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Posts published by “Jessica Ehlers”

40ish-year-old mom to a 13-year-old and rescued basset hounds. I am not married but the guy I live with and I are super serious. Except when we're making fart jokes and then the 13-year-old rolls her eyes and shakes her head. I am from NorCal. I live in the house I grew up in. I bake when I am nervous and I like to grow things in my front yard to nibble on and season dinner with.

The House You Live In

Since I moved back into my childhood home, I have had this song peripherally but consistently floating around my head.  And it's okay with me, because I like Gordon Lightfoot.  Seems odd to think anyone…

Bookends

Change, changing places

I just got home from a week in Tampa, FL.  I had never been to Florida before.  What I can tell you is this: Gasparilla is no joke.  They take their pirating very seriously in…

“Did they kill him, too?”

Today is the day we observe the life of Martin Luther King Jr.  My boy woke up feeling under the weather, so we cuddled up in front of the computer to watch some youtube videos…

Winter Sunset at Glass Beach

Who needs loot from Santa with treasures like these? We live close enough to get to Glass Beach by bike.  Having spent the remainder of the post-preschool afternoon playing with Santa's offerings, a bike ride…

Our Lady of Perpetual Fun

Take Hwy 1 north to Maple Street.  Take a right and follow it to where the road becomes a T.  See that huge building you're facing that looks like nothing you've ever seen in Fort…

Christmas in Albion

It was raining when we left Fort Bragg to head over to the Grandparent's house in Albion.  The relatives.  The food.  The hot hot upstairs, windows wide open to the rain. Santa left something in…

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