Tag: Why I Still Love My Husband

  • A Heron Rookery in the Spring

    A Heron Rookery in the Spring

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    Ruth Everhart

    I didn’t mean to become a birdwatcher. It’s one of the results of long-term marriage, I suppose, the eventual bleed-over of hobbies. Life is easier is you like doing the same things. And if you like to watch birds, you’ll like the springtime. Between migration and nest-building, there’s a lot to watch. Last weekend Doug…

  • Love Among the Paper Products

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    Ruth Everhart

    My husband, Doug, is a public school employee. Earlier this week Costco offered a “you can shop here even though you’re not a member” event to public school employees. I like to shop at Costco once or twice a year to stock up on paper goods, so off we went. I couldn’t do the errand…

  • From The Waiting Room Today

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    Ruth Everhart

    I’m thinking about my husband’s face. He’s in surgery right now, outpatient surgery on his foot. Routine, they say. Still, as we went through the pre-op protocol, I found it hard to tear my eyes away from him. I love his face so much. He has expressive brown eyes and his brow is starting to…

  • Our Wedding Anniversary

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    Ruth Everhart

    Doug and I got married on a fun date: 8/4/84. I’ll save you the math: 29 years. Doug’s parents are celebrating their 60th anniversary, and my parents will soon mark their 62nd. So we figure we’re about halfway. If we’re lucky. I feel very grateful for our years together. They definitely qualify as “work in…

  • Double or Single?

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    Ruth Everhart
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    Rent one double kayak or two singles for twice the money? Since we were kayaking to celebrate a wedding anniversary, we figured we could withstand a couple of hours sharing a piece of plastic. We were at the north end of Tilghman Island on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and renting a sit-on-top kayak from this place.…

  • Hair Again

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    Ruth Everhart

    Not the reason, but: Our older child calculated our savings: $16 a haircut, plus tip=$20. Haircut every 6 weeks is 8.6 a year. 29 years times 8.6 haircuts is approximately 251 haircuts, times $20 a haircut is approximately $7288.

  • Birthdays & Bolo Ties

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    Ruth Everhart

    Happy Birthday Sweetheart! I love celebrating my husband’s birthday. Is there anything better than celebrating another year with the love of your life? I am so grateful for him. Our daughter decorated this amazing cake for her Dad. She was inspired by our family’s general Western theme this past year, which began at Christmas with…

  • Who Owns the Wind? thoughts on hospitality

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    Ruth Everhart

    My husband has taken up kiteboarding, which is the sport of using a “power kite” (i.e. a 2-string kite big enough to generate power) to be pulled along on a board (skateboard or surfboard, depending of course if you’re on land or water). I think it’s very cool that he’s doing this. It makes him…

  • How to Pick up Chicks: a Technique from a Married Man

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    Ruth Everhart

    My husband has taken up sketching. ?He likes to go to art museums with his pencils and paper. He has realized that this is also a great way to pick up chicks. ?It is: intriguing, non-threatening, and makes you look smarter than you are. ?In other words, it has all the necessary components for being…