Tim A. Cummins @ 7:42 pm
Ashley and Miles brought the grandgirls over Saturday afternoon. They just picked them up about 4:30 pm Monday. The blog reflects the long weekend!
Interesting.
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Studied Spanish all three days.
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I used the dialog box option for the first time this weekend. It was really helpful for clearing up some uncertainties about some answers.
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Sunday, I achieved a milestone by being promoted to the Diamond league of Duolingo. That’s the highest level of achievement one can make on a platform of over 500 million people. It really just means you’re extremely consistent and get a lot of answers correct. Still, pretty cool.
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I do a lot of different things to study Spanish.
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I got a lot of XP by doing these timed tests.
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I sit out on my porch when I’m studying. I repeat the sentence three times each, so I prefer to be by myself so I can really concentrate on getting the pronunciation correct.
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I listened to some of this in Spanish. Then went to Carnegie.
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I had a great night’s sleep on Friday. Saturday’s was one of the worst in a while. Fortunately, Kathy let me go back to bed for a couple of hours. That really helped.
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Pretty mild weather.
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Brain training.
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OYB!
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Saturday morning I got my taxes done! I tried to take them twice on Monday, but the line was out the door. I’ll drop Ashley’s package off as well. I have to stand in line at the Post Office to get a certified delivery.
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Picked up the groceries on Sunday.
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I enjoyed the girls so much.
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They went to sleep around 9:00 pm each night.
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Cuties!
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We talked about this song.
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Had to look this one up.
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The word itself was recondite. How meta.
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OYB!
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Paid bills.
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Sunday felt hot!
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Ice cream!
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We had fun at the goose park.
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Very unusual zipper cloud. Looks like zipper on both sides!
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I finally got a new hose nozzle so I could clean out all the birdbaths.
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I tired ’em out.
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I liked this article.
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OYB!
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I folded clothes and cleaned my sheets.
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We cleaned the glass doors.
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Blew the driveway.
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Brushed and put pigtails in the girls hair.
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Also trimmed Everly’s bangs.
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Penelope, Everly and I put the labels on the letters. We’ll get those printed Wednesday morning, I hope.
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Vacuumed the whole house.
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I used my small vacuum to do my area downstairs.
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Put the fresh bedding on.
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I’ve had my car at T and G since Thursday. They were closed from Thursday until today. They finally figured out what was wrong and it’ll be fixed completely tomorrow.
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Got cooler and started sprinkling Monday.
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Dropped off the financial report at our treasurer’s house. I’m so thankful that Ashley has continued helping with that. Amen.
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Deposited checks.
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Long blog!