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Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Our Next Assignment Is

[Turn it up...] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Ahh…yes, Alabama. We’ll probably end up in Enterprise, AL – the closest town to base – where they celebrate the Boll Weevil. No joke. They’ve even got a statue of one in their town square. See?…There it is. And you thought I was kidding. There’s [...]

Monday, August 8th, 2011

What’s Left Behind

Every time a military family moves, a lot gets left behind. These are sometimes donated, sometimes gifted, often times pitched & then there’s jewels like these – the abandoned. When my friend & her family moved back to the States in June, she left behind the lilies she had purchased & planted last year. Stargazers [...]

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

How This Is Gonna Work

Moving 6 times in 7 years, I’ve come to pick up a thing or two. And every freakin’ time we have to move again I think, “there’s got to be an easier way”. [This is where a good spiral notebook comes in handy - small & portable.] The first step to figuring out just what [...]