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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.

Two Roads

The Christmas tree is decorated.  The presents under the tree are mounting. We're in a flurry of cookie baking & decorating, wrapping presents and eating candy canes. Meanwhile, Julian Assange has his head in the…

Levity & The Latest Plan

It's already almost Thanksgiving.  How does this happen?  It's raining in Fort Bragg.  Wait, no- it's sunny. The Day of the Dead was a great memorial.  The local public access station here in Fort Bragg…

Día de los Muertos

It was awesome.  Last week we decorated Sugar Skulls at the Caspar Community Center.  This week there were alters in many of the shops around town and a large display at City Hall. The little…

The Volcano in the Kitchen

Today was our day to do nothing.  No school for him.  No work for me.  No important errands to run.  No play-dates to be on time for.  So we were busy. He was up early…

Our Sunday Trip to the Boonville Fair

We left the rainy Coast early, swinging by the Albion store to pick up my parents.  We rocked out to the Putamayo Americana album en route, pointing out the water line on the trees to…

The Paul Bunyan Parade

Paul.  And his Axe.  Not sure what they did with Babe. It would not be the Paul Bunyan Parade without the Kangaroo Kort.  This year, there were children inside saying "Help me, help me"...  WTF?…

August Adventures

I have been at a loss as to how to go from a post about death to justabout anything else.  Suffice to say my dear friend is no longer using her hospital bed.  She went…

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