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    Five Minute Friday: Last

    Five Minute Friday: Last I missed Five Minute Friday’s Linkup  on Oct 24, 2019 for the prompt Wait This week I am determined to get my five minutes and write about the prompt Last before it is too late. https://fiveminutefriday.com/2019/10/31/fmf-writing-prompt-link-up-last/ The last week of October  I had my hopefully LAST surgery of this year. In fact I told the doctors that with a surgery Nov 2017, March, April, Aug 2018 and 2 in Oct of 2019 that this last one was just that. The LAST. My vision for 2020 is to have  a year with no surgeries and to walk…

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    5 Five Minute Friday: Active

    This week’s Five Minute Friday  writing prompt is: Active  Some days my clocks seem to be able to be more active than me. Or at least so it seems. I am laid up again this time from a partial knee replacement.  As the healing progresses I look forward to increasing my activity level. five minutes or less 1. Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.  Last weeks prompt was Deep and I didn’t even get five minutes as…

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    Currently Arranging and Loving

    Currently Arranging & Loving It is a new day of a new month. I flipped the page of the calendar to a fresh clean slate this morning. A new day and a fresh start. I hope you enjoy the read. I am joining up with Anne in Residence to talk about what we are arranging, loving, embracing, purchasing, and sharing. So here is my update on what I am up to. I am busy on the homestead presently  putting out  fall decorations .Before I know it, as fast as the days go by it will be time to haul out the Christmas decorations. I…

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    Fall Foliage: 2019 September Challenge

    Art Elements: September 2019 Challenge Earlier in the month I came across this great art challenge post with beautiful images. I really had so many ideas just not a lot of time to focus. The theme of the challenge is foliage, Being here  in the mountains of Maine in Autumn I am going to be showing some art I attempted with the autumn leaves in mind. First using the element: Photography Fall Foliage   Then I tried some leaf decorations on our gluten free dairy free pumpkin muffins. I did make a little fall leaf (swag?) to hang on the…

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    Farm Fresh Fall Tuesday Autumn & Maple Party

    Farm Fresh Fall Tuesday Autumn & Maple Party I am putting together this post especially for the Farm Fresh Linkup this week. I love the idea of celebrating autumn and maple. I guess I never really thought about maple as fall related. I associate it with spring when the sap starts running and we attempt to make our own homemade maple syrup. As I mentioned in my goals posts this year we are trying to do more of making our own food. I have this list on Amazon that I keep of Maple Syrup Making Supplies Then I realized that…

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    #Bloggers Wanted For October 2019

    #Bloggers Wanted For October 2019 I have a few surgeries coming up in October and one is on my dominant wrist so typing will not be happening for a bit. My teen daughter will help me with some to be sure I maintain my commitments but I’d love to feature some of you awesome writers. So here is my post announcing that Bloggers are Wanted!! Please read on for more information.

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    September Linkup With A Chronic Voice 2019

    September 2019 A Chronic Voice Linkup Image Credit AChronicVoice.com I am joining up with a chronic voice September linkup. The Prompts for the Month are FINDING,RESEARCHING,DATING,REUSING,RECOUNTING Read more participants link up posts here https://www.achronicvoice.com/2019/08/25/september-2019-linkup/ Last weeks Five Minute Friday word prompt was Pace and I did not get the post written in time. I haven’t been doing much writing lately. I miss it. I just seem to be in a funk with brain fog keeping me from focusing long enough to write. Its difficult writing anything that I think is something someone would want to read. Pace though goes along…