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Sap Run

3/31/2015

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"A sap-run is the sweet good-by of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.”
  ~~John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons, 1886
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After school, I took some time for a walk through Douglas-Hart Nature Center.
The sap is running and they have tapped the maples.
A bucket of sweet goodness...
~Nancy ~ 90/365
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Rams Baseball

3/30/2015

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"I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile."
  ~~Tom Clark
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First base...
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Safely back to first...
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Stealing second...
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At shortstop.
Garrett's a junior now.
It seems whatever sport he is playing,
that is his favorite...

~Nancy (Nana) ~ 89/365

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Great-Granddad

3/25/2015

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"It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it."
  ~~Robert E. Lee
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My husband is from Pennsylvania and both his maternal and paternal great-grandfathers fought in the Civil War. As we were packing up my mother-in-law's belongings helping her move from her  home in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, we found an old box with a hat inside. Lifting the lid, we discovered it was the cap from the uniform of the Civil War veteran's organization, the Grand Army of the Republic. A scrolled document confirmed it belonged to John I. Sims, my father-in-law's grandfather. My sister-in-law thought I should take it since I taught American history and have always been interested in "The War Between the States". I took the box and the hat home, and I kept it safe in my cedar chest for many years. 

Then one Memorial Day, I needed a picture. I thought of the scrolled document and the hat, and took out the box. As I carefully lifted out the hat, I found another hat tucked inside. It was John Sim's uniform cap and was in perfect condition having been stored safely inside for more than 100 years.

I packed up both hats and the documents this week. They have a new home with my niece and her son. Alex who is fascinated by anything military. He doesn't know it's going to arrive, and she promised to take pictures when he opens the box. I hope to share...

~Aunt Nancy ~ 84/365
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A State Smile

3/24/2015

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"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
  ~~Denis Waitley

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State Medalists.
One was earned playing as hard as she could,

and the other was earned encouraging and cheering from the bleachers.
(Actually he is Mr. Smith, the superintendent a.k.a. Ashton's Dad.)
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She is always smiling...
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Her best serve...
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The 2015 Tuscola East Prairie Hornets are the first team to bring home a medal at the state level...
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Congratulations with a medal.
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It takes a team, the coaches, and the fans...
~Nancy ~ Grandma Mi~83/365
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Are You Clapping?

3/23/2015

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"If you want to be happy, be."
  ~~Leo Tolstoy
Workin' on it...
~Nancy ~ 82/365
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Wind Travel

3/22/2015

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"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. 
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."
  ~~Norman Vincent Peale
I know I will be pulling the little vines that will grow from these seeds in the spring.
There is no way to contain them on this windy March day.
~Nancy ~ 82/365
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Small Town, USA

3/21/2015

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“Living in a small town...is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations.
Sometimes it’s fun, and sometimes it’s perfectly awful, but it’s always good for you.
People in large towns are like only-children.”
― Joyce Dennys, Henrietta Sees It Through: More News from the Home Front 1942-1945

I remember when this water tower was the biggest news in town.
That was forty years ago...
~Nancy ~ 80/365
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Sweet ROYGBIV

3/20/2015

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"Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world.
Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak.
Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up."
   ~~Allen Klein
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The walls at North Ward School in Tuscola are filled with color.
We are all so thankful for Mrs. Flavin and the Students of North Ward Elementary for bringing color to our world during the bleakest of gray days...
~Nancy ~ 79/365

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Beauty in a Box

3/20/2015

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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, "Molly Bawn"-1878

I can think of many people whose response would be, "Whatever..."
I've been folding socks with the "army fold and roll" since I was old enough to fold socks.
It was our culture.
The only trouble was that the "folded over" sock was always sort of stretched out on the top
even before you wore it.
This little gem of a YouTube video was lurking on the sidebar begging me to watch.
It was grouped in with the Konmari videos, and it reminds me of origami + folding socks.
On this rainy, dreary, sort of very gray day,
I refolded some socks.
I bring to you my "thing of beauty".
~Nancy ~ 78/365
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Too Soon

3/18/2015

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“The earth laughs in flowers.”
  ~~Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Monday they were miniature suns open and bright.
Today they are all closed up waiting for spring to return...
~Nancy ~ 77/365

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