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It Looks Like a Round-Up but It’s Just Thursday
The sound of the lawn being mowed by someone not me is delicious.
Later, I’m going to make myself a bowl of instant mashed potatoes and that will be a travesty but also delicious considering my current food choices.
This morning, I found my dog after he’d disappeared at a big dog park, and other people were looking for him (he was that lost), by going down a dense overgrown path to the river where he was standing very far away on a little slip of land in the river chewing grass like a lost horse.
The discussion in our writing group turned to the perfect sentence today, so a writing friend read one that he had been working on for some time and it was, indeed, beautifully constructed and quite compelling, leading me to think I should be more deliberate in what I write and not always be in such a hurry.
I’m revising a story about a dad and daughter who go fishing and how the dad’s expectations of the daughter’s toughness is both good for the daughter and very wearing to their relationship, a subject I know quite a bit about, especially the part about getting a hook out of a northern pike’s mouth while someone watches.
The NFL Draft is tonight which means New York strip steaks and double-baked potatoes for those of us not eating instant mashed potatoes, not the first time life’s gone on without me.
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Well that’s some serious football TV and dinner in your house! I hope you had some ice cream for dessert, or at least chocolate pudding. The dogs seem to be getting more adventurous lately…or have they always wandered off but come back?