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I'm fine...and other notes

Please accept my apology for being a lazy blogger. It occurred to me that it's been 5 days since I've posted here and figure that I better put up an update before people started worrying or, in the case of my personal friends, yelling at me.

I want to wish all the fathers reading this a happy Father's Day. Show your dad some appreciation today if he's still around. And say a prayer for people like Struke, who lost his dad a few months ago. I will be mowing my father in law's lawn this afternoon. My dad has been gone for almost nine years.

My Sunday Musing today was supposed to be about organization and procrastination. This wasn't planned but I'm putting this off until next week. I lost some motivation the past few days.

There will be a book review coming up. I have been redeeming some time by reading. I received a book last week and although I've already read it, I find myself not able to put it down. I reviewed it before and I found some different things during this read.

Enjoy the first day of summer!

Comments

Ms Hen's said…
Happy DADDY day to you.
Busy Bee Suz said…
Happy Father's day to you Cliff.
I love the irony of your Sunday musing. Looking forward to it next week. Or the week after. :)
struke said…
Cliff, thank you and Happy Father's Day to you.

It still doesn't feel right that my Dad is no longer here. I'm not sure I will ever get used to him being gone.
Syd said…
I miss my dad still. Glad that you are doing such a good deed on Father's Day.
I find that sometimes the blog is just not on my mind and instead of apologizing I'm trying to realize that maybe I just don't have anything worthwhile to say that day and that's ok. Hope you had a nice Father's Day.
Pat Jenkins said…
hey after a 1000 posts you need to take a break....

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