Marie Coyle

@MarieCoyle (38573)

Joined myLot 4 years ago

Quirky. Love my family and friends. Book lover and coffee drinker, history buff, I enjoy nature, gardening, animals, and I love to cook.

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Hopefully the last of the neighborhood drama.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 17 Dec

I live in such a quiet, sleepy little bedroom community. It's always felt safe in my neighborhood. Last week I wrote of my 3AM surprise finding a man setting off my door chime/camera...he looked a bit lost and confused, but I did...

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We had a day of guns and people acting crazy here.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 16 Dec

For the record, I live in a fairly quiet bedroom community, not far from the main city. Like most such smaller cities and towns, ours has the good areas, and a few not so good areas. It's been fairly quiet for some time now, until...

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Never give up, keep moving forward.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 15 Dec

One of the surgeries my son had from the wreck was to get his arm repaired. His shoulder and arm that were against the driver's door when the semi truck hit him, had to have several surgeries to repair.. It won't ever be as strong...

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A very large package arrived at my house.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 12 Dec

And no, it wasn't Santa Claus. It was a HUGE box, and weighs more than I do. It was so heavy a guy brought it to the door out of his truck with a rolling cart. Then two guys carried it in to the hallway, and left. Addressed to me,...

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So, so many cookies, a true marathon!

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 9 Dec

To be exact, 419 cookies. And son in law is making one more batch of something his Dad likes tomorrow, then the baking is done. They do this every year, and sent them to both sides of their family. It's a big project every...

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Do you remember having Christmas carolers?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 8 Dec

I always thought it was so nice, carolers going around in little groups and singing a song or two of Christmas, often ending with ''Silent Night'' although not always. In some smaller towns, it seemed the carolers often...

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Do different foods remind you of different people?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 5 Dec

I realized today that they actually do remind me, or bring back memories of what I fixed for loved ones and friends, because I knew that's what they liked. One of my grandfathers absolutely loved chicken and dumplings. It was...

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There’s a wild wind out there.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 4 Dec

And is it ever howling! It started ithe big gusts about 3PM, but no rain or snow. But it got windier. About8PM it got crazy out there. Winds in huge gusts, a tree fell on a house a few blocks away, limbs everywhere. When I’ve...

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What is your greatest strength?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 1 Dec

I was having a discussion with my daughter about strengths and weaknesses. We all have both, whether we admit it or not. Many of us are really good at just basically one thing, while many of us are good at several, or many things....

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Update: Mystery of the stranger on my porch at 3AM.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 30 Nov

I did post in the night when my door camera went off, and there was an older man on my porch. It was nearly 3AM, and no, I didn't open the door. I didn't recognize him...but I did call the police, as the man did not seem quite...

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Stranger on my porch...

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 30 Nov

At 2:44 AM, my door cam went off. This has happened occasionally, always due to nature out in the night...the occasional raccoon, squirrel, bunny, and twice in one night, a little red fox. But never a human at that hour, never....

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A small but happy Thanksgiving this year.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 28 Nov

Well, Thanksgiving 2024 is in the books. This was the smallest gathering we have had in a lot of years. The last few years, we have had both of my sons, a daughter in law, at least two grands of the oldest son, and sometimes my...

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An unexpected bird showed up at my house.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 26 Nov

No, Thanksgiving isn't early. But a turkey showed up last night. We are going to go to my daughter and son in law's home for Thanksgiving dinner. Last year, we broke with tradition, and had an absolutely wonderful Prime Rib...

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Lasagna Love? It's a real thing.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 26 Nov

Some of you may have heard of this happening somewhere in your area/community/city/whatever. It has spread to some other countries in the last few years, since it started in the US. Lasagna Love is a way to cheer others, to...

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I made it official today.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 21 Nov

No, didn't get married. Didn't win the lottery, or decide on anything requiring money or official papers or anything. I RESTED. I WORE PAJAMAS ALL DAY LONG!!! Oh, I can hear it now...gee, Marie is soooooo lazy. Maybe I am....

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Does anyone still own, or use, an electric skillet?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 19 Nov

I suppose they are ''out of style'' but hey...they made, and still make, great food! I grew up with the electric skillet being one of the ultimate kitchen things to have. If someone didn't have one, they wanted one. They were...

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Power was out for hours.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 19 Nov

And I hate it when that happens. We had some wild, consistent winds, and the power blinked on and off until about 5AM....then it just went off, and didn't come back on. Supposedly, the wind did a number on something, somewhere....

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Have you ever simplified your Christmas?

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 17 Nov

Like many people, over the years of all the kids being home, Christmas got more and more hectic. More food, more gifts, more wrapping of gifts, more planning, and definitely more exhausting. One day I realized we just didn't enjoy...

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A surprise I didn't need!

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 15 Nov

Maybe some of you will remember that last year, I was in a car accident. A lady pulled out of a fast-food restaurant and slammed into the side of my car, while I was driving down the highway. Police were called, she received 3...

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Expensive food does not necessarily mean good food.

Marie Coyle @MarieCoyle (38573) 10 Nov

A neighbor close by decided she would get big time into a strict Keto diet. She asked me about it, but I told her it didn't interest me as it was just too much meat, etc. She jumped in, went out and bought a ton of stuff, and...

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