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Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

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Love: warm, chewy cookies right out of the oven and a good book. It just doesn’t get any better.

I didn’t get to taste these wonderful peanut butter cookies fresh from the ovens of Tiff’s Treats. I bought them as a Thank You for a co-worker. But it was nice driving home with that aroma filling up my vehicle.

Yummy cookies from Tiff's Treats

Yummy cookies from Tiff’s Treats

I recently rescued these books from the storage shed. I was so happy to find them. I remember reading the whole set as a youngster and being enthralled with the stories. They are next on my to-(re)-read list. And then I’ll return to Tiff’s Treats to get some cookies for myself.

I think I’m in love.

A set of Junior Classics books

The Junior Classics

Weekly Photo Challenge: Love

Archaeological Dig

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I’ve been cleaning out the storage shed lately. Shocked I was, to find exactly how long some items had been packed away. It was a stunning example of “out of sight, out of mind.” Going through the boxes felt like an archaeological dig, a window into our past.

Here are two of hubby’s books that we found. Oldies but goodies.

Two old science fiction paperbacks

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away

Notice the price on them.

Prices of two old science fiction paperbacks

Ah, the good old days

In one of the boxes with hubby’s books was this instruction manual for a slide rule. I just happen to own a slide rule and I knew exactly where it was. It wasn’t even packed away; it was in my desk drawer. Proof positive that hubby and I are meant for each other: two nerds in a pod.

A slide rule and instruction book

Ancient artifacts

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

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I wanted to take this photo early in the morning, before the sun’s glare washed out most of the color. Unfortunately, there was a heavy fog until the early afternoon. So here is the south view from the Texas Capitol, looking down Congress Avenue, in full sun.

Looking south down Congress Avenue

To infinity and beyond!

Here is Lady Bird Lake on an early, cold January morning.

Dawn on Lady Bird lake

Dawn on Lady Bird Lake

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beyond

My Way

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I’m on a mission. I decided to clean out the storage shed. Turns out it is not self-cleaning. The dogs won’t listen to me when I suggest it to them and seven years of hubby’s retirement hasn’t resulted in any change.

It’s up to me.

Saturday I spent about two hours working on it. Sunday I lifted, shifted, recycled and trashed for three hours. The recycling stash got quite large. We’ll be taking everything in this week.

I only had the small 13-gallon garbage bags when I started, and that just wouldn’t do. An early-morning trip to Home Depot took care of that. We now have a box of 50-gallon garbage bags sitting on the shelf. The shelf, I might add, of the brand-new shelving unit that I also brought home from Home Depot and put together myself.

Hubby thinks that most of that junk is mine. Seriously? I found Boy Scout badges, recycled size 11 (men’s) shoe boxes, picked up university Russian books from a year that would have put me in 6th grade and re-boxed retriever training magazines from the early ’90s. And that’s just a sample.

I mentioned to hubby on Friday that I was going to start cleaning out the shed. He said, “Okay.”

“Okay” it is, then. And I’ll do it my way: with 50-gallon bags, a new shelving unit, clear plastic boxes, and trips to the recycling center each week. (Probably not what Frank Sinatra was singing about, but if the size 11 shoe box fits …)