Category: Completely Different?

Doubtful, home

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This is such a remarkable milestone, here’s a second “completed” photo.

Doubtful there will ever be a desire to lower our standards.

What standards?

The ones we have for the community we live in.

Between the Orange County Code Enforcement guidelines and our Property Owners Association’s specific, uncomplicated, and modest requirements, the standards (when enforced) are all anyone needs to live peacefully. Respectfully.

Doubtful any community will ever see 100% respect and compliance.

Note: We have long been planning for a creative middle-ground. Life is good, even when it’s not excellent. Thank you Universe.

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One more time, please

four senior citizens at cafe table
One more view, for old time’s sake.
four senior citizens at cafe table
Dennis, far right, laughs at everything.
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We’ve been together a decade. We met at Lee Cockerell’s home two weeks before i officially retired on Halloween 2014. Mark and i began collaborating in early 2015.

There’s a last time for everything.

Sometimes we welcome the last time.

Sometimes we mourn the last time.

And sometimes, we forget to savor each time, never thinking that this might be the last time.

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Time, home

three men at a Mountain Lake
A picture is worth a thousand words. A dozen annual pictures of the same people at the same place, year after year…time well spent.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A dozen annual pictures (at Lake McDonald’s south shore, looking North at the Continental Divide) of the same people at the same place, year after year…time well spent.

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i love creative solutions

Germany. We walked three miles at Epcot. Later in the day walked five miles from Magic Kingdom to our home.

i love visiting Disney with Family and friends.

We drove two cars to Epcot. Knowing eventually, cousin Michael would want to stay and we would want to return home, and both could happen seamlessly.

At the last minute, midday, we decided to go via monorail to Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

Spontaneously, i decided to walk home from the Magic Kingdom. But not before going to the Train Station and grabbing an “us-ee”.

7-second video: What are the odds?
16-second video: Soaked. But warm. Thank you merino wool.
12-second video: Sundays, for the past seven years, are reserved for a family call.
34-second video: A Sunday video message to a friend/client.

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Hello February 2026, home

Make focus and discipline your top, daily deliverables.

Focus on life’s basics.

Discipline yourself to never take your eye off the ball.

Karma is profoundly simple and simply profound.

We reap what we sow.

Note: Life has five basics. We think. We move. We feel. We contribute. We dwell.

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