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Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 3 Jan

What a start to the new year! This evening I changed the bedsheets (didn’t need my asthma medication afterwards, either! ) and did a load of laundry. A little cleaning, too. See the pretty, colorful blanket? That...

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Sunday Evening Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 24 Aug

Wow, what a shocking morning. As I was getting on the interstate to head for Chuy’s, the car ahead of me suddenly caught fire. I’m not talking smoking for half a mile then sparking. NO. This thing had a fireball coming out...

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Monday Evening Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 21 Jul

Ah, the rabbit holes. Let me show you how my mind works. The other day I was watching a clip from an episode of M*A*S*H, where Charles took a captain to task for making fun of a young soldier who stuttered. It turned...

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Friday Night Muse

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 20 Jun

The discussion title is a play on John Conlee’s song “Friday Night Blues.” Oh, I don’t have the blues. I had a great day today. My annual physical with my “civilian” doctor (she’s not affiliated with the VA, which is why I...

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What I have been feeling

Aparna Sen @Dreamerby (10111) • Calcutta, India 5 Apr 25

I'm going through a difficult phase right now. I’m not enjoying what I’m doing, and my health hasn’t been great either. I don’t feel at peace with myself. Lately, I’ve been in a bit of denial-escaping into storybooks as a way to...

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The weight of unseen tomorrows

Aparna Sen @Dreamerby (10111) • Calcutta, India 3 Mar 25

There are days when you wish you could skip ahead - when you question why you even got out of bed. The future looms like a lingering vortex of uncertainty, and you wonder if there's truly a light at the end of the tunnel. But...

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Busy Little Beaver

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 27 Feb 25

Every year about this time the car gets a clean-out. Not so much vacuuming, but medication that I carry for an emergency and my first aid kit get examined for expiration dates. Normally I’m not a wasteful person, but I do like...

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Midweek Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 26 Feb 25

Greetings from the dealership! Traveling means oil changes. Oil changes mean long life for the car. The other day @TheHorse said something about a little old lady trying to run him down in a parking lot. I mentioned that I...

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Monday Morning Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 24 Feb 25

Well…technically Monday afternoon now, because I’ve been goofing off at lunch. But it’s Monday, blah. And, for you hard-working folks who wonder, YES, retired people don’t like Mondays, either....

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Most Productive Day!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 22 Feb 25

That’s a sunset from a trip to the Smokies a few years ago. The sun has set on this week, and yesterday was a most productive one. In an earlier discussion I mentioned waiting for Social Security to call me back. They did, and...

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BIKINI WEATHER!!!!!

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 20 Feb 25

Hey, hey! I told my brother that I was out in the back yard in my bikini*!! (*Asterisk: I had six layers of clothes on over it. ) It’s just too cold to go out today, so I stayed home, had two Boca burgers (for...

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Wednesday Afternoon Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 19 Feb 25

Hi, everyone! Wow, I had to stop and take a break from shoveling that 4-8” of sn*w we got overnight!!! That is sarcasm: we got maybe an inch. They missed that forecast BIG TIME…and I couldn’t be happier....

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Sunday Evening Yuckings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 5 Jan 25

Yuck. That’s a yardstick in my back yard when I went out to feed the squirrels and put dry food out for the cats. That’s about 7 1/2” of yuck. I watched the update from the local station about an hour ago. They said...

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Saturday Night’s All Right for Musing

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 4 Jan 25

One of the benefits of being a weather geek is that I knew this storm was predicted last week. While grocery stores were out of bread and milk and there were long lines at the gas stations, I spent Saturday preparing in a...

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Thursday Evening Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 26 Sep 24

Good evening, everyone. First, for the folks in Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and even here in Kentucky: praying for y’all. Helene is a monster. Earlier today it was 255 miles west of Tampa and...

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Tuesday Evening Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 4 Jun 24

This “responsible adult” stuff stinks! It cost me nearly $500 today. Just kidding…not about the price, but about “complaining.” I got my car maintenance done today, and I usually get the three oil changes/tire...

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Midweek Something-or-Anothers

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 14 Feb 24

Well, here it is, Valentine’s Day! And Ash Wednesday, so people giving up chocolate for Lent are hosed, aren’t they! It’s been a different week for me. Sunday I was celebrating that Superb Owl they were all talking...

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Monday Evening

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 29 Jan 24

Run for the hills!!! I’m experimenting in the kitchen!!!! When I was a kid my mom made salmon croquettes. I can’t eat fish anymore due to allergies, so why not try a chicken croquette? It’s sitting over...

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New Year, New Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 4 Jan 24

Happy 2024, y’all! I’ve been dealing with a sinus infection since just before Christmas. All of the drippity-do-dah has resulted in laryngitis now. Well, it’s okay, because I don’t have a lot to say…and I can still type....

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Midweek Musings

Four Walls @FourWalls (86775) • United States 20 Dec 23

Happy anniversary!! Yes, it was three years ago today that I was diagnosed with COVID-19. I’m very thankful that I had a mild case that was confined to my gut. I never had any respiratory issues. Those were the days: the local...

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