September 6, 2024

1. Smol Acrobat: mom, can you gwow more cucumbers for me and Wee? We wike dem!
The garden, meager as it is, is a hit with the kids too. This is maybe the most expensive hobby I’ve had in a while 😆
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August 30, 2024

1. From Bree of KitRocha, The West Alabama Women’s Center needs help staying funded to get through the end of the year. They provide essential healthcare services (trans care, prenatal care and birth control).
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August 23, 2024

1. My mini munch cucumber plant is growing five teeny cucumbers! This is delightful AND I’m again ever so grateful we don’t need me to grow any real amount of our food.
2. I petted strangers’ dogs at the county fair and they were all so cute.
Challenges this week: Getting everyone up and out the door on time.
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August 16, 2024

1. Oops I forgot today was Friday! We have had so much socializing all week I can hardly find my head.
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August 9, 2024

1. We did NOT get COVID from the friend who did get it and spent time with us before she knew. Go masks and booster vax!
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August 2, 2024

1. I took a chance on a package of soft rolls for lunch sandwiches and it was perfect. They were soft as a cloud and squishy so it didn’t feel like I was getting 70% starch to the rest of the sandwich.
Challenges this week:
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July 26, 2024

1. At first I was positively astonished that Biden bowed out and was a touch skeptical that this country will elect the first female and Black president. That was in the first hour of the announcement. I was imagining total chaos in the wake of his stepping down. I wanted to hold out hope because a baked potato would be better than Trump, never mind a relatively reasonable human with relevant experience.
Now I’m relieved at how the whole thing was managed to give her support immediately. I won’t pretend that I personally like Harris. I don’t know enough about her to say yet and I’m not a fan of the cult of personality type politics. However she does have a body of experience that’s highly relevant and she came out of the gate strong and that gives me hope. I do like the possibility that she might be a leader we can accomplish good things with even if we have to push her to them. We all know that’s absolutely nothing like what we’d get out of a second TFG presidency.
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