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Happy Boxing Day!

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I trust you all had a good Christmas.  We had a quiet Christmas with my mother and older sister and their husbands.  Mark and I opened our gifts and we called my son and sang “O Come, All Ye Faithful” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”.  This tradition started when he was young and would sleep in on Christmas morning.  His dad and I would stand outside his door like carolers and sing him awake.  I still call him first thing on Christmas morning and sing him awake! Continue reading →

Christmas Eve, from Milwaukie, OR

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Merry Christmas, everyone!  We had a wonderful visit with my younger sister’s family in Klamath Falls, OR.  They showed us Rob’s and Nate’s school and the little theater where their family all performed in It’s a Wonderful Life.  Then my sister took us to the Dollar Tree so Mark and I could do our traditional $10 hunt for gifts for each other.  We don’t need much and we have fun hiding from each other in the aisles where we’re picking up little things so we have something to open from each other on Christmas.  We ended the day along with Lauryn and Rob watching the original black and white version of A Christmas Carol.  Continue reading →

4th Sunday of Advent, from Klamath Falls!

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Hey everyone, we’re back in Oregon!  We’re staying with my younger sister, Lauryn, and her family in their new/old home.  It was built by a doctor in the early 1900s, and amazingly a bunch of his stuff is still here – his doctor bag, his license, his class picture, etc.  The house itself is very beautiful and has lots of character. Continue reading →

Third Sunday of Advent

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We have hot and cold running water for the first time in a week.  Praise the Lord!  We took a shower in the bath house before church, and when we got home from church Mark worked on the plumbing and finally got everything running.  It’s lovely to be able to flush the toilet and wash dishes again.  In fact, the first thing I did when Mark told me it was working was get a big glass of water to make lemonade.  I was thirsty! Continue reading →

It’s been a quiet day at Grand Sierra

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I started out the day with another rumination in bed before getting up.  In Spanish, seven is siete, eight is ocho, nine is nueve, and ten is diez.  So we have September, which is the ninth month, October which is the tenth month, November which is the eleventh month, and December which is the twelfth month.  How come?  Even if you account for the fact that the new year used to begin on April 1 (hence April Fools Day for those who forgot and wished people a Happy New Year after the change), the months would still be off.  Anyone got a clue what that’s all about? Continue reading →

Sleep, blessed sleep!

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We had heard that Amazon was going to serve a holiday meal at 12:45 today, but we were scheduled to leave at 11:00 so we didn’t think we’d be able to participate.  However, when we walked to the break room to get our coats and lunch box, the meal was already prepared and the caterers were standing around waiting for people to come and eat it.  They said we could have it then, and we were so hungry we took them up on it. Continue reading →

From Salt Lake City, UT; Part II

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This morning we set the alarm and got up early for a day of touring.  The LDS church provides a free shuttle that stops at the airport and at our KOA and picks people up to take them to Temple Square for however long they want.  We went into the KOA office a little before 9:00 and asked them to call the shuttle, and in less than ten minutes it was here.  The driver was a really nice elderly man who was a little hard of hearing. Continue reading →