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End of Summer Blooms at the Park🌻
These sunflowers almost look fake they were so full. Photos: Family5Power.com; mine
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You’re Middle Age When…My Waistline
Your weight is the same that it has been for 10 years, but suddenly you need the next size up in pants!? Stuff shifts, people. There are worse things in life for sure, but it’s a bummer. If you read my previous post, I’m protesting the next size up by…
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If Sitting is the New Smoking…
Then I must be up to three packs a day. Since beginning my new job this past Spring, I have felt terribly restricted. The amount of time I spend sitting is outrageous. Driving to work. Sitting in my office. Meetings. Driving home from work…in traffic – delaying me in my…
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Fashion
I’ve always wanted to participate in a word-of-the-day or photo challenge on WordPress. While I think of an idea or even pull up a photo, a busy schedule usually sets me on another path and the challenge is over before I can post! Today, I’m joining in for Cee Cee’s…
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🍺The Making of a Barrel🍺
This is the final post about our trip and this series ends with a must-visit-while-in-Dublin: The Guinness Storehouse. I never gave much thought to beer, the making of it and certainly never specific brands and how/when/where they were created. This tour was unexpectedly fascinating and the history of this company…
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The Long Room in Dublin, Ireland
As part of the Trinity College expedition in Dublin, we walked through the highly impressive Long Room. While I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition books that I told you about at the castle (HERE), this was a vast college and beyond what I could have imagined as a book lover.…
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The Book of Kells🇮🇪
Moving on to Ireland, one of our first stops was to visit The Book of Kells at Trinity College in Dublin. We learned that this book contains the four gospels, created by monks in the 9th century. Historians appear to struggle with where exactly it was created but believe locations…
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Edinburgh Castle🏴
After landing in Glasgow, we traveled to Edinburgh to see this extraordinary castle. Due to travel and having to get to the wedding venue in Maybole, Ayrshire, we didn’t spend nearly as much time as required to really see all the extraordinary history on this particular Scotland site. This castle…
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Scotland Blooms…with Spurgeon Gratitude
“May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.” Charles Spurgeon These are a few blooms that were outside the Blairquhan Castle in Scotland.
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