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Feb 5, 2012, 10:33 pm
The sun came out around our little island so we all slacked off on our medsjust as everyone sat down with their beer and their chips to watch football, I got the fam out and about.
I confess, I’ve been going a little stir crazy this winter. You?
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Feb 1, 2012, 3:52 am
Just so you know, the Hubs said I shouldn’t blog about this, so Hello! You’d think he’d have learned by now….
This post is brought to you by Facebook and its new anti-privacy rules, because it was a friend of a friend who I have never heard of who posted this photo and my friend, a guy I ac... Comment - Like
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Jan 26, 2012, 11:36 am
[Warning: she's getting her bitch on]
I took the Kid to see Hugo in 3D after ripping into our lottery winnings in our mattress. The movie was great in a very dontwealllovethemovies kinda way. If you go, be on time or you’ll never have me as your movie date because the opening shot in 3D is the hi... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2011, 7:02 pm
... with this thought: We think of shame as a very human quality with some ... be feeling it more…; nonetheless anyone with a pet knows that animals must experience shame at some beast-like level, ... wall-style graphic.Maybe not worth a thousand words, but you get the ... in the living room... Comment - Like
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Dec 4, 2011, 4:42 am
I have a dear nutcase friend who recently suggested that several of us mothers take their daughters after school on a rotating basis and teach them…something.
I agreed even though like you readers have been saying I don’t really know anything.
But the other moms desperate for their own kids t... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2011, 9:21 pm
In case you didn’t know, it is almost December. Which means it is almost the end of 2011. Which means another, nauseating round of the Year in Reviews permeating the airwaves and those tubes on the interwebz.
Does anyone like endings? They seem to just stress us out and make us reach for a big, s... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2011, 6:01 pm
I hope it’s not just my kid. I hope I didn’t give birth to the world’s biggest drama queen. And I hope it’s not genetic since I’m a cool cucumber all the time. I hope other 8-year-old girls have friendships like this:
My weak and sober heart just can’t take the brutality of it all.
Who... Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2011, 2:34 pm
I know. It’s been hard to sleep, hasn’t it?
What with all the pumpkin decomposing going on.
When we last joined our garbage on the porch story, Vampire Kitty was looking a bit saggy, a bit un-Botoxed British actress-y. And Dog Pumpkin had its dark side growing from within.
Let’s see how th... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2011, 6:33 pm
Here at Chez Let the Dog in! we have certain lazy people issues. Particularly around throwing things away. You may recall a certain pot on the deck that sat and sat and eventually got a shiny, new girlfriend in the spring!
Well, it’s November 5th, and guess what?! We have some gourd-ous decomposi... Comment - Like
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Oct 31, 2011, 12:35 am
Idiots come in many forms; sometimes, they can even be spotted in my a mirror.
But every now and then one pops up from the outside, directly in your face.
And what is a blog for if not to vent about idiots? I mean, really, I could lose my blogger membership card if I miss this opportunity.
Here... Comment - Like
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Oct 27, 2011, 12:45 pm
It’s a fact of life: cities are noisy and towns are quiet except for my dog barking all the time. We all accept that, don’t we?
But no! New York is trying to keep the noise level down now by reminding its cab drivers that their horns or “claxon” (really, cab drivers barely speak English and... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2011, 8:44 pm
Time passes, seasons change (heard any leaves pop off lately?), and as if part of the natural course of things, the Kid has gotten craftier.
One thing of a gazillion around here that she ignores me on is that all-time kid-favorite activity: brushing her teeth.
Luckily, her haphazard dental habit h... Comment - Like
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Oct 14, 2011, 10:18 am
Who’s that in our tree?
He swooped in silently.
He hopped to another tree.
So exciting! The first barred owl I’ve seen in our yard, and we’ve lived here nine years.
Dooooood, have we got some mice for you!
The garage is this way….
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Oct 9, 2011, 11:07 pm
A Star Was Born…
Happy Birthday, Becca…or Beccaboohoo for short!
Thanks for all the great beach walks, park runs counter-surfing adventures , bed-hogging and nostril/brain licks.
Here’s to ten more years, Boo Boo, of letting you in.
We love you.
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Oct 6, 2011, 4:59 am
Hey, y’all! You’ll never guess where I dragged the fam last weekend!
Oh, that’s right, I changed the title of this post…duh.
Yes! We went to the Port Townsend Kinetic Sculpture Race!
It was my first time. I was a kinetic sculpture race virgin.
And what is a kinetic sculpture race?
