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Cleaned the rain gutters to prepare for what they are saying will be a "wet winter". Hung the Christmas lights while I had the ladder out.
Picked up our tree, a Nordmann Spruce, put it in the stand and strung the lights (my job). Now laying on the couch as I watch my Wife decorate the tree, my Choc Lab Nalu laying beside me with his head resting on my thigh while I watch "The Art Of Racing In The Rain".
The occasional tear running down my cheek (I know it's just actors reciting words, I do this at work all day).
But I can't help realizing that between the loss of our Granddaughter, a strike that affected my employment for more than 6 months and the holidays screaming up on us at breakneck speed, I'm still one of the luckiest guys on the face of this earth. In spite of it all. I'm a very rich man.
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"There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule" - Mark Twain
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