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A challenge is a challenge to our "danger Jane", also known as GK. So, on our family outing this morning, we came upon a field with a gazillion Canada geese foraging. I asked GK to get out and take a couple of pictures of the geese without the fence in the view. She gladly took on the challenge of crossing an irrigation canal and getting to the geese without frightening them to flight. But

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Thought you might like an update on the education front. A little background. Ry has been diagnosed with Aspergers which is on the Autism Spectrum. Part of his diagnosis is not being able to communicate clearly, being influenced and affected by outside stimuli, repetitive behaviors and self management issues.  so proud of himself, what a guy Shelley has been through 3 previous Individual

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Attitude adjustments come in all colors, sizes and forms. Sweetness comes in packages, boxes, packets and jars............except when it's too sweet for containers as mundane. When it comes with a beating heart, long fuzzy ears and smiling eyes....... Bernardo de MBF Freckles on noses, whiskers on donkeys, my grandbabies' laughter and small flying monkeys, full moons and magick, new sparkly

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Her name is Sparkle, her mommy's name is Champagne. They live at Edgewood Longears Safehouse. There is nothing cuter than a baby donkey........awwwwww

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Can you see my bottom lip in the official pout position? Well it's not a pretty sight. Neither is my left foot. While doing what we do in January, namely organizational stuff, I tipped over a table and it landed on my foot. Yikes. I never said I was sure footed or coordinated now did I? So ice, elevate and wait was the song I've been singing for the past two days. I let Edgewood Longears

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I'm going to regale you with my day of donkeyness. The truth, pictures and all. We dropped off the kids at school (both of whom wanted to play hookey and go with us but I was a selfish shellfish and said no). And then headed out to the east mountains via old Route 66. A slower way to our destination but much more colorful and interesting than the interstate. Prior to our trip, we received

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If you've been reading my drivel for any length of time, you have noticed that I ride the cuckoo train to Feel Goodville and back to Myassisdraggin Junction about every 60 days. No big deal except it does get kinda monotomous to all concerned. And when I am mentally engaged, I am less likely to stay on the negative end of the line with or without my friend Fibro. So I want to make some changes in

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I'm going to let you tell me what you think nostalgia is, especially at a time of year when we all look back and think how lovely things were. Is it the feeling of comfort we gain from the familiar? Is it the persons, places or events now gone that we long for? Is it a fad, attitude or position that we once held but no longer hold so true? I have had dreams, as of late, that entail long ago

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I commented on someones facebook or blog or maybe I dreamed about it, that I am so very glad that all the fa la la is over. This has been the first holiday season in decades when I did not have enthusiasm for anything or put up 3 trees in the house, decorate the outside of the house with all manner of winter paraphernalia, bake everything chocolate ever invented and made the Mexican Christmas of

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And a deep thinker as well. Ry can come up with the most unique things in the universe. I am always amazed at not only the things he thinks of, but also the complexity of his thoughts and sometimes to be perfectly honest, I don't understand. Let me interrupt myself to say that lately, I have had conversations with adults I know, about life, living and the pursuit of knowledge. My friend and

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Yep, that's me getting a squooze from the Santa Man himself. Took the kids to breakfast at Mick's Chile Fix this morning and there he was, Santa Claus, just sitting there eating his super Green and Red Chile breakfast burrito. I was the first to get and give a hug. He told me I needed to work on being a good girl, but we all knew that already huh? He gave the kids huge hugs. Then he told them

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for about 22 seconds at a time. But the dogs and I have sat in the southern facing window and enjoyed spurts of El Sol's mini visits for the last few days. I'll take the sun when I can get it. At one point it was Odin (the grands dog) and I on the love seat with Ellie Mae Scootles (of the Tohajalee Scootles) on my lap and Sunny Bunny Boo Boo Head (the 14 yr old Ginger Tabby Manx) on the back of

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It's like having a boyfriend cheat on you.....dealing with Blogger. Ya never know if you can trust um again. First, my background on two of the other blogs shrunk to stupid in the middle and were not longer backgrounds but obstructions to reading. Then I put a new plainish background on OBnSS to fix that problem, changed my mind when I found a cute on on Shabby Blogs, applied it and Blogger

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We have anxiously awaited this day. It's not often that we can get away to such a lovely location for an evening of dancing, dining and visiting with our friends. The location chosen this year is somewhere we have never been before but have longed to be invited so that we could meet the world renowned host and owner of the Snowload Inn, located in the mysterious and hard to reach Justover in the

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I have always loved to grow indoor plants. In the beginning of this adventure, I had all the very typical plants; wandering jew, airplane plant, Swedish Ivy (I still love that plant), kangaroo vine. At one point there were so many plants in the house that it looked like a greenhouse. But that was before I moved back into my childhood home to care for my father after my mother had passed away.

