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February
Favorite Quotation
- This morning the pastures have a brown and faded look, like an apron that has had too many careless washings. Rural Free: A Farmwife's Almanac of Country Living by Rachel Peden
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December
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- Halsey City Hall Decorated for Christmas
- More Christmas Photos
- Christmas photos
- Christmas Day Photos
- A Rousing Game of Monopoly
- Clearing Skies
- Christmas Eve and Christmas
- Vorfreude
- More Cookies!
- Next....Freezing Rain
- Santa's Whiskers
- Preemie Hats
- The Tree Is Up!!!
- And Yet Another Weather Advisory
- A New Tradition--The Birthday Passion
- Birthday!
- Another Weather Warning
- Birthday Dinner
- Wind Storm Coming
- Quilts
- Cookies
- Christmas Surprises
- Christmas is Coming!
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December
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Other Pieces of My Life
Twelve Things I've Learned
- As I get older I am becoming fonder of tenderness
- Beauty fades but substance doesn't
- Don't compromise yourself, it's all you've got. (Janis Joplin)
- Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)
- Hope begins in the dark. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. It is important to fight for your joy
- I sing in church even though my singing is wretched; God doesn't care how well I sing
- I've never lost anything by giving things away
- Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff and hope you grow wings on the way down (Ray Bradbury)
- The best things come when you least expect them
- The two best prayers I know are: help me, help me, help me and thank you, thank you, thank you (Anne Lamott)
- There are cracks in everything; that's how the light comes in (Leonard Cohen)
- When you get the choice to sit it out or dance--I hope you dance! (Lee Ann Womack)
About Me
- Monique
- I am a wife, the mother of four grown sons, and nana to five grandchildren. I work part-time as a librarian/ archivist at a university library. I enjoy knitting socks, hats, mittens and other items for charity, reading, hand quilting, growing old-fashioned flowers, and bird watching.