This Guy is my Hero! Thankful for Gary! On November 1st I had a very simple eye surgery for cataracts. All went perfectly and my eye site is incredible. I can see perfectly and I can't believe the colors are so bright again! My site is 20/20 in my left eye. 2 days after the surgery I had a ve
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11/17/2023
Thanks to Leanne Smith and Endre Barath, Jr. for hosting this month's challenge!October Challenge - Trick or Treat Time to Share ActiveRain is an awesome community of so many like-minded professionals! I've been blessed to be a member since December of 2006 and an active blogger since 2009. Lo
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10/25/2023
As a high school boarding school kid, one of my teachers taught us 'Be About Excellence' was her main goal for each one of her students. At the time I didn't understood what that really meant - but over a year's time I knew exactly what she meant. To this day I am thankful to her for teaching m
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10/20/2023
This week keeps on giving, giving and giving! Guess we won the lottery! First we got our water bill and it was sky high. Oh great, another big water leak! The plumbers came out first thing Thursday morning and they located the leak at the main water line and shut the water off immediately. Th
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09/17/2023
I hope you're all having a relaxing weekend! We certainly are this year - and loving it! The other night we went to our friends home for smoked ribs, corn on the cob and coleslaw. It was delicious! They had just returned home from 2 weeks in Greece so it was fun seeing their screen show of ph
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09/04/2023
Stop Look and Listen! Bet you had to stop a moment and wonder what these crazy people were all about! I had to laugh when I saw it this afternoon! I was going through photos thinking about what I wanted to write about for the August Challenge. And les voila - this photo popped up! Years ago I
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08/02/2023
Thank goodness for Kat Palmiotti hosting the AI Challenge this month! Finally I can talk about the AI hell I've been living in/with for the past few years. You see, my husband Gary ( the crazy French dude pictured above) retired a few years ago from the Aerospace Industry and wanted/needed to fi
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06/11/2023
As a kid, sitting on your bicycle you determinedly gazed ahead at the other side of the park. This park wasn’t just a park. Oh No! It was a jungle worth exploring, an epic obstacle course with mountains and rivers you were to cross. You had a goal, and you were determined to reach it, no matter
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05/07/2023
We are very happy to announce that the ActiveRain IT & ARMS guys have fixed our issue with featured posts in the BananaTude Group going POOF - GONE! And if you haven't read already, they have also fixed the AR Main Feature Board! Everything is back up and running great! Yea!! Thank you so muc
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05/02/2023
We just figured out today that there is a glitch in the system regarding group features. We're not sure when it started, but I first noticed something weird last week. I had featured John Meussner post in BananaTude. When I looked in the group later that day, it was gone - POOF - disappeared f
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04/27/2023