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Some people say I'm a mean old witch. That's not true. I have the heart of a kind & gentle soul - in a jar on my desk! Thanks Elizabeth at The Witch of Stiches Also thank you Libby for the wonderful giveaway pressies I received in the mail. Tea, money candle, hippy smelling incense and a wonderful contemplation stone. You are the best.

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I have a wonderful Ponderosa Pine in my front yard. My parents planted this tree 42 years ago. So it is an great tree and provides us with shade for all of our garage sales and the kids love it because fairy build nests in the crooks of its branches. While fall is the time for all the needles and pine cones to fall and leave a mess for us..............the wind today did the job of zip cleaning

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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg, even though he knows that you are slightly cracked ~ Bernard Meltzer

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Wikipedia says,  "In Mexico and among Mexican-Americans, El Cucuy is portrayed as an evil monster that hides under children's bed at night and kidnaps or eats the child that does not obey his/her parents or go to sleep when it is time to do so. El Cucuy is a Boogie Man. A bogeyman (also spelled bogieman, boogeyman or boogieman) is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to frighten children

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Always Unique Totally Intelligent Sometimes Mysterious saw this on a bumper sticker for sale on Autism Awareness on Cafe Press.....so many to choose from. Honor Neurodiversity Acceptance is the cure.................

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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries - A.A. Milne

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Ms. Baggs here. It has been so long since I last posted about my interview with the gnomes that I have almost forgotten the whole of that adventure. If you too have forgotten, here is a link for you to that post. http://yeoldecronesgazette.blogspot.com/2011/07/stepping-over-threshold.html However, I must confess that I do have a soft spot for the head gnome, lovely chap with a fine attitude

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When I asked all of you for ideas of where we might enjoy our Thanksgiving day, your creativity opened the doors to a very thrilling and exciting adventure based on what you said. So, after reading all of the ideas, suggestions and fun thoughts, this is what we have decided to do. We'll have to get up really early to be able to fit all the activity into one day. So, knowing we will be short on

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I had another post all ready to explain my dark poetry.............but then I thought better. I do not want to bring anymore attention to that which deserves none. So if you have a question, email me, I'll tell ya who, what, where and when.....but from the comments most all of you know and that's the name of that tune. Ms. Crone will be here on Friday to share an adventure from the infestation

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loathing, a lie on two legs disgust, hearing that stomachs are growling in the dark pain, feeling not one of your arms is long enough terror, seeing crayons scrawl claws of memory horror, holding a wilted flower from a hot soak frustration, seeing ugly stir hope, on vacation in hell resolve, brewing cures with others I hear the smell of endings that rustle like death so close, yet illusive Soon,

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Mary from Deep South Dish Bird from Bird Gardener's Place of Earthly Spirituality Danni from The Whimsical Cottage Congratulations to you lovelies and thanks for entering my giveaway. If you would please send me your snail mail addy, I'll get your hearts in the mail asap. Thank you to all the rest of the suggestions for our Thanksgiving adventure. My plan is to use your suggestions in a story to

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These are the NQR (Not Quite Right) hearts that are up for grabs to the winner of the drawing. All you have to do is tell us how we could spend our Thanksgiving Day since we will not be having Turkey Day until Sunday. Your place doesn't have to even exist....just give us some food for thought. And by the way, today, even for those who have already entered......oh what the hey, enter again.

