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The church still stands, as well as the convent and whatever you call a house for priests. They did provide some nostalgia ( my mother and her second husband are interred in the church crypt) but I really wanted to walk the halls and see the gymnasium where I made many fruitless attempts to climb a ...

HH; yes, those pix are from my balcony, looking across downtown and the other direction, out toward the Cascade range. This one is looking down Main st. It's a Victorian era gold mining and lumber town. I have lived in volcano/earthquake, ring of fire, my whole life. As a matter of fact there are ex...

How to dad, by H.H.

On a 'nother topic, we might get snow tonight.

It made it down to the peaks along the Cascades today, just outside of town.

There was some mixed in with the rain down here.

...and keep in mind that generational wealth is often depleted by the second generation following its origin.

Get those kids involved in your business, get their hands dirty.

That is correct. St. Alice Catholic school. K-8 Grade.

I was devastated to find out that it was sold to a local hospital and razed to make a parking lot!

Practice saying "president Vance".

HH, you misspelled 'piracy' several paragraphs back.

Nice to hear from both of you.

I haven't ead that much since War and Peace.

It was a semester, or quarter... I never paid attention to the rules and regs of the scholastic year but you are correct, it was fascinating.

Speaking of language, When I was in the sixth grade, we had a Australian PH. D. Candidate come in to teach us the meanings of prefixes and suffixes, and how they relate to words, and it was perhaps the most useful lesson that I ever had in understanding language. Sadly , I do not remember his name o...

One would think that it would have disqualified him from the running, since he truly wasn't acting at that point.

Sorry to hear about your cat, it's always rough to lose a pet.

It is, however, good to hear from you.

Yay!

I just finished housecleaning with he doors and windows open.

I keep a little 18" prelit tinsel tree in a closet, to take out any time I need a little Christmas.

On the thin slice of the pa ific coast I live on, we're ha ING 50s, with 60s forecast for this weekend.

I can't say that I'm disappointed.

Yes, the snow moon.

This year it was somewhat ironic because it was a crystal clear night but then it snowed two days later.

Happy Valentines Day everyone.

managed to push my phones' camera enough to grab a decent shot of the moon from my balcony.