tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6927932778040032032024-03-13T21:40:55.071-07:00Lori Lynn's CottageLori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.comBlogger437125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-9364232949258672872012-12-21T10:06:00.000-08:002012-12-21T10:06:01.929-08:00HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!No, blog friends, I have not fallen off the face of the earth. Just needed a break. I want to wish you all a wonderful Christmas!!!<br />
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</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">For sale on Etsy..<a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/84149799/you-cant-buy-happiness-but-you-cam-buy"><b style="color: #cc0000;">HERE</b></a>.</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">And speaking of thrifted sheets, here's valance I made from a sheet for our dining room window....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WZs7BPAkPfA4QiRWzp8Qh2IPPyOis9LHqHHqaxpxyc0?feat=embedwebsite"><img align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1pR1k_1EH7w/TI08E5y0hqI/AAAAAAAAD3A/_Z7TQC3AXeY/s144/newsig2.jpg" /></a>Lori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-88239478596085585792012-01-13T09:09:00.000-08:002012-01-13T09:09:09.408-08:00{ Not to be outdone }Yesterday morning I took a photo of my craft room. It is my New Year project, because right now it looks like a hurricane aftermath. It's a small room, and things just get 'shoved' in there and not properly put away. I planned to post said photo for all the world to see to motivate me to 'git 'er done'. Then I got called in to work an extra shift. When I got home at 10'ish last night I decided to blog hop for awhile before turning in. Visited my good friend Deb at <a href="http://garagesalegal.blogspot.com/">Garage Sale Gal</a> and what did I find?? SHE is working on her craft room and hers looks about the same as mine!! LOL!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j1ferCyMWSE/TxBg0cha0UI/AAAAAAAAGiU/7Rztn3wjzEQ/s1600/craftroom+006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-j1ferCyMWSE/TxBg0cha0UI/AAAAAAAAGiU/7Rztn3wjzEQ/s320/craftroom+006.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Heinous, isn't it? I'm embarrassed. It's got to be totally rearranged 'cuz I'm out of room. Taking out the table because I really don't 'do' anything in there. I drag my projects out to the kitchen or dining room table, so it's basically going to be just for storage. Doesn't help that it's also our home office. I need to put all of my fabric back in totes and off shelves 'cuz I'm tired of kitties using it for napping places.<br />
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Anyway, that's my closet skeleton. Hop on over to <a href="http://garagesalegal.blogspot.com/">Deb's blog</a> 'cuz she's giving away some of her 'stuff' that she's culling from her craft room. I just might do that as well, but don't hold your breath! It's going to be awhile!!!<br />
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</div> Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Ours was very nice. Had a special Christmas Eve dinner at my nephews home. Turkey, Prime Rib...the works! They have a very lovely home and it was nice to have the family together.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Christmas day was spent in my jammies! Hubby slept til noon, as he works a graveyard shift 7 days a week. The puppers knew it was Christmas and Bailey couldn't wait so he stole a present and took it under the bed to unwrap and gut the stuffing out. Silly little boy!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">This may be Violet's last Christmas with us so I got LOT"S of photos of her with her pressies!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #274e13;">and be Safe!! </span></span></b></i></div><br />
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</a></div>Lori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-60631988836992958342011-12-21T11:47:00.000-08:002011-12-21T11:48:22.283-08:00{ A Shelter Dog's Christmas }<h1 align="center" style="color: #660000; text-align: center;"></h1><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">'Tis the night before Christmas and all through the town,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Every shelter is full. We are lost but not found.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Our numbers are hung on our kennels so bare.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We hope every minute that someone will care.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">They'll come to adopt us and give us the call,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">"Come here, Max and Sparkie. Come fetch your new ball!!"</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">But now we sit here and think of the days</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We were treated so fondly. We had cute, baby ways.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Once we were little, then we grew and we grew -</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Now we're no longer young and we're no longer new.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">So out the back door we were thrown like the trash.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">They reacted so quickly. Why were they so rash?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We "jump on the children," "don't come when they call,"</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We "bark when they leave us," "climb over the wall."