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While you're waiting for me to pick out which three of you charming lovelies is going to be chosen as the winners of the Holiday Not Quite Right hearts, let me share with you this picture. If I had cute little sausage toes like this I'd show the off all the time. Lucky little brat. Stylin' forties 5" heels, dirty jeans and red and white polka dot mushroom toes....ain't it a HUH? So now back

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I realize that Ms. Crone and the other reporters on the staff of Ye Olde Crone's Gazette have been slacking as of late and I, as the management, do apologize. Summer, school starting, the 52 card pickup style of redecorating and our crazy love of Hallowoonie have all taken their toll on our consistency here at the Gazette. However, we will begin next Friday with a new article on a fun

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I love this idea... Just show and tell... I have it in me to do this once a week... First this is the rabble rousers on Halloween This wonderful Booby prize came in the mail. Thank you Stacy of MagicLoveCrow. The title is "you can't see me". Isn't it the sweetest???? Bought bread at the roadside growers market in Corrales on Sunday. Who would thunked we find our Dia de Los Muertos,

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Here come the Frumpkins, Lumpkins, and long legged Pumpkins running real fast, up the drive And the Dumpkins and Stumpkins and even the Krumpkins, keeping All Hallow's alive................... Thanks to Danni of Whimsical Cottage for The Countdown to Halloween, Magaly of Pagan Culture for All Hallow's Grim, Lynn of The Witch Blog for letting me post there, and Anne of Frosted Petunias for

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ZOMBIES And I have never been a follower of the cult adventures of such. But just because I actually said, "I don't believe in Zombies" to Shel and the kids....we'll see what I found on my front porch today. I love me some trailer trash pink flamingoes as front yard decorations. I used to only have them in the backyard when I thought I would be judged for my decor choices. You know, just in

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I cracked up when Sweet Man, Ry and GK got back from getting Frostys. The three of them are so funny and cute together. They always have adventures of the maximum variety when they terrorize the citizens of Burque. When GK was little it was Peter Pan and Wendy that they adventured. Acting out the parts, using the voices, pretending and loving the play. Now with Ry it is Batman, Batboy and if

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who shares the most marvelous and wonderous gifties with me. I must have fooled her into thinking I deserved these bits because she sent me loads and many. Thought you might like to see all the sweets I received from a very sweet Celia at Oberon's Wood. She is a fabulous miniature maker and here are some proof of that pudding, I'd say. Tiny candies of all kinds, cakes, pumpkins, cauldron of

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Another story from long, long ago. I was only 19 and not all that savvy in the ways of the world. I sat between Frenchie and Bill in the front seat of my used '59 Studebaker. The car was a hulk on wheels. Looked like a linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings, except it was baby blue. I bought the car with the money I saved up working at the bakery and paid a whole, big $50.00 to my cousin Pete for

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Special thanks to Lyn of Witch's Blog for this wonderful opportunity. I am a dyed in the wool, Halloween-aholic, solitary witch and a Trick or Treat ophile. I do know that my love of the end days of October began as a child and I have not in all these decades since missed a single opportunity to "over do" it in the name of a true believer in the Magick of Halloween. I also know that some

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Thank you to dear Magaly for the opportunity to write about something slight dark, slightly shivery, slightly gross............... From my desk, I have a view of the entire area. It is beautiful here and the people I get to visit with, are few and far between, but a pleasure none the less. I only see them if there is a complaint. Usually crows or moles but sometimes they come and want me to help

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Cuz it's October and October is Boobie month....that is go get your booies' squashed month. So do it already. Mammogram for those who perfer the modest term.And I also was awarded a prize......a booby prize, by the wonderfully talented and generous Stacy at Magic Love Crow.....the sweetie one and the Off With Their Heads one.....are both fabulous and I am so glad that I got to be a winner in one

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Alrighty then..........how 'bout you?How's things? How's tricks? How ya doin'?I am fabulous going on obnoxious, thanks for askin'. And quite frankly it scares the bean juice right out of me. Not so you would notice (haha) I ride on a roller coaster of emotion, mood, impulse, mania, whatever you want to label it. And right now, I'm good to go.I have; autumn being here, the rain having washed away

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I'm linking up with Amber from Airing My Dirty Laundry One Sock at a Time for her "Hey, It's Okay Tuesday!" Found this fun thing and thought I would give er a try. The premise is It's Okay for feel the way you do about stuff in life, and this is a chance to vent or declare......officially that is. Not that I ever have an opinion about anything.....tee hee. I promise to keep in check and share

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At Olde Baggs, I reported that we had gone to northern NM to clear our brains. I have so many photos of great vintage fascades that I thought I would bring them here to share with you at Ye Olde Crone's. After all who better to appreciate a good old front than an old crone, right????? tee hee These pictures came with a price. I had to listen to Mr. Oblivious, former known as Sweet Man squeal

