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From the Weather Desk:

If all this rain we've been having was snow, it would now be piled to the top of the windows. It is pouring--again!--and has been for hours and hours.

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From the Upsizing desk:

Pat and I hit a few errands and wandered through Quakertown Antique Mall this week. It is a memory conjuror place, for sure. Out front sat a Meadowbrook cart that was exactly the kind Wendy competed with when she trained dear old Faj to pull it and later trained Cisco to do it, too. This one has a green finish. Ours had a stained finish.

Inside awaited a memory of my dishes left behind in Tucson...

This one is exactly the same, too, save it is a bigger size. 

Pat got an African violet from a local Telford nursery/florist

A terrific find happened Saturday...

The Care and Share, a Mennonite second-hand store in Souderton, had this offering sitting there. Solid wood, pull-out extensions at each end (that work!). Either 3' x 4'or 5'or 6'. There are actually four chairs; the other two armless ones were already whisked away to the back for Monday pick up after paying and before I could get a snap. Total cash outlay: $43.

A good friend offered to remove the table top and refinish it in his workshop. Pat and I went on Monday with our trusty ponies and loaded up all five pieces, stopped at Bob's where he removed the top, then we took the remainder to the barn at the farm. Today, we purchased a few things from the local Lowe's to begin a liquid sanding process.

I'll bring one piece at a time from the barn to the patio here to work on it.

I had the couch I bought three months ago brought to Marge's living room which really didn't need a second couch. It's a click-clack. I'm sitting comfortably on it as I write to you.

Now I know it is okay and not mouldering in a warehouse with a family of mice moving into it, or worse.

There was time to attempt a rendering of Pat's dog snuggled up to the family cat in his new home at her daughter's...

Freddy. He's smaller than and his new buddy.

The rained upon grass at Godshall Park.

In Missouri, niece Jackie and her two daughters. Hair braiding time...

Della, Harper, and Jackie.