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Beach views

Watching her.

Watching the sea.

Soon. But not yet.

What happened to the week? Tech week, that’s what happened to the week.  So many things in the wide world to think and talk about, but alas. Duty called. And called. And never stopped calling.
Mama’s opening a show tonight, and what that means is that the household has not seen her all week. Only slightly [...]

Compare with Squash goatee, of about a year and a half ago, for a quickie blast from the past. Double his lifetime later, he’s so sophisticated now. So debonair. So — hey! Is that a stinky diaper I smell?

After dinner she tossed the teddy bear in the air over and over again, catching it maybe 50% of the time at best. Said, with a seriousness available to only a five and a half year-old, that this was her new goal: to toss the bear up as high as possible and try to catch [...]

Share/keep

This note is a list of items the girlchild and her brother recently decided they’d share, alongside a list of items they wanted to keep as their own, exclusively. Shareable (and I’ll rewrite into ordinary spelling):

• doll
• pony
• ??
• books
• elephant
• cowboy hat
• headband
•  cloth crown (an incredible birthday gift handmade by the mother of [...]

Better for the moment not to intersperse these with words — which per usual I have more than enough of, though per usual often not enough time to share ‘em. The story that’s there is right fine and true. [Ed note #1: You could of course roll over the pictures for wee captions, though. [...]

Text as written:
IF YOU WONT TO YOU CAN GO TO A CLUB WE OR HVEN TO NIT/ THE CLUB IS NOW THIS CLUB IS ABOWT CHAGEEN THE THIINGS THAT MAC PEEPOS LIVS HRD CIDS ONLY
Text, translated & punctuated:
If you want to, you can go to a club we are having tonight. The club is now. [...]



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