Just ... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2011, 6:45 pm
Lots of bloggers like me folks online are waiting to be discovered, hit the big time, be rich, be applauded be given free maid service and car detailing for life.
Well, years have passed with this here blog…and I’m still waiting.
*fingernails tap tap tapping*
In fact, this week officially mark... Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 4:41 pm
Kitsap County, the county where we live, has a fun little junk food court fair. Not as big as my native Texas State Fair, but I take the Kid every year so I can eat freshly dipped corn dogs as big as my head to see the animals and ride the rides.
Just a regular, old slice of Norman Rockwell.
But ... Comment - Like
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Aug 24, 2011, 10:41 pm
[Readers, a survey! If you're blogging not about your crazy kids, but your crazy husband, what does that make you? a bitch? a hubbyblogger?]
Let me first say that I am not opposed to personalized ringtones unless they’re stupid or they annoy me.
I, in fact, have a few special ringtones because h... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2011, 12:29 am
It’s time I confessed. See, there is something I’m ashamed to admit.
I don’t know why. I mean, others have probably gone through the exact same thing. Why should I want to hide it?
I’m talking about my case of PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and absolutely nothing else.
What eve... Comment - Like
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Aug 9, 2011, 10:13 pm
He may have his own 18th century view of parenting, but I gotta hand it to the Hubs. He has figured things out with the Kid.
We all know he’s a total Alaskan gearhead (and I have the blog posts to prove it…), so natch, he’s got a cross- oops, I’ve been corrected compound bow. And plenty of ... Comment - Like
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Aug 3, 2011, 4:07 am
Ever go to wikihow.com? I was searching for ideas on how to hide tattoos fun children’s activities when I stumbled on this: How to Sew a Cloak for Your Cat.
Or, as I like to think of it, A Modern Suicide Modality.
I had a roommate who dressed her cats up for every holiday. Yes, little Joey and... Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2011, 11:36 am
Sure, by now you’ve seen the tiny, sneezing baby panda, but have you seen a black and white fuzzy version of my allergy attack of an adult panda sneezing fit?
I confess my 7 going on 27 year old told me about it. The police grandparents will be glad to know her online video searching skills have ... Comment - Like
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Jul 20, 2011, 2:25 pm
OK, let this be a lesson to you all.
Be as clear as possible when stating to the Universe what you want.
Sure, I may have said, “It’d be great to have a couple of extra bucks right about now, Universe.”
But I didn’t mean this:
Or this:
But the Hubs didn’t load fast enough they are ... Comment - Like
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Jul 13, 2011, 11:07 am
As you may know by now, the Hubs grew up with wolves in Alaska, roaming the silent woods, hunting, tracking, fishing, baying at the moon, and generally giving an excellent impersonation of Huck Finn.
Whereas, yours truly grew up in residential Dallas, Texas, with curbs and sidewalks, roaming the su... Comment - Like
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Jul 7, 2011, 12:26 am
Thoughts on Friendship
“True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.”
- Samuel Johnston
“My friends are my estate.”
- Emily Dickinson
“I count myself in nothing else so happy
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.”
- William Shakespe... Comment - Like
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Jul 1, 2011, 2:06 am
Last weekend, I dragged the Let the dog in! household to a civil war re-enactment, but since the civil war was more sad than funny I know nothing about the civil war, how’s about we talk s’more about summer with the kids out of school, ‘k??
It starts off with a gorgeous image, a vision of cal... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2011, 10:53 am
Are you having this problem? In your head, you figured when school let out that you and your kids would do all kinds of amazing projects, day trips, maybe even camping?
Then, two days into it you realize you have serious crankiness issues.
And not just with the kids, but with yourself.
We were g... Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2011, 11:35 am
[Warning: this post is not G rated. But it's summer, the Kid is out of school, nerves are strained...so I'm allowed.]
It only takes a few years or months, or days of commingling and canoodling with the opposite sex for it to become incredibly clear that this man-woman stuff involves some emotional ... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2011, 4:44 pm
Recently a friend okay, fine, it was me accidentally probably just misplaced for an indeterminate period of time threw away a government document relating to an automobile. Ahem.
So, what’s a law-abiding citizen to do? Call the governmental office? Get the low down on such situations?
As if. It... Comment - Like
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Jun 9, 2011, 4:49 pm
This week I in a fit of delusion volunteered to chaperone the asylum lunatics second graders of my daughter’s school on their field trip to the Seattle Aquarium.
I thought it’d be fun. I love marine mammals. I once tended to injured and abandoned marine mammals here.
