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7 Tips for Taking Your Grandchildren on an Outing
My husband, being the awesome grandpa and uncle that he is, decided we should take our 2 grandchildren and some of their cousins on an outing. We live near Out of Africa, a very well-known but privately owned wildlife park, and that’s where we decided to take all the little munchkins. Shalom was so excited! Unfortunately, Hudson was ill and unable to come. They may look oh, so quiet but I can reassure you THEY WERE NOT!! It was a very noisy but fun ride to our destination! Shalom and her cousin were quite happy to be together. Here we come to my first tip. Tip…
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The Castle Keeper Girls Go Fruit Picking
This time of year the citrus is plentiful here in Arizona so the Castle Keeper girls took advantage of it and spent a morning picking as much as they wanted of lemons, grapefruits, oranges and tangerines. We first obtained permission from the home owners and then we got to picking. It’s been wonderful having fresh squeezed grapefruit and orange juice every morning for the past several weeks. Besides juicing the fruit, I sliced oranges and lemons and flash froze them before placing them in plastic bags. When I want to use them I cut them in half and add them to glasses of water. The other way…
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Putting Our Vehicles Through All Kinds of Tests
Finally we reached a decision on what outing we wanted to do with some young people that were staying at our place. We had headed out the door, leaving behind our 4WD Open-top Blazer that is sitting in a sad state since it is not working properly at the moment. I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with it but it’s something rather serious like the steering wheel shaft is broken. Yeah, not so good. So off we go in 2 trucks. Less than 2 miles from our house, Seth’s ball joint on the axle broke. The whole axle fell – plop! – right in the middle of the road. …
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The Day I Met the Police
We had a perfectly good freeway intersection where we could enter and exit with ease. Back a few years ago they decided it needed reworked. No one can figure out why. It’s quite confusing and it doesn’t even make sense. Money wasted. Case in point about how confusing it can be to us locals… I was headed to the town adjacent to the freeway junction and came to the sign that said Phoenix straight ahead or Flagstaff to the right. The little town I wanted is not on the sign and not thinking, I took the Phoenix route. It was a wrong decision. Flagstaff was the road that would…
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A Baby Born
Happy New Year! 2018 started off pretty special for us because we had another little granddaughter born! Tirza LeAnne was born on Wednesday, January 3 of this new year 2018 Tirza(pronounced “tear-zuh”) means “she is my delight and LeAnne means “princess”. Such a precious beautiful little thing with a fair bit of hair already which is a change after having two that didn’t have much. 8lbs 1oz and 20.5″ long The miracle of life. And Grammy is delighted with this princess.