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Between this blog and Olde Baggs n Stuft Shirts, I am participating in 4 Octoberish events and 1 Dia de Los Muertos blog event. Slacker you say??????? Nicely enough, there will be some overlap of partying. And because I am tearing about, trying to get my Octoberish stuff all in one pile to play, I am going to send you to my wickediest darlings blog to check out the possibilities. Magaly at Pagan

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Chaos is in the eye of the beholder. One person's disarray is another person's comfortable place. "Don't throw your trash in my backyard, my backyard, my backyard. Don't throw your trash in my backyard, my backyard's full." A favorite kid's song entitled Fish Heads.  Vintage celluloid whisk broom from an Etsy seller Tuckers Primitives For me Autumn is time of gathering, collecting,

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Please visit my "arting" blog here to see my posting for the Practical Magic blog party at Practically Magickal. There you can see how to win chocolate frogs and midnight margarita glasses. Thanks. Here' a favorite quote from the movie: Aunt Jet: He's squatting inside her like a toad. This is what comes from dabbling. You can't practice witchcraft while you look down your nose at it.

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Autumn Equinox, Mabon, Second Harvest has continued to grow in importance in my life as I get older. Go figure. But I do believe, in my own life, I have arrived at the door of Winter. I have always been drawn to and drawn comfort from all things autumnal. Nothing makes me happier than to have pumpkins, corn and wheat at the front door, fall leaves on the dining table and the smell of apples and

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Thank you to all the lovelies who came by to visit, saw our gypsy maiden, and then entered the giveaway by leaving a comment.  Van Gogh's Gypsy Caravans I want to thank our host for the party Celia. This was so much fun. I learned so much about the gypsy culture. Got to see wonderful photos including but not limited to fabulous gypsy horses, gypsified environments and artwork done by all of

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I swear, blog partys just keep getting more and more fun. It is always a treat to let the grands have a hand in these deals. GK and Ry are hambones and ya'll are a captive audience. Gives me a chance to do my Mickey Rooney imitation...."let's find a barn and put on a show". And this time the barn wasn't too awful far from what we were doing. You must know we were at our special friends Morning

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Our gypsy dream is all about home.......wherever that may be. The magic, the travel, the color, the style, whatever it is that calls to us in our gypsy dreams, we hope you will find just a bit of that in our pictorial of one certain gypsy maiden's Gypsy Dream. This little gypsy had traveled many, many miles, sat around many, many campfires, listened to many, many stories and always wondered what

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I do know this is the day before the Gypsy Dream blog party but.....well you know that I do love all my followers so much that I thought I would give you all an extra chance at the giveaway prizes for this party. I just love prizes, parties and you especially...... So I have four items for this party. Three, "Not Quite Right"Hearts themed just for this wonderful party and also a deck of lower

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No, this is not a post about child birth, although I do have an interesting tale of the birthing of my girl child. No, this is a post about laboring as in working. Today is Labor Day. That is sort of an oxymoron in this day and age. This is truly my opinion and I am ready for any and all other points of view so bring it on my lovelies. I don't think the worker, as in the one who puts in an

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I usually take the pups outside first thing in the morning and now that the boy has to be at school earlier, I am out with the coming of the sun. So beautiful and fresh this time of year, even if it doesn't last all that long until the heat is upon us once again. This is what greeted me this morning.....a double rainbow (sorry for the wires).  Just moments after I snapped this shot, it was gone.

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I'm having a hard time remembering what happened to summer. I know it started but the rest is just a blur. Joe and I took the kids places and the kids and I went places, did arts and farts and we had a good time but in the mean time...... a. my yard went to hell in hand basket b. my house is not what I would call dirty but there are piles of things that I don't know what to do with and have no

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Hello friends. Ms. Baggs here. I know I still owe you more reports on the adventures with the gnomes and others here at Casa de Cuckoo but this week was taken up with adventures of the shopping kind. The title of this piece is a little misleading in that there are many fruits grown in New Mexico but chile is king. And no, I did not spell that incorrectly. The other spelling is reserved for bowls

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The entire household of Casa de Cuckoo loves us some donkeys. You knew that already. We have a tiny backyard and live in the suburbs so there isn't even a snow balls chance that we would ever own a donkey.....so desperate times call for desperate measures and this is what we did to satisfy our longing for the longears. The herd at Casa de Cuckoo aren't they cute??????? this one is an

