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Soulemama: {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

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It’s that time again.  Time we get to the business of sharing our hopes for the summer season ahead.  We started making our list this past weekend. It’s in rough draft form right now. One of things I’m most excited about? We plan on taking this girl to the drive-in theater that is about 45 [...]

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Just ran out to get a peek of Bessie packed & ready (almost) to leave in the morning for our annual camping trip in the Adirondacks. We are all giddy with excitement. I’m sure there will be lots of sharing when we get back. Until then, I hope you all are finding your way toward [...]

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From Soulemama: “{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.”

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What, you can’t see her doing just that in this picture: She was totally in her element that evening at the big party we took her to where there were many admirers and she even got to pop her top (hole-y, 40-year-old canvas and all!). Last week was a big push to get a lot [...]

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Namely one of Bessie’s previous owners should not have.  L1 & spent some of his Father’s Day working on Bessie while the kids played pirates and baseball and picked mulberries in the yard around us.  There were some final pieces of sound dampener stuck on: And some new insulation stuffed in (we’ll be using Refletix [...]

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Really, it started last fall when we totally gutted her interior and washed her down.  She went from this: To this: This weekend we finally had the right combination of time, weather, and L1 at home to allow for us to do this: This is the just first step of many we have for restoring [...]

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From Soulemama: “{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.”

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Over the weekend we had our much anticipated May visit with our friends.  The Westy was a source of entertainment for all, though especially for L1 and Mr. Wench.  They worked on finishing most of the tune-up L1 & I had started before they arrived.  When it was done and the engine running we all [...]

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Moments ago the names from the blog anniversary give-away were finally put into a bowl (written out Saturday!). Yes, I reused some paper for them! And the winner is: Plain & Joyful Living! Please contact me to let me know what “prize” you’d like and your postal address. Thank you to all who entered and [...]

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