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Sun on Your Face

It really feels good simply to feel the sun on your face. t’s probably a good thing that we are not allowed to burn leaves anymore.     But burning leaves in the fall  was one of my favorite things.  You didn’t have to pay anyone to rake your leaves, there were plenty of volunteers as long […]

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Honeysuckle and a proposed compromise

One of my favorite things starting in early spring is the smell of honeysuckle.    To me honeysuckle smells like summer, like riding to the pool on my bike, like drinking Koolaid and getting a mustache,  and like a baseball that was fouled into the deep honeysuckle brush that you can’t find; although you can easily […]

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Blue Skies in The Fall

One of my favorite things is blue skies in the fall.  It just seems like the sky is a purer deeper blue that attracts your attention.  If I imagine that  am laying down on a bed of leaves and gazing into the blue fall skies, I can  smell the musty leaves and hear the rustling […]

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Some Of My Favorite Things

Here are some of my favorite things: pancakes, snow days, clear fall days, The smell of burning leaves, shoveling wet snow at night, falling asleep on the couch, the sound of a cat with their motor running, mornings, the sound of a lawn mower in the distance along with the smell of fresh cut grass, […]