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I have been hard at getting ready to open another Etsy shop so that I can have all my destash, vintage, books, stuff and junque....in one place. I've sorted through my "inheritance" such that it was, our unopened moving boxes of unessentials from our move into this house 8 years ago, and years of "oh I'm gonna make thus and so with this upcycle items". We recently moved rooms and I have half a

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Ms. Baggs reporting: I have been on a brief 9 week break from reporting. It's a wonder the folks around here don't take my little adventuring and reporting job away from me. I did get bit lost in the shuffle of life here and did get a little snippy about such. It was the snippitty snit that let me to my serendipitous story of today. While having a good pout on I wandered the shelves, boxes and

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Happy Sunday lovelies.   The girls have gone to amusement park to spin and drop and get dizzy and hopefully not hurl. They have gone with some long time friends (another story for another day). And Ry and I are here enjoying the quiet. Believe it or not, he craves being an only child and so does his sister. So day's like this are perfection. Each gets their own time. As it should be in life.

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Tonight, she draped herself with a white, blue and grey star strewn shawl. Counted 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and proclaimed that we had given her a proper welcome. Hail Moon. Little ones to bed with the song still on their lips and in their hearts....."I see the moon and the moon sees me". 3 older ones to our magick. Thank you Mother for listening to our work. Thank you Mother for listening to our hopes.

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Putting one foot in front of the other and not falling over has been.....ummmm difficult at best. I am still in the throws of an episode of the evil dr porkchop of depression. One moment I'm fine and the next I am crying or screaming. That is a statement I started to type two days ago, before I asked for help. Now today, I am still depressed and still am wobbly but much more in tune with the now

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I would like to introduce you to Maddyrose of Santa and the Mrs. You may already know Maddy but you may find out some new information about her in this homage to all things Christmas in July. She is a talented artist...a lovely person and is my fledgling blog Practically Magickal's  featured artist of July. I invite you to take a peek.

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A year ago today we, the grands, Shelley and I got a call from a friend who is a big animal rescue person. She told us that she had come home from a family reunion in New York to find "the cutest little dog" wandering in her diesel truck repair shop. You know, big rigs, delivery vans, large vehicles. She said the dog had been there, she was told for 4 days just wandering around the greasy shop.

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Got a note this morning from our star reporter. The note read "got some very important personal business pending, will return soon". Now she's got my curiousity peaked. As a wooden head....she may be afraid of the fires. Well I'll do my best to report on her assignment this week. As you may know, New Mexico has more simultaneous wildfires than at any other time in our history. What began with

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Being that this is an editorial I will give my views on the subject. Ms. Crone here to report on a shameful incident. Prejudice in any form is just unacceptable. It matters not whether it is race, color, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disorder or body size. The very first lesson learned by this reporter was that there are three things one must achieve in order to be a good person (

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Due to circumstances that were within our control but simply got away from us because we are not organized enough or some other piece of misinformation.................we will only be reporting on Fridays through the rest of the summer. I know, I know, keep it down. The management has asked us to announce this so that we won't have any subscription cancellations due to non-delivery. You'll get

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Tomorrow evening we will have lavender tea and fresh mint cookies. Watch for the fae and leave them some giftees of thimble cookies and new houses and sparklies in the garden on the north side of the house. So traditionally, Shelley, the grands and I clean up the garden and make sure all is at the ready for the festivities. Pruning back the huge crop of volunteer sunflowers and hollyhocks.

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Please click on the link....here and make sure no one else is looking over your shoulder. Come along now and see what I have for you.

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As you may have noticed, I, Ms. Priscilla Winifred Hortencia Baggs, have been absent from my reporter responsibilities as of late. I shall now tell you of my terrible tale of woe and torment. I am a good employee. I try not to put pressure on my employer as to the state of the office but from time to time....well I must say it does get a bit much. The drawings and projects and busy work on

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I've had three days of migraines.....haven't had any in months.....what is going on? I know the burning of Arizona has a lot to do with it but it is more than that. I feel like I should eat my own leg off or something. I'm trapped in my own head. Too much to do...not enough time or energy to complete it all the way I would like...blah,blah,blah. I have lost more things than I have found since we

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Don and Justina are a fabulously friendly, warm and welcoming couple. They introduced us to Da Boyz (donkeys), the kids (their dogs), the goats and the ducks and made us feel like old friends right away. We had a blast. Don and Justina looking at themselves as King Oberon and Queen Titania  Ry and Gerea just couldn't get enough of the long ears and even got to go for a ride on Big Red. GK

