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Happy Thanksgiving!

Here are a few things I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving:

I'm also thankful for you and how supportive you are of me and of my little home on the web, Just Pure Lovely.

May God bless you! I really mean that.

En Pointe

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Our Ballerina, the Cow II

Here are some photos of our ballerina as her costume was being fitted.  In the Jack & the Beanstalk production, our ballerina was the front of the cow (and later, a cloud).  Another gal had the (not so lovely) task of being the back of the cow.

The girl

The half-girl, half-cow

The cow (without its backside!)

Psst, go to "Our Ballerina" to see some new shots I added to that post.  They're much prettier than these cow photos!

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This is Not a Ballet Blog, but...

This is not becoming a ballet blog, I promise. But dance is definitely what's on my mind these days, and it will be until our ballerina's final curtsy Tuesday afternoon. So, for the next few days, I've post-dated some recent ballet photos of our gal.

After the final curtsy on Tuesday afternoon I'll probably be good for nothing more than sleep.

Then, on Wednesday I'll remember that Thanksgiving is only a day away.  And then I'll panic.

But, today, I'm not remembering that.  I'm thinking only of Performances #2-5 and all the chauffeuring I have yet to do.

yawn,

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Our Ballerina

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Our Ballerina, the Cow

This week, it's all about the dance.  Our ballerina is performing in Jack & the Beanstalk this upcoming Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.  She is - brace yourself - a cow in the performance.  Her cow portrait is on posters all throughout our little town...

Those are her legs at the front of the cow.  You know, the pretty legs at the front of the pret...never mind, I can't lie.  That cow is so not pretty! 

This is all making for great teasing material from her big brother, as you can imagine.  He likes to say things like, "My sister is such a cow!"  He hasn't seen the costume yet.  Oh, dear. 

Soon I'll post some photos I took of our ballerina while she was looking quite a bit prettier in class.   I don't want you to remember her as such a cow.

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Today, I Am...

• Chauffeuring...the ballerina to practice after practice, and
• Chauffeuring...the teenager to teen thing after teen thing, then
• Wondering...why I'm losing touch with "me"
• Realizing...that with all this chauffeuring, I'm not taking time to fill "me" up, so I'm
• Planning...some "me" time this week for...
• Crocheting...a secret for someone for Christmas
• Reading..."Writing for the Soul" by Jerry B. Jenkins
• Photographing...cotton fields
• Writing...something or other
• Thanking...the two little ones for not asking me to chauffeur them as well

 
What are you up to today?

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Happy Veterans Day!

 

Thank you, everyone who has taken the time to serve our country.  I'm a sappy mess when I stop and think of the sacrifice you've made - away from family, away from home, away from comfort - for me and mine.  We honor you today.

God bless you,

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"Now Is Not a Good Time, Ida."

We could do without all of her drama. 

It looks like I'll be spending my Monday glued to the tv forecasts, checking online radars, baking, pulling the kayaks and canoe to higher ground and watching the river levels. 

And then...Ida probably won't even bother coming after all that.

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Dance

This is a hint of where I have been lately, and where I will be until the last curtsy on November 24th.

The ballerina's chauffeur,   

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