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cilla4progress

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Fri Aug 25, 2023, 09:25 AM Aug 2023

Looking ahead to 10 blissful days home alone with only Colt, the new pup, and [View all]

the other 4-leggeds (well, to be accurate - the 6 hens only have 12 legs between them)... 😃

Husband is off for a backpack trip with our daughter, and I'm at home to mind the ranch.

Was a time when I might not have felt so unburdened at having a long stretch here alone ..but, due to life's vicissitudes, and having the constant presence of another person since retirement in what has been my domain for so long...the prospect of not having to coordinate meals, energy levels, house cleanliness, sleep schedules, will surely be re-energizing and just the palate cleanser I need!

It's been a helluva year but things are looking up.

Plus, this is my favorite time of year - my favorite seasonal transition. Smoke and heat have subsided, days are shortening, all is calm, all is bright!

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