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Another day of rain... My garden will love this. We bought a couch and love seat today... drove it home in the rain. Now I have to get some reviews done, with black tea and coconut M&M's. Keeping the dream alive, bidding on a 1935 cross stitch pattern and myriad dress patterns.

I realized today that I am not comfortable with excessive ruffles
And bows. It was a groundbreaking realization as far as my dressmaking.

I hope the chickens are okay... I see no sign of them.
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