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EMPTYING MY MIND

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💖 Hello! What's up? Too much thinking and not enough sleeping! It  dawned on me after a few very restless nights of getting hardly any shut eye that if I couldn't figure out how to shut my mind down, empty it, I would end up getting sick from night after night of sleep deprivation. I have had insomnia issues since I retired 15 years ago, but nothing like I have experienced lately. What causes this? Aging and all THAT entails? I think maybe in my case my circumstances are part of the problem. I had a preconceived idea about how my life after work would go. My husband and I had talked about it...a lot! We were married 35 years.  Then he became ill and died at the age of 58. I remarried and retired at the age of 55. but my second husband, Roger, had retired from many years of  army life and had travelled and been stationed  in many countries and states. He has one thing on his Bucket List: to never leave home again. So, in life we sometimes find that the adventures w

WINTER ON THE ISLAND

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WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES Up, down and around. That would just about describe my life lately. And I have to admit I have had a bad case of the blahs. It seems like every day there is a new zhappening here at the homestead. ("zhappening" is a word I coined: my last name begins with the letter "z" plus happening.) I do not think of my self as a jack of all trades nor do I want to be multi talented. After all, I have a husband, right?  Yes, I am talking about the unexpected events that just pop up and throw a monkey wrench into an otherwise peaceful, harmonious existence. Sometimes they can be little things that just plain ruin your day, like a mouse trap that snaps shut on your finger when you are trying to figure out how they work. Or leaving the grocery store,  feel a draft, look down and realize the only buttons done up on your shirt are the top and bottom buttons and you had wondered why the check out cashier guy wouldn't look you in the eye

CUTENESS

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Hi there, today I am celebrating CUTENESS!💖 Although the previous photos are cute take a look at our latest cuteness...granddog "Lucky". And Granddaughter's, Alyssa and Lynsey... And, guess who was accepted to attend Drexell University in Philadelphia in the Fall?  Lynsey! So, exciting days ahead for them both since Alyssa is in her last year of college in 2020.  Today is Sunday. All is well with Mom and I here on the Island. Well, we do have something not so cute going on in this old house by the sea. We have mysterious visitors inside our house.    They are very much present just can't be seen. We have been hearing noises and at first I pooh-hooed Mom's worried comments about  a rodent being in the house.  Then, while being in the bathroom, quite suddenly it sounded like a big hoopla was taking p!ace inside the one wall! It scared the living daylights out of me!  The loser was making pitiful noises. Needless to say, I was m