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Christmas is not as much fun when you don’t have any little kids in your life. There is a big part of Christmas joy in the shopping of toys for kids, for the surprise on Christmas morning to find a filled stocking and a pile of gifts under the tree, and the thrill of watching [...]
Today is one of the hottest days of the year and my air conditioning is not working. It started making a funny noise yesterday and then it just quit. We don’t know who is the right repair company to call – I can’t tell who installed it in the first place and I don’t have [...]
The glasses that I bought two years are not the right style for me. I haven’t liked them since I first bought them. But since I am blind as a bat without my glasses, it is impossible to know what anything will look like on me until after I buy them and they put my [...]
Something I’d never seen before our trip to western Oklahoma: tire signs. Evidently the farmers take old tires and paint on the tires with big white letters “No Hunting” and then sling them over a fence post every hundred yards or so. Back home, we buy little rectangular white on black plastic signs from Wal-Mart [...]
Now that my sister has moved “out to the boonies” in Virginia, shopping is much more of a challenge for her. She’s used to be within 10-15 minutes of all kinds of stores and services. Now that she’s out in the boonies, she has to plan and consolidate her trips and limit the trips to [...]