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We're off on another Quest through Ravenchase Adventures. This weekend it's the Quest for the Curious. Our team has expanded as our upstairs neighbors and my older daughter will be donning the pink team shirts. As you may recall, when you sign up you get your first clue. The clue must be worked so that you know where to meet and what time. Like puzzles? Then try our first clue. A pdf

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There was no way I could know that these attempts to practice sketching would be the last sketches of our cat Spaulding Gray. She and my honey were catnapping on the sofa on a Saturday afternoon. Come Monday, we knew things weren't right with her and I promised to take her to the vet because my man was out of town for a few days for work-related training. Come Tuesday, Gray was gone. It's

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We were looking for something different to do a few weekends ago and my cousin recommended Ravenchase Adventures. Ravenchase sets up some unusual scavenger-type hunts. You sign up for the event and you receive a clue via email which when you decipher it, you discover where the game begins and at what time. Of course Ravenchase wants to make sure that everyone starts in the right place, so once

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I've been such a blog slakker. Let's see, we went on vacation to the Ocoee River in Tennessee. It's where the Tennesse, North Carolina and Georgia borders come together. How was it? Well it was Grumpy's~Snow white~Whirly Bird~Gonzo Shoals~Broken Nose~Second Helping~Fanny Rock~Moonshoot~Sweet Cheeks~Double Suck~Double Trouble~John and Sue Rock~Left, Right, Left (aka Three Stooges)~Flipper~

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I realized I've been so busy with work and attending the No HOW in Atlanta, that I hadn't written anything about the family reunion I attended. In short it was great to reconnect with my family. I discovered my dad had a ton of information on our family history. We have things traced back at least nine generations. The info goes back to the 1700s and the first guy that came here from Scotland.

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Life has been hard up here in the mountains Few people know the meaning of it Young people died old of hardship and sorrow And learned well the lesson, don’t give up or quit Tonight we're taking my sweetheart's mother to a concert. We had this planned months in advance. I got word from my cousin last week that our annual family reunion had been moved up to this weekend too. Traditionally, the

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I do this sometimes when I'm bored or waiting on something, like now... Look at the least coin in your wallet, pocket or purse. Check the date that it was minted. Think of where you were and what you were doing that year. Do this often and relive forgotten parts of your life. The least coin in my pocket now is a penny. It was minted in 1981. The first of June 1981, I had just graduated

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I'm still researching names...this week I've been toying with what I like to do. I love to kayak. I love water. Lovewater English: Lovewater Spanish: Amoragua French: Aimerleau Italian: Amarelacqua German: LiebenSieWasser Dutch: HoudVanWater

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I have become discontent with using my current surname. It belongs to my ex-husband and every time I have to use it, I am reminded of things I no longer wish to remember. Since I don't have access to the process used in the movie, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.," I am making the necessary changes which are within my power to make. Which brings me back to the surname. For this part of the

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Richmonders and the rest of the world can go birding without leaving their homes on a rainy day. How? Thanks to some strategically placed cameras at the McGuireWoods historic First National Bank Building located at the corner of 9th and Main Streets we can all observe a new brood of Peregrine falcons. We can watch mom and dad falcon feed and care for their young as they grow from being fuzzy

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We attended the annual Easter Parade this past weekend which was rescheduled from the previous week due to anticipated bad weather which never materialized. Some people were upset because organizers had cancelled it at the last minute and the public didn't have time to find out it had been canceled and showed up anyway. It's hard to tell if some people were angry and stayed away this week, but it

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The image above is a stained glass window inside one of the vaults. One of the saddest things that you are reminded of when visiting Hollywood Cemetery is the high rate of infant mortality in Richmond during the 1800s continuing until the mid 1900s. Of course there were terrible epidemics like typhoid fever, scarlet fever and influenza. There are plots containing sometimes whole families that

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The next few posts will be scenes from Hollywood Cemetery As I mentioned before, we have decided to undertake (oh my, such a bad pun) a project. To be exact we are working on a book project about Hollywood with our friend Ashley. Ashley is a very talented handbound bookmaker. I hope she doesn't mind that I am sharing this announcement. I can't contain my excitement about getting to work with her.

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The note read: Diana, The tears will never dry where we cried for you. And in our hearts the sun will always shine on you David January, 26, 2005 We’re working on a project which involves one of our favorite “haunts” here in the city, Hollywood Cemetery. While we were getting some photographs, we stumbled upon a rather odd site. It was a wooden, painted frog, wearing a John Lennon t-shirt.

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. Our favorite eatery, River City Diner, wiped out by the forces of Gaston back in August, 2004 had reopened. The three of us, Chris, our friend Mary and I , were probably their most frequent patrons. Before Gaston, we had eaten there at least twice a day on most days and so the diner's reopening was more than a comfort to us. It was like mom had returned from a long vacation and her family

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This image is "Snow Light" from Duane Keiser's blog. Duane is a local artist that I have posted about before. Duane paints a painting a day and sells postcard size oils for $100 each. Please visit his website Here Ick. I've got the flu. I haven't had it in a long time. Maybe getting a flu shot every year helped after all. I didn't get one this year, obviously. Several people in the

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Ok, sorry about my silly attempt at punning the South Pacific tune. It was cold and I think I have a hole in my kayak, so we didn't go paddling over the weekend. Plus the river was above flood stage this past weekend. We decided that we would take a walk about 4pm downtown on Belle Isle to check out the river flow. We had a nice walk on the loop road which takes you around the entire island.

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There is a local artist who is creating a postcard size painting a day. They sell for $100 each. His name is Duane Keiser and you can find his blog here. I encourage you to visit the blog. I think his work, done in oil, is amazing. Some of his paintings are so realisic. Please see the "Bread and Water" painting on his blog and look at the glass of water. Astounding! I was lucky enough to

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A conversation scralled in the men's room of one of our breakfast spots. No, I wasn't in there, Chris came out laughing this morning and told me about it. 1st Guy: Anarchy=Peace. Protest the Present Paradigm 2nd Guy: "What's Paradigm?" 3rd Guy:"Four nickels." I've laughed all day...

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Life sucks sometimes, it just does. There are tons of articles and discussions about trials and pain being a necessary part of life. Experts purport that through trials, a person is stretched and pushed to make decisions about the direction of her life. I’m not here to jump in to that discussion. Well, except that when I was in college, I read a quote that has stuck with me. How could I

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The Red Hats are coming! The Red Hats are coming! Not since Revolutionary times and Britian's Redcoats has Richmond seen so much red. Chris and I went over to Carytown, one of the most eclectic shopping areas in Richmond, for breakfast Saturday morning. Before turning the corner of South Colonial and Cary Streets, we became interested in some ladies dressed in purple with red hats yelling

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Daze, that's what I'm in. After being off since December 23, it's back to work today. Catching up has been a challenge, especially with a work political coup going on during my absence. I'm irritated and I need a nap, but this situation will have to be the subject of another post (if ever) because I'm not going to let the feelings I have left from wonder holidays be taken away by a new guy that

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Taking vacation, I have curtailed my computer-related activities this week. I haven't been visiting the on line forums I enjoy very much, sending as much email, or blogging. So feeling somewhat lazy and out of touch, and since it is near the end of 2004, I felt I needed to share something. This has been the first "vacation" I have taken in several years and I'm not doing anything very exciting.

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There are days in your life which are purely magical. Sometimes you get lucky and the magic happens on your birthday. I turned forty-two on Sunday, December 19. Forty-two must be a magic number. Who knew? When you think of reaching milestones in your life, forty-two isn’t the first number that pops into your head. Forty-two is twice twenty-one and we all remember looking forward to turning

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