</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We should have been neutered. We should have been spayed.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Now we suffer the consequence of the errors THEY made.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">If only they'd trained us. If only we knew...</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We'd have done what they asked us and worshiped them, too.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We were left in the backyard, or worse - left to roam.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Now we're tired and lonely and out of a home.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">They dropped us off here and they kissed us good-bye...</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">"Maybe someone else will give you a try."</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">So now here we are, all confused and alone</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">In a shelter with others who long for a home.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">The kind workers come through with a meal and a pat.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">With so many to care for, they can't stay to chat.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">They move to the next kennel, giving each of us cheer.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We know they wonder how long we'll be here.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We lay down to sleep and sweet dreams fill our heads</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Of a home filled with love and our own cozy beds.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Then we wake to see sad eyes, brimming with tears -</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Our friends filled with emptiness, worry, and fear.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">If you can't adopt us and there's no room at the inn,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Could you help with the bills and fill our food bin?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">We count on your kindness each day of the year.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Can you give more than hope to everyone here?</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">Please make a donation to pay for the heat</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">And help get us something special to eat.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">The shelter that cares for us wants us to live</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">And more of us will, if more people will give.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SHELTER! </span></b></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";">~ author unknown ~ </span></div><span style="font-family: "Baskerville Old Face";"></span></div><br />
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WZs7BPAkPfA4QiRWzp8Qh2IPPyOis9LHqHHqaxpxyc0?feat=embedwebsite"><img align="left" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1pR1k_1EH7w/TI08E5y0hqI/AAAAAAAAD3A/_Z7TQC3AXeY/s144/newsig2.jpg" /></a>Lori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-83742544932616206832011-12-19T13:35:00.000-08:002011-12-19T13:36:47.344-08:00{ I am PO'd }I am so mad. Made a double batch of sugar cookie dough. Same recipe I've used for years. It's dry and crumbly and a fight to get rolled out. Didn't really notice the bad texture till it was out of the mixer. I have four 'slabs' in plastic wrap waiting in the fridge to be rolled and baked. Any suggestions as to what I can do to help it out?<br />
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Been doing a little decorating. Still need to by a few craft items to finish a couple of projects. Will share pics when it's complete! AND we're hitting all the thrift stores on Friday, so I'll be sure to share my goodie finds...if any. Pickin's have been slim lately.<br />
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More anon...<br />
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PS: Still have some Hollyhock seeds...a little bit of springtime! Email me if you want some!<br />
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</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Email me with your name and addy and I'll stick some in the mail for you!!! </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Please put 'hollyhocks' in the subject line!!!!</b></div><br />
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AND, to everyone who worried about me and sent help, we made it through. A million thank yous.<br />
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~big sigh of relief and gratitude~<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Took a little walk outside to get some fresh air, and LO! and Behold! Found some greenies!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6ksuKNb96dg/TXp5SZvV_cI/AAAAAAAAGYs/wkQekPmfRQY/s1600/0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6ksuKNb96dg/TXp5SZvV_cI/AAAAAAAAGYs/wkQekPmfRQY/s320/0002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wwH4IrwDUqc/TXp5XmrrGaI/AAAAAAAAGYw/cSbh3lQ5RQo/s1600/0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-wwH4IrwDUqc/TXp5XmrrGaI/AAAAAAAAGYw/cSbh3lQ5RQo/s320/0005.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sweet bulbs peeking out!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">All of my roses are budding out!