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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell
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Oooh! Thank you for the reminder!

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

My wife and and I were together 18 years before we got married. Long before that we started celebrating our anniversary on the day of our first date. The date consisted of us staying up all night, laying on the hood of my car parked on the boat ramp at Mansfield Hollow, staring up at the Perseid. If you asked either of us what day we got married, we’d have to dig out the marriage certificate but we never forget our anniversary.

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That is beautiful, Paul, truly.

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Lovely

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

More lobster rolls! STAT.

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I had one two nights ago. It was heaven on a buttery bun.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I am actually thinking that Mike Pompeo is a worse man than TFG-- at least, in his probable effects on the world. Speaking from over halfway through his mean-spirited, chauvinistic, bludgeoning, it's-not-an-apology-it's-ASSERTIONS.

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It's a tough race, and someone has to win it. I'm all for handing the crown to Pompeo and letting TFG go the way of the dodo.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I don't think it's waning: I think that a feeling of heat exhaustion is widespread. (Even for Coloradan me, who had a cool damp June.)

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We are having a heat wave today, followed by temps in the 80s with occasional rain -- a perfect summer.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

I salute you, my sister from the land of "It's summer, and you sweat in the summer."

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

It waned here yesterday.

Sorry, somebody had to do it.

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Drop and give us 20. Bad puns are allowed, but subject to fines.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

For me, heading back to Connecticut in a few short hours will be a pleasant "cap." I will get to see my son Tim and my daughter Katie but will miss my wife (and our dog Lucy) who is staying here in SC. Adapting to life's challenges and surviving this hot summer is what it boils down to (pun intended).

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Well, welcome back! And I hope we treat you right while you’re here.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Another summer with no significant beach time? 😭 This is unacceptable!

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Eat dinner on our deck. This summer has been too hot or too rainy (and mosquitoes) to dine outside much. Growing up we had a screened in porch and ate dinner there every night.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

Yes, Praise Jesus! 😅

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For us it means our three beautiful grand critters go back to Florida to learn the benefits of slavery in their history classes. The rest of the summer is "simmer down now" time for us. Come September heading out west to NM to visit our land and shell and eat roasted pinions.

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Oh my God. Roasted pinions. I had -- at great expense once -- a bag of pinion coffee shipped to me. It was also heaven.

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We shake the trees, really bushes, and roast in hatch chili roasters. The coffee I always send as gifts. We will have tons when we return. Maybe you teachin' this fall at the museum? Perhaps?

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If they ask, I will be there, and not just for the coffee but that's an added bonus.

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Jul 28, 2023Liked by Susan Campbell

If they enjoy rousing a bit of rabble, you could encourage them to raise their hands and ask ingenuously, "So what were the benefits of enslaving people to the enslavers? Why did they choose buying and selling humans over hiring free labor?" and "What do you think African-origin Americans might have been learning if they were free, not enslaved? Isn't there evidence from the biographies of free Black Americans?"

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