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<p>USA. Cat lover, data scientist, veteran, glass crafter, scrapbooker, family historian and occasional blogger. Northern Arizona native living in the mid-Atlantic region of the east coast of the US. </p><p>Genealogy is primarily USA and Sweden, with some Scotland and Germany.</p><p>Avatar is an AI mashup of my photos, via the Time Machine at MyHeritage.</p><p>Header photo is the San Francisco Peaks in Northern Arizona, the home of my heart.</p>

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Finished one audiobook and started another. 2. Unpacked several boxes of books into the bookshelves. Progress. It feels good to see old friends like LOTR. 3. Laundry is caught up.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Laundry done. 2. Hubby cooked an acorn squash. Not my thing, but he enjoyed it. 3. A mild and cloudy day. The birds were very active at the feeders.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Pizza. 2. Had a productive day in glass crafting with a lot of cutting done and a piece put in for firing. 3. Continued with the workspace renovation work. I located and unpacked four boxes of books and a box of craft supplies. I&#39;m working by zone/topic and think the genealogy zone is about done.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Ice cream. 2. Had $15 in general coupons for the grocery store. I really appreciate saving money on groceries. 3. Hubby&#39;s taxes were e-filed and accepted today. We are so glad that&#39;s behind us.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Potstickers. 2. The last day with 90F temperatures. I think, I hope, it&#39;s the last one for this year. 3. Progress on glass crafting and on workspace renovation.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Did some adulting today. 2. Some glass tooling arrived. I needed some replacement parts and was happy to receive them. 3. I struggled with some data manipulation on iOS. It took a few hours, but I finally figured it out. The work was mainly within TapForms, an app that I am still learning even though I&#39;ve had it a few years.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Another piece of IKEA furniture arrived today. 2. The trash bin has been set on the street and I finally remembered to include a chunk of ancient and stinky blue cheese. 3. Clean towels.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Got my flu shot. 2. Got a TDAP shot because I&#39;m careful about keeping current on my tetanus protection as a cat owner. Or is that cat slave? 3. That&#39;s the third thing. Sharing our home with a cat is a very good thing.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. A fun and inspiring fused glass webinar today. 2. Finished the book Road Trip by Mary Kay Andrews. It was an entertaining read and a good palette cleanser. 3. Pumpkin bread.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Clean sheets and a clean blanket, too. 2. Weekend errands are finished so Sunday will be relaxing. 3. Beyond burgers for supper.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. A glorious autmn day. 2. An ebook (by Mary Kay Andrews) came off hold. I&#39;d been slogging through one that wasn&#39;t holding my interest, so I abandoned it and started the new one. I rarely DNF, but it was the right choice. 3. One of the big art glass retailers (Delphi) just released a palette picker on their website. It was fun to pick palettes from photos and I think it will be a useful tool.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Making progress with organizing. 2. Enjoying an audiobook. 3. My brain was whirling with creative ideas. So I started writing them down onto a list and was able to calm the brain weasels.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Hubby replaced a failed digital door lock. 2. Nice cool weather for organizing in the garage. 3. I found a way to use an unloved IKEA drawer organizer instead of throwing it away. That&#39;s plastic not going to the landfill. Win-win.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Much cooler today with only a few sprinkles. 2. Hubby took advantage of the weather and mowed the lawn. 3. Oatmeal. I don&#39;t buy it often, so it&#39;s a nice change.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. The new HVAC ductwork passed a re-inspection today. 2. Black bean chocolate cookies. 3. Made progress on organizing.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. It is so nice when the grocery store has sales on things I need. 2. I&#39;ve been doing better at getting to bed by eleven PM. It looks like I&#39;ll make it tonight. 3. Hubby has finally conceded that he and I have no clue how to handle the tax issues around his parents estate. The administrator seems to be doing a horrible job. Thankfully Hubby decided to get professional advice.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. A quiet and relaxing day. 2. Rosemary focaccia. 3. My arm pain from the Covid vax has subsided to just being a bit tender. Tonight it should be easier to sleep.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Covid vax done. A good night&#39;s sleep should set me right. 2. Haircut done. I feel much less shaggy. 3. I found a list that had gone walkabout when hubby was looking for stamps. I had looked all over for it. He had accidentally picked it up and put it away with the stamps instead of leaving it on my desk. I&#39;m grateful it turned up.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Checked out the latest Kristen Harmel ebook on a skip the line loan. The title is Meet Me in Paris. 2. Finished reading Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy. It&#39;s a very powerful novel focused on climate change. I think it will resonate with me for a long time. 3. Did more tidying in my glass workspace. I realized that there was some cabinet space that is not being used efficiently and found a shelf for a partial solution. More shopping will follow.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Another pleasant weather day before the heat returns. 2. Leftovers for lunch for the third day this week. It&#39;s so nice to have something easy when it&#39;s just me. 3. Tidied up my glass workspace in the garage. I have to stay on top of it so hubby doesn&#39;t hurt himself or break any glass. I had let it get messy and that&#39;s not a good thing. I feel relieved now.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. A helpful video call with my doctor. 2. A pleasant day when I could comfortably work in the garage. 3. A strange one. The trash bin went to the curb tonight and it included a full litter box cleanout. We don&#39;t totally empty it often and it&#39;s a breath of fresh air when we do.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Laundry all done and sitting in his and hers baskets. 2. A nice long nap. 3. Pretty glass. I needed more circuit board dichroic glass to make a bunch of knobs. I decided on using a rainbow of colors cut from this large sheet. A couple of smaller pieces grabbed my attention on the website. It has arrived and I&#39;m thrilled with it.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. My daughter finished a 10K run today. 2. I took a break from everything except normal household chores. It was relaxing. 3. Clean sheets to start the week.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. It was a much more relaxed day without the pressure of the glass project. 2. My workspace is getting better. We moved unpacked some boxes and assembled more KALLAX inserts. 3. Library books in Libby. For some reason I received offers in Libby to skip the line for three different books today. I also had one book come off of hold, which was the only one I checked out. It was an abundance of riches.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Pizza. 2. I panicked because I thought a little one&#39;s birthday was coming up next week. I scrambled to make a card, then looked at the calendar and realized it&#39;s two weeks away. Whew! But the card is nearly ready, so I&#39;m ahead. 3. And the glass class has the opposite situation. I thought that there was more time for image uploads. Nope, they wanted them uploaded today. So I uploaded what I have and that takes the pressure off. Now I can finish the...

