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Acclimatization or Alaska – it depends on the temperature…

I am staying home sick today as my sinus cavities seem to be having a convention and the attendees are packed in to the extent that my head feels like one of those giant head balloon characters in the...

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…when hell freezes over.

Do you know that saying…the one which starts with any number of things and ends with "when hell freezes over"?  I have used it a few dozen times in my lifetime (give or take another few dozen times)....

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Is that all you’ve got??

I may be on day five of being sick, but I am not dead yet.  As such I can still find plenty of things that I find curious. Case in point – the forecast for the rest of the week (see it below).  The big...

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Rough shape…

The news of the day is that I am in rough shape.  I still have the Clu (I must say B-Dubya, I am looking forward to being Clu-less).  I started having struggles with robust coughing spasms a couple of...

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Patience: EXPIRED.

There comes a time each year when my patience completely expires.  It arrives at different times, but historically I don’t make it more than a couple months into the new year before I exclaim to...

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I can see the writing on the tissue box…

Cheyenne missed a day of school this past Wednesday because she was not feeling well.  It is a rare occasion when that happens.  She is not a fan of missing school.  I am not sure who her family is as...

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Two colds and dozens to go?

I am now on my second head cold this semester.  The first one held on tight for about a week.  The second one has been trying to take me out for the past two weeks.  I have blown enough mucus out of my...

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This is exactly the thing I fear…

The older I become, the more I find myself sharing my unsolicited advice with younger folks.  I have become one of those matronly ladies that I recall from my youth – ladies who act like your mother,...

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Giddy.

When I saw that the temperature yesterday morning was 11 degrees I was giddy.  Not pleasantly surprised, not mildly excited – giddy. Giddy about 11 degree weather.  When it got into the 30s later in...

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Pleasantly tolerable…

Do you know how you know that you have become a true North Dakotan?  You know when you start viewing anything above zero with sunshine in February as a lovely day.  Seriously…lovely.  That is the...

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Not as durable as my students…

Well, my grandson Lennon is on the mend, but his mother and I are sick now.  Go figure. I guess that is how these things go. His mother has the flu and has to where a mask around the house to avoid...

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