Spitball Army

Remember the lovely pink-flowered bush we had outside of our cottage door at Mission Beach and the seeds we gathered from it? Well, I just finished planting some of them, and am anxious now to see what they will do. Wouldn’t it be grand to have Calif. flowers in Minn.?

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Are you able to collect many pictures or postcards? I can just hear your asking me, “Bunches, care if I show my ______ pictures?” Just as you always did about the Icelandic ones – you Darling.

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When I think of those months we were together, it seems that every day was a day of romance and adventure too. Marriage is an adventure, and what an exciting, beautiful one.

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Number of times my cat Ziggy screamed for his breakfast: 37 (which is 2,716 in Cat).

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There is absolutely no telling where it came from, but, for the last several weeks, I have had a ravenous craving for blueberry pie. On my few trips to eat out, it hasn’t been on the menu, though I guess I could have called around to ask restaurants in the area if they were serving […]

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After the return of a lost Stradivarius violin, valued at $4 million, a musician gives a concert for cabbies outside Newark Liberty International Airport.

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This hasn’t seemed like Sunday at all, as we’ve spent the whole day working.

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Mrs. K. has been working for the U.S.O., but says she can’t make up her mind as to what she really wants to do. Said she has been nursing a finger “which the monkey tried to bite off.”

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Coincidentally, I happened upon an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” the other night, in which Chef Bourdain and a gathering of Romanian locals devour several roast suckling pigs. It was a step-by-step television seminar on how to dismantle and eat this animal. One key point: the pig’s snout is considered a delicacy.

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He thought we didn’t stay half long enough, but it had taken us so long to get over there, that we had to turn practically right around again to arrive in time to get the roast on. I fixed the dinner last night for the kids – having roast, onions, carrots, date-celery-orange salad, and strawberry pie for dessert.

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