sandhillsis on February 20th, 2009

Surely you’ve figured out by now, I am not normal. Turns out this family I married into isn’t normal either. They hang on to stories and catch phrases from silly things that have happened over the years, retelling them at every gathering, and everyone howls, like they just heard it for the first time. This is [...]

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sandhillsis on February 19th, 2009

It was bound to happen. If I read enough books on money management, we would some day end up, debt free.  Finally we did. It started back in 1995, right after we were married, living on one income near Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where Ben was a Marine. We never had money left over at the end [...]

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sandhillsis on February 17th, 2009

I have a secret, I make dirt. I know, it’s kind of a small-god, pompous thing to do.  But, it makes me feel ‘potent, so it’s what I do. Actually, my dirt here is really rich and heavy (too much clay) so it needs new dirt or compost to make it lighter. When making dirt [...]

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sandhillsis on February 15th, 2009

I used to have a general rule about candy intake: pace yourself. I have abandon this theory, and have adopted the: eat it all and barely survive the natural consequences that comes with 24 hours of constant sugar intake theory. It happened last night. Ben woke me up from a great dream to say we had a puker. He [...]

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