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Back a few months ago at Olde Baggs n Stuft shirts, we brought the plight of donkeys being used as roping "dumbies" to your attention and asked for your assistance in a letter writing campaign. Thanks to all who helped and thanks for all the good thoughts for the sweet donkey named Patrick. If you missed that post here's a link. After Ry had fallen in love with Patrick because he voiced the

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One of the advantages of still being in the same area that I grew up in and have spent the majority of the last 40 years, is that I have stories and information regarding just about every day trip that we make with the grands. The same thing is the disadvantage. Let me interject here that I have a trivial pursuit brain. Big stuff, important stuff has always run through the holes of my mental

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http://originalartstudio.blogspot.com/2011/06/comment-solution-worth-giving-try.html This blog has a couple of ways to get around the no comment problem....try them. I used the second and viola I can comment and not be anonymous.

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I do know that there are several of you who are "cross overs" from my other blog Linda Oma's Olde Baggs n Stuft Shirts and I also know some of you are scratching your heads and saying HUH???? What, she writes more drivel than this......and the answer is, "yes in deedy I do". I wanted to invite those of you who would like to enter my second anniversary blogging giveaway to do so at this link and

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"Water is just coffee that has not reached it's full potential".......COFFEE ON YA'LL

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I haven't really given you a story or a tale in quite awhile and since this is a day of sharing friendship, I'll go for it and give you one from my childhood. As the youngest by 11 and 12 years of three kids, I was raised basically as an only. My sister was married and out of the house by her senior year of high school and right after my brother graduated he went into the Air Force. So at 6, I

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GK has graduated from the 5th grade and will be in midde school this fall. Her graduation was a little uneventful in comparison to other events I have attended for kids making a move from elementary school to middle school.....but then it's that school. It was as though the principal had to make another check mark on a requirements list for central office and so hundreds of adults came to see

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We are in the middle of the switching of the living room and the dining room, with a side order of craft area. Should be back mid week. Happy Weekend "It's been a tough week this morning"  Maxine

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If you can't be a good example then just be a horrible warning.

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Do you know what you get when you cross Ms. Baggs and Maxine? Attitude I can rise and shine, but not at the same time.

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Editors note: I never expected for this blog to be used for anything but a bitch and moan meme but I can't stay upset for too long (with the exception of one particular group located in the Palmetto state) and this has turned out to be sorta fun. So here we are 200+ posts later. I also must point out that this morning, out of the clear blue sky, came this post, back from the never, neverland of

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I had these thoughts posted last Wedneday night and had saved them to post on Thursday....you know the day that Blogger died. The great Blogger crash of '11. I have been slightly petulant and not gone to all the trouble to repost until today...just because that is how I am. Ms. Crone accompanied GK and I on our hookey day and I'll share the posting of the lunch time activities and then on

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Let me first say, I am sorry that you in the middle part of the country and eastward from NM will be getting another batch of windy wet weather in the next few days. There is so much flooding east of here and we are in drought conditions.....somehow it just doesn't ever make sense, does it? Knowing that traditionally and according to the Farmer's Almanac the last winter weather we have here is 28

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The names in this tale of deceit and conivery (yeah I know it's not a word) have been changed to protect the guilty. When someone to whom I am related was a younger child. That person used to love to frequent certain retail establishments....we that person did not have a choice since I was driving and that person was a baby, toddler, and then young child. Today that person spent the day AWOL

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New Mexico has a section of the Rocky Mountains that run the length of the state. In Albuquerque there are two sections of the Rocky Mountains. The Sandia (watermelon) Mts. and the Manzano (apple) Mts. All of the mountainous terrain was caused by geologic activity and not surprisingly we also have the remnants of volcanic activity in the state. On the western border of Abq. lie the volcanic

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We have moved on to warmer days since these pictures were taken but my office assistants simply love to warm chairs and curl up while I do my Etsy thing, my Ebay thing, my waste time on the Blogosphere thing. They always want to be where I am. When I make the move to the "arting" area....it's like a little parade of critters following me. We then turn on the fish light, and settle ourselves

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We went junking the other day and took Ms. Crone with us. a present for Ry She has been a little difficult to deal with as of late so the pictures and reporting have been put on the back burner. She has developed a bit of an attitude. It must have been the fact that she wasn't invited to the Royal Wedding. Or maybe it's the laziness of the office staff. You know how old woman get. Or maybe