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>This little girl brought her pet chicken in to shop with her at the Rite-Aid where I work. It was so cute that I thought I would share. Bock Bock Bock!!!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acknCHYGqOc/TWa1peBaexI/AAAAAAAAGWc/Vgzg1iEebnU/s1600/cottage1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-acknCHYGqOc/TWa1peBaexI/AAAAAAAAGWc/Vgzg1iEebnU/s1600/cottage1.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">From Amazon.com : Mary Stewart launched a world full of romance readers, and she invented romantic suspense. In this beautifully written gothic, Kate Herrick, a young widow in war-torn London, returns to her family home of Rose Cottage to retrieve family mementos for her Gran. When Kate arrives, she finds that the mementos have mysteriously disappeared. While looking for answers to age-old family mysteries (her single mother supposedly ran off with gypsies) Kate rekindles friendships with neighbors, kinsman, and old childhood companions. The bittersweet memories that Kate examines help her to redefine herself as a widow and as a young woman with a great need for family ties.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I enjoyed Rose Cottage very much, so I decided I'd give another of her books a go. I have decided on Thornyhold.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sounds </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">like the perfect book for a dreary, snowy day :-)</span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">What are you reading these days???</span></span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br />
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</div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WZs7BPAkPfA4QiRWzp8Qh2IPPyOis9LHqHHqaxpxyc0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1pR1k_1EH7w/TI08E5y0hqI/AAAAAAAAD3A/_Z7TQC3AXeY/s144/newsig2.jpg" /></a>Lori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-65407598130018969322011-02-22T11:44:00.000-08:002011-03-03T13:19:07.216-08:00[ I just could NOT wait! }I absolutely had to change my banner. Maybe now Old Man Winter will take the hint and GO AWAY!!! His time is over!! LOL!<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pxleyes.com/"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ERSUvgVY4f8/TWQjevNLAfI/AAAAAAAAGVo/bxKYAOGcAiI/s320/old%252520man%252520winter_4c58badc8f96f.jpg" width="287" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Yer outta here Mister!!</div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WZs7BPAkPfA4QiRWzp8Qh2IPPyOis9LHqHHqaxpxyc0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1pR1k_1EH7w/TI08E5y0hqI/AAAAAAAAD3A/_Z7TQC3AXeY/s144/newsig2.jpg" /></a>Lori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-32905792185887242592011-02-17T10:37:00.000-08:002011-02-17T12:34:25.478-08:00{ I'd almost given up... }<div style="text-align: justify;">... on Goodwill. My last three trips garnered NOTHING. Maybe I'm just getting more selective..I don't know. BUT, I decided to give it one more try yesterday. I have been looking for two specific things, and I found them both!! Yay! We've been in this house for a year now, and I haven't been able to find a valance that I liked for my big dining room window. Eureka! Check out this sheet I found at GW!! It will make the PERFECT valance, and there will be enough left to make a nightie or a sun dress!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wFFfIpxLUy0/TV1n1lDoJTI/AAAAAAAAGUY/kkyk9Z8gI4s/s1600/0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wFFfIpxLUy0/TV1n1lDoJTI/AAAAAAAAGUY/kkyk9Z8gI4s/s320/0002.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Isn't it scrumptious???? I've also been looking for a round lace tablecloth...here it is! Not EXACTLY what I wanted, but it'll do for now.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">AND, I'm always on the lookout for orphaned creamers or sugar bowls. This one was 99 cents. Another piece for my collection. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Linking to <b style="color: #741b47;">Thrifty Thursday </b>at <a href="http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2011/02/thrifty-thursday-102-plus-tablescape.html">Tales from Bloggeritaville!</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WZs7BPAkPfA4QiRWzp8Qh2IPPyOis9LHqHHqaxpxyc0?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_1pR1k_1EH7w/TI08E5y0hqI/AAAAAAAAD3A/_Z7TQC3AXeY/s144/newsig2.jpg" /></a>Lori Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00504606487425029740noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-692793277804003203.post-88199128344603201702011-02-15T08:03:00.000-08:002011-02-15T08:04:25.384-08:00[ OH WOE IS ME! }<div style="text-align: justify;">Just when I thought our nice 50-60 degree sunny days heralded a possible SPRING, I woke to this.....</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is the view out our front door. Dumped 7 inches since midnight and it's STILL coming down!!! Guess I will curl up with my coffee and make more of these....</div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thank heavens I don't have to work today!!!!</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #cc0000; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Hope you get lot's of sweet kisses today!!!</b></span></div><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/WZs7BPAkPfA4QiRWzp8Qh2IPPyOis9LHqHHqaxpxyc0?feat=embedwebsite" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Spring can't come too soon for me! How about you?<br />
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