October 7, 2005
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Fall officially arrived this evening with the first fire of the season in the wood-burning stove.
Pete (Statdad) looks so happy because I am in the kitchen making waffles with ham for supper – his favorite comfort food.
Here’s the blaze when it got going good:

Can you feel the heat? Makes you relax so that it’s hard to move anywhere else in the house.Joel arrived with some of his Xanga co-workers yesterday on their way
to U of I. I introduced myself to them and said, “Hi, I’m
Becky.” They grinned and just said, “Statmom.” I don’t know
why I was so taken aback by that but I was. Like that’s not the
real me – my flesh and blood person is the real me. I’m not quite
comfortable with this cyber-reality.
