3000 Secrets.

Spent most of this day... 

planning for Thanksgiving.

Picked up a few supplies, for Thanksgiving, yesterday... while Grub Shoppin'.

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Keep forgetting to ask... Son, Justin... if they're celebrating Thanksgiving, on Thanksgiving Day, or another.

Don't know... when the Girl's will be 'Home', for Thanksgiving, this year.

Pal, Allyson... invited me to join her, her Family... and Friends, on Thanksgiving, if Justin changes the day.

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Either way... I'll be doin' some Thanksgiving Cookin'.

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Love... Love... Love...

Thanksgiving.

<3

oh... my.

So Love to Cook!!

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LOVE...

The Thanksgiving 'Aromas'.

<3 <3 <3 

Don't believe Holiday's are ever 'perfect', for most Folks, but...

have sure enjoyed striving for as close as I could get, year...after year.

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Spent... part of this day, cleaning house.

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After the 'Surprise Visitor', felt... I'd better get things in a bit... better order, around home.

oh my.

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While cleaning... ran across the above, 1895 Book.

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John had been reading it, last.

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Found cigarette ashes inside a few of the pages.

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Pretty much, everything, in John's Room, has been untouched, since he went away, in 2014.

It took me several years, to be able to open the pocket doors, to the North side of the house...

John built, 

except...

on

Holidays.

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Took me a few years more, before I could walk inside... John's Room.

I've found great comfort... sleeping in John's Old... La-Z-Boy, while fighting with Fairfax, and The Iowa Department of Transportation, over the last... 'too many', wrongful...

years.

I'm So Incredibly Grateful...

on so many... levels.

While... going through things, in John's Room,

today...

found some legal documents... 

from our First IDOT Condemnation...

in the 1990's.

Grateful.

'Bull Dog' Bill Meardon...

was our 'Perry Mason', back then.

: )

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{Oh Lord!! What a Lawyer!! Bill Meardon, in my eyes, back then...

was

Truly...

'Perry Mason'.

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Here we are, again.

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Charles Meardon, is representing us, and has been, for far too long.

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Yep... Bull Dog... Bill's, Son.

{Oh my. : ) 'Perry Mason', Would Be So PROUD!!}

then...

ran across...

the

 Mountain's

of

Sympathy Cards, from 2014.

<3 <3 <3 

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I, couldn't... and haven't been able to look at them.

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I apologize... to Everyone, I Love So, for not responding.

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This Is Why...

'Cleaning House', is Such a Huge Mistake.

Heartbreaking journey.

Love to Ya...

Prayers for All.

Barb C.