Category: joanna irl
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Old Photographs
It’s funny how there seems to be a point in the lifespan of a friendship when you start to reminisce. Usually with photos. I’ve been wondering how long you have to be friends with someone (or if there are specific experiences you have to share) before you can really reminisce. Tonight, though, I was reminded…
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Fall Habits Die Hard
It’s a funny thing that you go to school every fall for the first 18 plus years of your life and then you wake up one day and school is done. I mean, not for teachers and professors, but school is different for them, too. It’s a hard rhythm to break and it’s enough to…
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Feeling Old
Sometimes I feel like I’m getting old. It’s mostly at the times when I get preoccupied with things like the fact that my baseboard are dusty and have cat hair stuck to them and it bothers me to the point that I get out the vacuum and clean the baseboard and then the stairs, too,…
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Signs I live with cats
I can tell there was a “party” when I was gone because there are piles of fur everywhere. I pick up said fur without comment (usually). Even though I keep my house clean, I have selective blindness for some pieces of trash randomly on the floor. That’s because my brain magically categorizes these as “toys.”…
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Arguing with the DoD
The housing manager for our community has just come and gone. He took a couple of photos and really was only here about five minutes, but we accomplished something important: I now have documentation that my house is badly insulated. Anyone that has come to visit me knows that the upstairs (especially the guest room)…
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Seattle Tales
J is in Seattle right now, and while his photos tell his story a lot better, I’d like to tell one for him. Last night was “Navy Night” at the Seattle Mariners game. The team invited a bunch of Sailors to attend in dress whites and get dinner, go to practice before the game, and…
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Thursday night…
Today was another zoo day. I wound up cleaning out the giraffe barn which is a lot more fun in practice than it sounds on here, I guarantee. Giraffes are very cool animals and I was entertained by the one that kept leaning around to look at what I was doing (from the outside of…
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Kaimuki Orchid Show
This weekend I went to the Kaimuki Orchid Society’s orchid show. There is huge variety in the orchid world, not just in color but in shape and size, too. There were blooms almost as big as my face, and blooms barely bigger than a pin-head. Amazing! Some of them are bred for color and some…
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The Wildlife is Winning!
But not for long… I made a nasty discovery today. Well, two of them. The first was that I went to check my plants, as I do every morning, and one of my container gardens now contains a large number of round, bright yellow mushrooms. They’re the kind that seem to grow from a sort…
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Kauai, much delayed
I suppose I owe you a blog entry. Since, you know, July is 3/4 over and I haven’t written one iota. Well, that’s not quite true. I did caption the photos over at my photo journal… but I didn’t even add a little blurb over there when I uploaded new photos today. Shame on me.…
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