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Slow! Turkeys crossing!
These guys better watch out! I think the season is open!
We had our usual turkey with all the trimmings yesterday, having joined the Cone clan (our daughter-in-law’s family nearby). When we shared with each other about what we’re …
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Of snow and orchids
While Roy was in Florida, not quite in shorts and a tshirt, but almost!
we had 5 inches of snow in Indiana!
Roy’s back home now, and after a couple of warmer days and some rain, the snow is gone! …
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For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies
We were on our way home from Grand Rapids, Michigan, and were treated to a magnificent sunset – these 3 snapshots were taken from the car window as we tootled along the freeway within a span of 20 minutes max. …
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Oh, where are my glasses?!?!?!
My daughter-in-law, Kimia, and I like to walk together when we get a chance, and she has a lovely 3 mile walk paced out for us on the Culver Academy campus where her hubby and our son, Josh, teaches. We …
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Janet Varner, dear friend, has passed away
Janet Varner. Friend, missionary colleague, a woman whose heart beat for Central Africans, a person who could tell a story with a flair to make you laugh yourself silly, a follower of Jesus, and a warm, welcoming soul who was …
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Keeping up with C.A.R.
We’ve been able to skype (a computer to computer free system or a computer to phone call for reasonable prices) pretty regularly with Benoit, the CEFA (ag farm) director, as well as touch base with friends at Gamboula and in …
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On Walden Pond
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry Thoreau, Walden
In wildness is …
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Autumn in New England
I LOVE the contrast, greens and red and brilliant orangeyellowpeach…
Laugh.Out.Loud!
Art & Nancy’s (our first 5 days’ hosts) backyard! 
Dan & Karen’s (our second 5 days’ hosts) backyard, complete with deer in the meadow and the morning sun slowly …
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Roots!
Roy has connections back to the Mayflower, a certain Mr. Richard Warren, so off we went to see Plymouth Rock (not actually the rock they anchored to, but as the write up says “not a bad idea to have our …
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Raking up the leaves!
Enjoying the fall colors means you get to clean up the yard when the colors fade,
but Emrie the helper wields a mean rake!
Sorry I didn’t get the picture of her laying down – of course I couldn’t get …
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