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A little more white today
Too bad, we were hoping to do some burning
Also plus one. So neat how it can snow above freezing here
 
Northwind said:
I have cousins I don't know. We didn't see my dad's sister much and really only saw her kids on occasional family gatherings years ago. Ironically, I recognized the eldest first at our grandmother's funeral. He looked a lot like my father. I get to see another cousin fairly often. She lives in the same town as I do. Her parents live an hour away so we get to see them often too. He's my father's brother who was born fifteen years after my father.
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We once had neighbours who had LOTS of kids (his, hers, theirs) over many years. The oldest met the youngest for the first time at the youngest kids wedding. The older one had grown up and moved away before the youngest was born.
 
KayTheCurler said:
We once had neighbours who had LOTS of kids (his, hers, theirs) over many years. The oldest met the youngest for the first time at the youngest kids wedding. The older one had grown up and moved away before the youngest was born.
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My neighbours were like that. Immigrants from Europe who came to North America after the war. Their youngest was the same age as me and a friend of mine. He became an uncle before he started high school due to the big age gap between him and his eldest brother.
 
Mendalla said:
My neighbours were like that. Immigrants from Europe who came to North America after the war. Their youngest was the same age as me and a friend of mine. He became an uncle before he started high school due to the big age gap between him and his eldest brother.
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Two boys in my class at school were both nine. One was uncle to the other. The uncle was the younger one of the pair by a few weeks.
 
I have quite a few first cousins, all in the U.K. Have met them all at least once, but I've lost touch with all but a few (My fav cuz ever, Mart - his siblings to some extent, and one cousin my age from Dad's family).
 
It is so cool here with the kids

There are a lot of what I call free range kids

They are akin to free electrons; we know who they belong to, but their birthparents aren't always with them

Most dense collection of free range kids I have ever seen
 
Is divisive ness of the divine Gods as separated about to take the mortal grounds of conflict down in flames ... proving the burnt earth theology to be cooked up? Yet still, piously, we cannot gather because such collectives cause authorized god paranoia ... especially about things that tax their sense of being!

Consequence: ... un being ... better know and not WOKE!

If consequence is denied ... nothing will follow the sequence of belief! So parts ... go their way ... allowing bifurcation and split hare ... splitters? Mores to comprehend ... yeti note it is denied and eliminated from potentials ... eclectic? Scattered ...

If you wish it it doth blow ...
 
Good morning! Happy Friday! Discussion of funerals, cousins, cousins we grew up with, cousins we have never met... this and all the stuff that will come up today comes with us to the Coffee Cart, for chat, support, and the odd laugh or tear. We gather in spirit to enjoy each other's company, and to drink coffee and tea, and indulge in doughnuts. The coffee is fresh made, tea water boiling, and doughnuts warm from the oven. Come join the fun! All are welcome, all is ready.

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Redbaron said:
Good morning! Happy Friday! Discussion of funerals, cousins, cousins we grew up with, cousins we have never met... this and all the stuff that will come up today comes with us to the Coffee Cart, for chat, support, and the odd laugh or tear. We gather in spirit to enjoy each other's company, and to drink coffee and tea, and indulge in doughnuts. The coffee is fresh made, tea water boiling, and doughnuts warm from the oven. Come join the fun! All are welcome, all is ready.

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]
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Question is ... is it western, American or Kahn Uche 'd ... OCH 'd? Thus sol don ide! We move ... creepy? Viscous ...
 
Redbaron said:
Good morning! Happy Friday! Discussion of funerals, cousins, cousins we grew up with, cousins we have never met... this and all the stuff that will come up today comes with us to the Coffee Cart, for chat, support, and the odd laugh or tear. We gather in spirit to enjoy each other's company, and to drink coffee and tea, and indulge in doughnuts. The coffee is fresh made, tea water boiling, and doughnuts warm from the oven. Come join the fun! All are welcome, all is ready.

C(_)/ c(_) c\_/ c[_]
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Will join in the fun
 
Delightful Life said:
It is so cool here with the kids

There are a lot of what I call free range kids

They are akin to free electrons; we know who they belong to, but their birthparents aren't always with them

Most dense collection of free range kids I have ever seen
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You don't see that much anymore. In my youth, that was kind of the norm. The playground behind my street full of groups of kids coming and going and so on. Kids running to and from friends' houses. And so on.

Here, the playground is often full of kids but there are usually parents hovering nearby. Exception seems to be the tennis courts and basketball hoop but those are also usually teens, not younger kids.

I do seem to see more kids out and about nowadays but that might just be that we getting young families around here again. When my son and his generation skittered off to university and life, the area got kind of "old" for a while. Now we have the boomers and Gen X'ers in the area moving out and Gen Y and Z moving in, often with young families.

Good morning. After a chilly end to yesterday and a light sprinkling of snow, we are back to warmer temps today. Not as warm as the beginning of the week, but enough to get rid of that light sprinkling fairly quickly.
 
Good morning. It has been raining through the night. It's March break here so the park has more kids and families here. They seem to be enjoying themselves. A friend will be spending the weekend here to celebrate her birthday. She's a cancer buddy so her birthday is pretty important. I'm not sure what is in the plans for me. I'll take it moment by moment.

We had a great lunch and visit yesterday with visiting friends. People who also know @GordW They continued up the highway for more visiting.
 
It’s been two weeks now that my old neighbour is in the hospital actively dying. He looks like he is having his last breath any minute, but then is still there the next day. Maybe he is waiting for his son to show up, but his son will not come, hasn’t seen him in years and has told his sister he doesn’t want to see him like that.
This is following me into my dreams and I think I have to back up a bit. The daughter and wife are visiting twice a day.
My best friends mother has died at 91. Thankfully it was fast.
My sister had her CT which showed that the cancer hasn’t shrunk, but the mets have. That is at least a good sign.
Today was my grand daughter’s “ Wetting of the head”- though nobody actually did it. But everybody was wetting their throat and had some pub food.
 
Delightful Life said:
It is so cool here with the kids

There are a lot of what I call free range kids

They are akin to free electrons; we know who they belong to, but their birthparents aren't always with them

Most dense collection of free range kids I have ever seen
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There are totally places where that is safe, but other places where it's not so safe. I found kids to be better off if they were in some sort of group. I had two, one had a bestie with a young bro, there were another 2-3 rando friends of each on the edge of this, so there were always kids with kids, and usually older-ish (+8) one around. But we lived near a busy road, and there was smallish mall within walking distance, so you need to balance safe with free-range. My late husband would never have let them go out of the house. He was the totally hilariously cotton wool parent.
 
It's gone now, and I know that it largely won't be back, and we'll be griping about the heat, but I had to scrape my car this morning at 10:20 a.m. Yuck.
 
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