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings It&#39;s been a frustrating day, but there&#39;s always something to be grateful for. 1. Potstickers. 2. More IKEA goodies arrived and I finished assembling one KALLAX insert. 3. Hubby fixed my lap grinder.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Nice long phone call with my brother. 2. Chocolate cake. 3. Made progress on the big project for glass class.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. An intense thunderstorm gave us 3 inches of rain this afternoon. 2. We took all the empty IKEA boxes to the recycle center, except a couple I needed for temporary floor protection. 3. I think the Billy door knobs are boring. So I put some glass in the kiln, hoping to get some interesting cabochons to attach to knobs that I ordered. Results tomorrow (if they&#39;re good). 😀

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. Did some tidying in my workspace/craft space. 2. Tried a new recipe for leftover chicken. There are so many recipes available online. This was a good one that included buffalo sauce for a kick. 3. Picked up my fused glass from the studio and talked over next steps with the owner.

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    #3GoodThings #ThreeGoodThings 1. The storage pod that has been in the yard for three months is finally gone. It looks so much better and no doubt the neighbors agree. 2. The stringer sheets (about 2 square feet or 1935 square cm total) for the glass project were safely transported to the studio for firing overnight. I was really stressed about transporting that setup and am relieved to have made it safely. 3. I had a nap after the dentist appointment. It was so refreshing.