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From time to time I have let my "real" feelings be known at this particular venue. And tonight is going to be one of those times. I have, as you all know, been married to the same man for much more than half my life. Almost 40 years truth be told. And in all that time, I have never really understood him. I love him, I have fun with him, I treasure the fact that he has put up with my shenanigans

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This time I was taken to lunch for Oma's birthday with her very good friend Ms. Mildred. This woman is such a delight to talk to and is my contemporary and so we had lots in common. She and her Mother came here in the late 40's on Route 66 and traveled around the southwest and discovered a real passion for the tri cultures of the area. She is a walking encyclopedia concerning Mimbres pottery of

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How funny is Ms. Baggs, she refused to join us for our Sunday doings. I think she had a prior engagement with another group of friends. Maybe she'll fill us in on Monday. Well we are in process of making a nice dinner for Sweet Man when he gets home from work around 4pm. We're having baked ham, pineapple casserole from (Cordelia's Cauldron), homemade rolls, the necessary green vegetable of the

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This story is a little late. I mean for goodness sake we were there two weeks ago but it was best to let the heat disapate after the sexiness of it all. I know there is a notion that when there is snow on the roof that the fire isn't very strong in the heater anymore but you couldn't be more wrong. I personally have always appreciated a good looking man and am never embarrassed to enjoy the view

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Now these pictures are real. No one was harmed in the making of this blog post and all concerned made it back alive. This reporter has never experienced an up close viewing of wild animals of the fashion before. I have as you well know seen llamas, horses, donkeys, camels and also chickens. But never had I encountered such a dirty and ominous critter until this week. Oma and GK were grinning and

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Needless to say I am a sedentary old fool for the most part. My legs, my back, my well you get it. I am in pain 97% of the time. So? Fibro and fat have done me in. So most of the time, I miss out on the great adventures that are had by the 3 Musketeers on the weekends. They go hither and yon and I stay home and do arting stuff. This whole thing started when I told the grands.....sometimes when

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Like we have time on our hands and nothing else to do right????? For quite some time now, a few friends on the Blogosphere and I have been playing a strange if not mind boggling game with the idiot verification words that appear on some folks blogs. You know the ones where you sometimes have to type your whole message again because the vert word comes up just as your pressing send? I have read

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One of my all time favs on the blogosphere challenged me to this little bit of fun and frivolity. The lovely and dangerous Dark Mother Goddess.....or dawk mudder as we refer to her, I think she thought I might have some bizarre folks to a dinner partee. Here are the rules (there are always rules, have ya noticed that???). Choose 6 people, living or dead, that you'd like to invite over for dinner

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We have been quite busy here at YOCG. It's not just the office work but all the trips out to do stories on the business's of interest. Last week we ventured into a store that neither Oma nor Poison had been in previously. Which confidentially was quite obvious from their lack of decorum when it came to shouting from various parts of the store, "oh you gotta see this, and come and see this one". 

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I didn't go into what I had gotten for my birthday last week. Because....well I just didn't. But then I got a package from a dear friend in the Netherlands and I just had to share and let you see what she sent. Her name is Dawny, she is a gift of love from my bestie Donna of So Dark So Cute fame. I just love this little love bunny. I adore getting toys, it's what I am all about. As though you

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I'm just enamored of the fae. What's not to love. Whether they are ornery or fluttery, blessed or a blessing, real to you or imagined by others. I have a whole outside garden devoted to my faery friends. Most all of that garden is wild and fanciful. I don't know how to garden any other way. Sometimes the joy is in the interloper winning and the planned being the underdog. Last years garden was

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Hope this edition of YOCG finds all of you well. Part of the 5 person road crew, Oma Linda head photog and the map holder/drink carrier/good looking one, Poison Mom took me out to lunch today. The others were off at their real day jobs. I mean we did have office duties to preform but these two are too funny together to miss an opportunity to escape the drudgery of the office, have a laugh and

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All of you received Ms. Baggs, our new reporter with such enthusiasm that I thought I'd like to introduce you to some of the other staff members of Ye Olde Crone's Gazette. We're a little weekly right now but who's to know, we might work our way up to being a medium size weekly one day. Ellie Mae being fooled into being still.......momentarily Odin, holding the grass down The Office staff

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