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Life after Work

I won! Almost!

Friday night John and I drove to Tucson because I was going to attend a spinning class and spend some time (and money, ha!) at the Southwest Fiber Festival in Amado. Like last year I was going to stay over the weekend with Elaine (former president of the AZ Federation of Weavers and Spinners Guilds) who also taught my class. John […]

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Vacation Day 2: Fredericksburg – Jamestowne – Williamsburg

It was still raining as we got up. Since our Days Inn was situated right next to a Waffle House we mosied right over for a breakfast of pork chops, waffles, and hash browns. The itinerary didn’t give any detailed instructions for the drive to Richmond, so we decided to avoid the freeway and stay […]

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Dinner at Rinku’s House

Tonight, Jessica, John, and I were invited to the Shah residence for dinner. It was the first time we visited in a long time and also the first real opportunity to meet Rinku’s fiance Yagnesh. In light of the recent loss of Mr. Shah, everyone had a good time and it was great to see Rinku […]

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County Fair!

Celia had told me that one of her riding students was going to compete in the Maricopa County Fair with her pig and I thought – why not check it out? Today finally was the grand day. John picked me up from the office at 2.45 PM and we made our way to the fairgrounds. […]

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Concert

Some time ago I told John, “Two people I’d really like to see live some day are Laurie Anderson and Lisa Gerrard.” An hour later he let me know “I got the tickets!” Turns out Laurie Anderson was going to perform with Lou Reed at the Chandler Center for the Arts as part of a concert […]

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Grand day out

We finally managed to drag ourselves out of bed early enough for a day trip. Our path led us first to Superior and Winkelman, a road we used to drive relatively often years ago, for its beauty as well as Maria’s Tortillas that we discovered for sale in the Winkelman general store. This time we […]

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Reading on

A few weeks ago I pulled a bunch of books from the shelves, and created two stacks, one that could go to the library right away, and one which I want to read one more time. Since then I’ve read a book about historic poisoners (think: Cesare Borgia), a biography of Isabelle Eberhardt, Der Vorleser from […]

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What on earth could this be?

Last year my mom brought this along when she came for a visit. She may even have told me then what it is for but I forgot. And she did, too, because I tried to describe to her on the phone and she can’t remember it at all. Before I toss it, I though… maybe […]

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Trip to Ikea

We had planned to make this an “away” weekend, but exhaustion overwhelmed us and we stayed home. John still working on sorting out all our audio files, me tinkering in the knitting and crafting departments. Today we visited Ikea to finally buy a replacement for our clothes drying rack. Would you believe that our metal drying […]

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Lunch walking again

Started walking at lunch again, with Karen, for half an hour, usually at 11.30. Today I also wore my blue tie-dyed silk shawl for the first time which I had dyed at the Fiber Frolic with indigo.

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