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Happy Solstice 2020

| June 20, 2020

June 20, 2020 aka Saturday Day 24 of the Reopening Saga Today is the longest day of the year for the Northern Hemisphere and shortest day of the year for the Southern Hemisphere. For those who celebrate this day, I hope you have an amazing day. Caroline is now official a Senior in High School. […]

Day 24 of the Reopening Epic

| June 19, 2020

June 18, 2020 Today is the 155 anniversary of Juneteenth which is the end of chattel slavery in the United States. The emancipation proclamation had freed them two and half years before it was known official in Texas. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and its territories.  I support a federal holiday […]

Thorsday June 18, 2020

| June 18, 2020

Day 23 of the Reopening Epic  I want to organize today. That is my impulse. That’s what I was thinking about when I woke up this morning. I feel like I have been playing catch-up for a while. Almost moving from must do to must do.  One thing I have not being doing is making […]

RTBCKI Happy 135th Birthday to the Statue of Liberty

| June 17, 2020

Day 22 of the Reopening Epic or Wednesday June 17, 2020 On this day in 1885, the French frigate Isere sailed into New York Harbor with the 350 pieces in 214 crates that would be assembled into the statue that we all know today. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was given to […]

Crafty Tuesday Random Thoughts about Creativity

| June 16, 2020

Day 21 of the Reopening Epic or June 16, 2020 This past weekend we had a Zoom visit of my friends Art Salon. Ideas were exchanged. We spent a lot of time talking about what happened on Friday and sorting out what we can do to help our friends. One artist was working on her […]