Retiring Doesn’t Work

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**DISCLAIMER**  My dad would never call a game from the sidelines, and he would never vocalize any disagreements with the calls on the floor. The year we built our house was really hard on all of our... Read More

Productive

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Productive as defined by Merriam-Webster: a : yielding results, benefits, or profits This is the first weekend in months we haven’t had to travel at least one day, so I had a plan.  I HAD a pl... Read More

La Grande

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Post-A-Day 2011:  Describe the town where you grew up. La Grande, Oregon   The official description of  La Grande from the Union County Tourism website: Nestled at the feet of the Blue Mountains on... Read More

Oink! Giggle! Oink! Giggle!

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My neice, Kayleigh, loves pigs.  She has for as long as I can remember.  When her mom, my sister, told her that my brother-in-law’s sow just had babies, she went nuts!  Kayleigh convinced her... Read More

The Locket

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Today was Reagan’s 9th birthday.  I had such a hard time expressing what it felt like to me when Emma turned 16, but it was nothing compared to this.  Realizing that this is the last year my l... Read More

Mustang Stars!

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Before the Blue Mountain Conference District Basketball Tournament last week I made star shaped cookies for both the Heppner teams.  I figured that it was something simple but fun that I could do for... Read More

Reagan’s List

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Reagan’s list of heroes has grown exponentially over the past year.  Until last Fall, her list was pretty short, and it was pretty easy to understand.  Her biggest sister, Emma, was on top of ... Read More

The Bug – Squished

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   Last Saturday, Harley, Reagan, and I went to Heppner to watch Emma’s last home basketball games of the season.  Harley spent most of the night playing with my friend Sandi’s grand-da... Read More

IHS Mini-Cheer Camp

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The IHS Cheerleading Squad has grown exponentially over the past five years.  It has grown from approximately 4 cheerleaders to 14, and it has grown from a very small program to a large competition-w... Read More

Right Way? Left Way?

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Today’s prompt fo the Post-A-Day 2011 project is not one that I am comfortable answering right now, so I decided to find my own topic.  As I was going through my daily blog reading, I came acro... Read More

CYB, Honored!

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Harley is playing Columbia Youth Basketball this year (I’ll post game pictures later), and Reagan is participating in a 6-week skills camp put on by CYB, as well.  Friday night at the last IHS ... Read More