retrospect

When my second brother ( I have 5) was about 2 or 3, he would repeatedly vocalize any action he was doing. You’d tell him to go hide for hide and go seek, and he’d put a couch cushion over his face and say “Hide, hide, hide, hide.” Not all the time, just often enough to make [...]

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I have 5 brothers

Say it with me people, Yikes.
The following is a list of injuries they have incurred in the past few years that I know of/remember. This list of course does not include the things they have blown up/wrecked/sunk/etc.

broken main wrist bone
blown off top of finger with a roman candle
black eyes
badly cut one finger and nearly lost another [...]

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Did you ever know you were my hero…

Ok, so first off, this is not a story I should be telling you. Secondly, if you get grossed out easily, please stop reading–that way you can’t complain to me when you realize that you will never swim in lake goodwin again.
All the characters will remain nameless. So apparently this happened like last summer or [...]

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Texas to Secede

So apparently the governor of Texas was quoted as saying that Texas could(not necessarily would) secede from the union, during a speech at a tea party rally yesterday.
Dear Texas,
Please don’t secede. If ya’ll left us, we’d be screwed.
Much obliged, Pearl.
In other news, I went wine tasting today. For my brother’s birthday, we went out [...]

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He is Risen Indeed!

Yay for Easter!
Not yay for having two Easter lunches and stuffing my fat face.
Yay for Violet in her cute Easter dress though.
again, not yay for having to go on a dry-bread-and-water fast next week.
One of the fun/not so fun parts of having a small house is periodically getting to play the furniture puzzle game, where [...]

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Here’s to my day

Here’s to my sibling that wrote “Hi” on my windshield with pieces of tortilla.
Here’s to the man out walking with a walkman and headphones.
Here’s to my daughter who stole her friend’s teething cookie and put the whole thing in her mouth till it dissolved.
Here’s to the little boy at the grocery store that made my [...]

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Because, what else am I going to write about?

Once when I was young, I almost killed a greedy chicken.
Who: My brother, a goat, some greedy chickens, and I.
Where: In the barn at my childhood farm in Eastern Washington.
What: I think thats already been established.
When: 1995ish
Why? Well thats the best part. Milking time was always the most exciting time of the day on our farm. The [...]

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Sunday is a fun day for playing in the sun day

except that it rained as soon as we got out of church.
anyway. After church was over, AJ and I were planning on going out to lunch and wanted to see if any of my siblings wanted to come too. Funny thing–since my parents weren’t there and they would be paying for themselves, they weren’t interested.
side [...]

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