Ivan should have plenty to observe (and twitch his tail over) in the front yard. I unpacked one of “those” boxes, the ones that [...]

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Yep, real fortunate that we left all that snow behind.

Did I mention we also left the snow shovel behind?

And if we had power, I could go look in the garage and see if we have a shovel of any kind…

But I think I’ll just stay here and use the laptop for heat. Since, y’know, our [...]

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Try as I may to be sociable, I can’t help but relish a Sunday spent in my pajamas, reading, sipping tea and having deep conversations about life with Johan, lazing on the bed. (I was doing the lazing, by the way; he’s got the flu.) I’ll get around to showering eventually, before dinner surely. >>;;
I [...]

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Today was Day 1 in the Danielle-Takes-Back-Her-Office campaign. Having given all five SIX (technically) SEVEN bookcases a thrice-over, I culled out some books to take to Powell’s in March, and set aside another pile to skim through between now and then (to determine whether they’re worth keeping or not.)
The biggest obstacle in my view [...]

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When we got to our house last night (almost 10 pm), it was 11° F. I presume it only went down from there, such that when we woke up this morning and Jon tried to hop into the shower, the hot water tap (which we have to run for 4-5 minutes first, due to our [...]

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Thanks to all who commented, our house DID NOT burn down, and we’re allowed to come back home at this point, so we’re going to. [waves]

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