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My First Car Had an Eight Track Player

Bymichelle May 16, 2011July 27, 2022

My first car had an eight track player.  So, I stuck homemade mix tapes into an adapter that stuck into the eight track player and bounced up and down as…

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lensbaby | my home | photography | thinking out loud

Rainy Day

Bymichelle May 14, 2011July 27, 2022

We’ve had so little rain that it actually feels novel.  Where I would usually want to read or nap through it, I felt like I should sit on the front…

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books | Christianity | photography | thinking out loud

In the Margins

Bymichelle May 7, 2011July 27, 2022

You can find good stuff in the margins. I just finished my 9 month study group.  Let me just say that if you are at all interested in reading the Bible…

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photography | thinking out loud

Spirals

Bymichelle May 7, 2011July 27, 2022

I wrote my first book when I was in first grade.  It was Amelia Bedelia and I copied it word for word onto a Big Chief tablet. When I was…

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new to me | photography | sports | thinking out loud | ttv photo

Picking Sides

Bymichelle May 2, 2011July 27, 2022

We all want to be on a team somewhere deep down.  It’s why Facebook gets so ugly around election time, and how WWII army buddies can get together and pick up…

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cheap stuff | my home | photography | thinking out loud

Little Things

Bymichelle April 29, 2011July 27, 2022

I was tired and too uninspired to take a photo the other evening, so my daughter suggested my medicine cabinet. (The Vicks will be with you always…, day 115) I…

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bicycle | cheap stuff | family | lensbaby | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

I Feel Like Summer

Bymichelle April 27, 2011July 27, 2022

I feel like summer!  Do you? (sitting on the front porch, day 108) (day 111) (day 112) (played out, day 113) Is it possible?  Could I really be caught up…

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photography | polaroid | thinking out loud

Garden Boots

Bymichelle April 19, 2011July 27, 2022

Right now my garden is a “watched pot.”  I hover and find yet more bee balm sprouting up here and there.  Bee balm is a big mistake in a small…

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homemaking | parenting | shows | thinking out loud

Undefined, Lazy Time

Bymichelle April 19, 2011July 27, 2022

Once or twice a week, homework permitting, my daughter and I have the house to ourselves for a few hours.  We don’t do anything monumental, just watch a couple of…

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family | homemaking | parenting | photography | thinking out loud | ttv photo

Dragon Pictures

Bymichelle April 17, 2011July 27, 2022

Our refrigerator used to be covered with drawings of cats.  The last few years it’s been all dragons and knights and such.  For now anyway.  I’ve had someone’s drawings on…

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