Woodstone Prairie

 
Colorado Weather
Part 1
 
This past winter was a rough one out here on the Colorado prairie. It started snowing in October….

… and it just kept snowing.

By January the snow was so deep that the deer struggled to make their way through it and took to the roads as they moved in search of food, and people threw […]

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I can’t believe it’s Friday already, this week has absolutely flown by!
Girl Scout camp has been ok… Not the huge success it’s been in previous years, but R has had fun. Her leader never did “get it” about R’s FASD, so R has been on her own for the most part. She’s lost a few water bottles, […]

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Rather than spend the evening sitting around ruminating on what’s bugging me, I’ve decided to blog instead in the hopes it will get my mind on something else.
Did you know (by the way) that the word ruminate comes from the Latin word “ruminare” which means chew the cud? I knew that goats (and cows and other […]

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Grumble, grumble… after spending an hour typing a post, I clicked on save and my computer somehow lost the server (and my post). So here we go again…
It feels like we’ve been running around all week, but in looking back we really didn’t get that much accomplished…
On Sunday we celebrated Father’s Day and dh’s  birthday with a […]

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When my niece was here visiting a couple of weeks ago, she asked for my green chili recipe. I forgot all about sending it to her (sorry T!), until a few days ago when I was making a pot of it for dh’s birthday.
 Here it is… let me know how it turns out!
Green Chili
 1-2 lbs pork (diced)
1-2 […]

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I found this article (I’ve linked to the article I posted below) in the Victoria Times Colonist and thought it was really very good.
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Caring Minds
Learning to cope with the mental illness of a loved one
Jim Gibson, Times Colonist
 
Published: Monday, April 30, 2007
Living with someone who is mentally ill is a bit like that cliche scene in teen […]

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I’ve decided that for me the key to blogging is caffeine. I woke up this morning at the regular time (after being up with R again last night… but more about that later), and sat down at the computer to finish a blog entry I’d started last night. As I sat there, staring blankly at the computer […]

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This may be a rhetorical question, but I’m asking it anyway…
Here’s the background….  When M was a little boy, most people didn’t understand right away that he had a disability. This was before the schizophrenia and he seemed (most of the time… LOL) to be a bright, pretty typical little boy. I got used to the disapproving […]

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I think I’ve finally caught my breath after M’s bad spell this past spring. I feel like I’m starting to get my energy back and have time time and energy for things like blogging. After the very difficult few months we’ve had, it feels so good to feel GOOD again. 
Right now M is as stable […]

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I made some changes to my sidebar…
 I was tired of the old pictures and added some new ones. What do you think?

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