three little words

Of course everyone knows those three little words, guaranteed to make someone’s heart happy.  In the movie Roxanne ( a favorite still ) there is the line "Worms.  Worms mean something" . Of course, it’s supposed to be "words".But it makes me smile every time I think of it.  The other day at our house there were [...]

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‘Bye ol’ Blue!

So, I thought I’d put up a pic of the painting to date.The red is really bright ( good!) when the sun hits it, and I love that there is almost no blue left ( its my least favorite color ). I’ve gotten a little more of the trim done, but there’s still a lot left – the railings [...]

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weather switcharoo

Yesterday it was beautiful and sunshiny here, the nicest day we’ve had all week. I took this picture when we went for a short walk on the beach: Today however, is a different story. It was nice when we woke up, but quickly clouded over with a thick grey mat across the sky. Then, we got [...]

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escaped. again.

 I feel a little weird – four years ago we were in Seattle when the big fire roared through San Diego. This time we are really out – good thing.  We’ve talked to Lauri and everyone we know is safe at this point. I’ve been keeping track of the local happenings by watching the live broadcast [...]

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Sunny has gone into her “where is Richard’ mode – acting kind of lost and looking around for him.    For both of us, it’s going to be a long six days until he’s back.  Today, the real estate agent comes, and as of tonight we will officially have our house on the market.  About two months [...]

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countdown

It is now only a few days before we leave on the next trip to the north. I am so excited that Justin will be coming on Monday; to drive back up with us. I think we have decided to take the coast route up. It will add some time though.  Putting us to the [...]

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planless ( is that a word?)

This is my latest tack to take.  Just as we think we have the plan firgured out – it is upended. Yesterday the painter decided to show up afterall.  So he is doing the prep and painting of the outside eaves and trim. I expect he’ll be done tomorrow, if he doesn’t flake out.  Now [...]

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moving along……

I wish. I swear that each day that I walk I see another house on the market. Maybe ours will join them soon.Well there has been some progress in the past week.  I spent a couple of days doing yard work in the front – re-doing a flower bed and also a couple of big planter [...]

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tired.

Finally it’s Monday, a little rest is in order. Richard took half a day off on Friday to help me with the patio. We managed to get the first half of the patio slate set in mortar. I worked until one in the afternoon, getting about one fifth of it done by myself, but when [...]

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trip recap

So yesterday was spent catching up on life here. I feel so lucky that there wasn’t ‘work’ waiting for me ( well, there is, but it’s stuff that can get done next week).We went for a walk, and Sunny acted all goofy – happy to be back on one of her usual routes.  All of the [...]

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