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		<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a long hiatus from WordPress.  I missed writing here, though I have kept up with my usual round of blogs whether I commented when I visited you or not.  I have really been limiting my time on the computer the past few weeks.  Wrapping up the end of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qugrainne.com&blog=890505&post=1647&subd=qugrainne&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>the crystal bell inn &#8211; wabeno, wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 02:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
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My back was killing me from the four-hour drive.  I listened to a book on tape, took about a hundred pictures of the sunset, drank a chocolate malt from McDonalds, but I was definitely ready to be out of the car.
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photos today.  Story to follow.
Northern Wisconsin &#8211; on the road:








Lily River, Forest County:







NOBODY TOLD ME THERE WAS GOING TO BE 1,000 TICKS
PER SQUARE FOOT IN MAY AND JUNE!!
That wasn&#8217;t the kind of bug I planned to be bit by!
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		<title>You were bit by what kind of bug?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 15:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short stories are pretty low on my list of favorite things to read.  I can’t remember ever purchasing a short story anthology.  So picture my surprise this evening, when I realized that I have been reading short stories voraciously.
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		<title>How my life went to the dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 13:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lists are the way I normally accomplish things that need to get&#8230; accomplished!  I have been unable to make a list for the past two weeks because I knew reading it would put me over the edge.  This blog is misnamed; it should be So Many Chores, So Little Time.  Books?  Who has time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qugrainne.com&blog=890505&post=1584&subd=qugrainne&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau


When you are young, time seems to crawl, winding along in slow circles, no rush, no worry, no pressure to get things done.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qugrainne.com&blog=890505&post=1571&subd=qugrainne&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>savage  by david almond, illustrated by dave mckean</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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The Once Upon a Time Challenge from Stainless Steel Droppings has pushed me into unchartered waters again.  Thus I have read a young adult book titled Savage, by David Almond, illustrated by Dave McKean.
How I came about reading this particular book is a sad story.  Harry Schwartz Bookshop has been a Milwaukee meeting place for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qugrainne.com&blog=890505&post=1553&subd=qugrainne&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>spring&#8230;.. it will arrive</title>
		<link>http://qugrainne.com/2009/03/31/spring-it-will-arrive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
D. H. Lawrence


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		<title>as shadows fade &#8211; the gardella vampire chronicles  by colleen gleason</title>
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Vampires?  Romance? Bodices bursting on book covers?   I don’t read those types of books.  And then Carl at Stainless Steel Droppings introduced me to Colleen Gleason and the Gardella Vampire Chronicles.  I read, enjoyed, and reviewed the first four books in the series last fall.
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Spring has sprung; little green tufts are appearing through the brown in the garden, robins are chirping at dawn, there is a different quality to the sunlight in the late afternoon.  And, the surest sign of spring: Carl has posted the Once Upon A Time III challenge at Stainless Steel Droppings. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qugrainne.com&blog=890505&post=1521&subd=qugrainne&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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