March 2023 archive

Day 21,746

Evelyn Day 15 Hi! It’s Grampa Bob. Hope you are well. It is 31 March 2023. Good morning, Evie. Grampa looks forward to the next chance he gets to hold you. It is the last day of March, and wow, this month seemed to come and go fast. I have the last day of my …

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Day 21,745

Evelyn Day 14 Good morning, and I wish you a happy Thursday. I’m sitting here, looking at the calendar, and March is almost over… tomorrow is 31 March 2023. Saturday will be April Fool’s Day, and there will be one thing for us to watch from a sports perspective. In college basketball, the top teams …

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Day 21,744

Evelyn Day 13 It is Wednesday, 29 March 2023. Good morning! I hope you are having a good morning. We’re about a week into spring, and there are signs of seasonal change. I look out into the front yard, and I can see the wild onions sprouting. This weekend I’m going to have to check …

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Day 21,743

Evelyn Day 12 It is Tuesday morning, 28 March 2023. I would love to be able to tell you that the news overnight was all rainbows and glitter, but that would not be the case. Some bad things happened in the world yesterday. Where do I start? Evelyn, honey, we’re all going to have choices …

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Day 21,742

Evelyn Day 11 Good morning! It is Monday, 27 March 2023. Good morning to you, Evie. This weekend was kind of special, and you might need to look at some pictures to understand why. My mother was born in August 1942. She is 80 years old. Yesterday she met her first great-grandchild. Your mom and …

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Day 21,739

Evelyn Day 8 Y’know, if I’m going to start tracking my granddaughter’s days, I should try a different method: math and all that. I use a website to calculate my days quickly – Rod Martin’s site has a “my days” calculator that’s quick and easy to use. OK, back to the regular opening… Good morning! …

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Day 21,738

Evelyn Day 7 Good morning! I hope you are well on this Thursday, the 23rd day of March 2023. Today marks one week since Evelyn arrived, and today is looking like a pretty good day. I wrapped up a three-day course yesterday. I know that I sat the course when it first came out, but …

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Day 21,737

Good morning! It is 22 March 2023, and it might be time for me to change my post greeting. Good morning, Evelyn. Today is your Day 6. I’m your grampa. You are the single brightest light in our lives today, and that is an undeniable fact. I would love to tell you that you have …

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Day 21,736

It is Tuesday morning, 21 March 2023, and spring hasn’t entirely sprung yet, but the wild onions in the yard are peaking up a little higher than anything else that’s green. Pretty soon here it will be time to get the mower, tractor, and gator ready to roll around the property and get some lawn …

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Day 21,735

Good morning! It is 20 March 2023, and the US is still not on the metric system. Yeah, I’m in a goofy mood this morning. Day four of being a grandparent is off to the kind of start you’d expect. I stepped on the scale and didn’t receive bad news, grabbed a couple glasses of …

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