What I forgot about is all... Comment - Like
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May 31, 2011, 9:01 pm
We had a little visitor today, an uninvited guest, on the deck. An unusual occurrence, just when I happened to have my camera handy.
The Douglas Squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasi... Comment - Like
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May 25, 2011, 8:30 pm
No one told me my family was gonna be a bunch of reckless nuts there’s a competition between the Hubs and the Kid. Last year, the Hubs broke his knee all kinds of ways to Sun... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2011, 4:34 am
Some say Bainbridge Island is just a sleepy, suburban, bedroom community of Seattle a regular Peyton Place of greed, lust and envy.
Actually, we have a long history of farming... Comment - Like
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May 14, 2011, 2:06 am
Hey! Didya notice anything miss me?!
We at chez Let the dog in! packed up and changed planes a bunch took an actual vacation, or “vaca” which is said VAY-KAY, not VAH-KAH,... Comment - Like
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May 5, 2011, 12:34 pm
Lately, the Hubs and I under duress have been watching a series called Everest: Beyond the Limit.
Not surprisingly, our reactions to the 14 kajillion episodes are slightly opp... Comment - Like
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Apr 28, 2011, 9:27 pm
I hate to jinx it but I think that spring has sprung here on Bainbridge Island. All the signs are there.
Plastic eggs have been discovered.
The lawnmower is out.
We’re alr... Comment - Like
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Apr 25, 2011, 11:50 am
Somehow I started explaining what trios and quartets were to the kid the other day who says I can’t home school!.
“Four singers or musicians is called a ‘quartet,’” ... Comment - Like
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Apr 21, 2011, 7:08 pm
Warning: numerous eggs were harmed in the making of this post.
You all know how the Hubs is into all his power tools, right? No task too big or too small to bring some apparat... Comment - Like
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Apr 17, 2011, 10:27 pm
Hey, gang! Because I went to the Field’s End Writers’ Conference this past weekend, you get to benefit!
I went to a breakout session conducted by playwright Elizabeth Heff... Comment - Like
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Apr 13, 2011, 5:51 pm
WARNING: stereotypical mom rant forthcoming!
I’m sure you’ve heard about that doll, the Breast Milk Baby, and I read a few articles on parent reactions to it.
(Hey, it’s got a pacifier! Some parents would object to that!)
I figured all the hub-bub was mostly media created on a slow news day... Comment - Like
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Apr 10, 2011, 1:59 pm
Are your local farmers’ markets up and running now? Ours here on Bainbridge Island just started yesterday under cloudy skies and 46 degree temps, but it started so I might have to stop pretending it’s February and deal with this butt-freezing spring!
If you’d like to see my pictures (there IS... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2011, 1:23 am
Just about once every year, I wish I had gone for Lasik surgery to stop poking my eyes every day have normal eyesight again.
Today was that day.
Where the f#ck can a contact lens go when it pops out of your eyeball in the bathroom? There’s one foot of space between my eyeball/finger and the mirr... Comment - Like
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Apr 3, 2011, 4:14 am
I was watching the dog lick herself the other day and got to wonderin’.
What if your personal care regime was the same as your pet’s?
Think about.
You could bend over and lick your package for instant personal tidiness.
Anywhere, anytime, if you go by my dog’s standard.
You may need hel... Comment - Like
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Mar 27, 2011, 8:49 pm
A couple pulled over today in front of me while I and the pooch were out running. Naturally, my first reaction was to get annoyed.
Who the hell pulls over right in front of a runner and dog? Now I’m gonna have to run even more in the road to go around you people…
Aren’t I special? Not sure w... Comment - Like
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Mar 20, 2011, 4:06 am
Now, I love dogs. But even a die-hard dog fan would admit they come with a certain built-in hassle factor.
Particularly, the lazy, spoiled kind like ours.
For example, just recall the name of this blog.
But potential dog owners should be aware that getting a dog could spell the death of your sex ... Comment - Like
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Mar 14, 2011, 1:23 am
We in the Pacific Northwest have been deluged by rain daily and I’m dying here helpmehelpme. And by “rain” I mean webbed-toe-inducing-gargantuan-puddle-creationism-no-bulb-bright-enough-black-at-noon-depressing storms.
Oh, sure, they come and go. And come back again with a vengeance and waaaa... Comment - Like
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Mar 8, 2011, 1:34 am
Many bloggers like to wear tiaras and be “queen for the day.” Not me. I went to see Queen for a night.
Okay, technically, it was not Queen. After all, the amazing Freddie Mercury has been gone from this plane 20 years November.
But did you know his flashy spirit dips in and sings out of Gary ... Comment - Like
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