ONCE UPON A TIME a friend of mine blessed me with her homemade kitchen scrubbies. Duane, the cook, loved them. They had one side scratchy, the other not. Kathy even made them in colours we preferred. They were nifty! Well, we ran out of them. Duane really favored this type of scrubby… He asked me; the crocheter, to make some. He knew I could. Initially, I said: “No.” I worked with scratchy  yarn before and took no pleasure…..

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  CINNAMON QUANDARY…     ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 29th,  as usual Duane was making breakfast! (God is good!) We had decided on scrambled eggs, sausage, and cinnamon rolls. I like the small ones with lots of that delicious icing. My idea: that’s what I wanted… But at one point the day before he had something negative about my favorite and spoke of the big ones he much preferred. Well, this took pleasure out of it for me. Now…..

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ENJOY HIS KISSES!     SIXTEEN DAYS AND WHAT DO YOU GET…     A LITTLE BIT STINKY and a lot of sweat! When you come home you’d better take a bath… or you will suffer Ann’s wrath! Selah and kidding!   Duane is going to the Boundary Waters with his pals for six days in sixteen days. He has such a great time that he cannot not think about just some of the uncountable glories of God…  What God…..

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      Yesterday at breakfast, I spilled a glass of milk – almost full it was. It landed on the table, the chair, the floor, me…  Upon thinking about it, I was very glad it didn’t land on my dog and/or cat! Also, because of who I am no swear word came to mind: none at all! Selah. There’s one big improvement that saints have over sinners! But this writing is an “Advice For The Wife” because I want…..

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  AND THE WIFE-TO-BE!         Duane and I were married in September, 1979, as some of you know. One of the things that very much impressed me about him was that he was working with special needs people! Even though I was a sinner at the time, I did have some really good values. But remember, I was not holy. And yet God is so remarkable! He had put in me some wonderful values (many of these…..

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      JUST A MOMENT AGO Duane put on a shirt very, very similar to mine…   They are both grey, black, white patterned! Our dog, Tina, also matches us! Before I  thought about Tina matching, I yelled out “Twinzees!”   THEN I TOOK IT FARTHER… telling him, “Because we are twinzees and I was first, today  you have to think exactly as me!” I’ll have to do this much more often!   AND THE WIVES SAY,: AMEN!”  …..

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