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Boat Day: With Spiders
We’re in the last waning days of summer. I just moved to sit outside on the deck, to enjoy the summer sun, but it’s sixty-seven degrees right now, and feeling very much like autumn. The aspen tree has already lost … Continue reading
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Remember Flight 93
In the midst of the remembrances and reflections on the tenth anniversary of 9-11, I will remember and honor the brave people of Flight 93. That flight, aimed for our nation’s capital, was crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. … Continue reading
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Remodeling the Website
I’ve been working the last few days on another major website remodel. This gets rather technical, so bear with me. When I did the redesign I’ll call the “misty blue lake” design, I built using ASP.NET, a programming language based … Continue reading
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Tasha
We lost our dear Tasha last night, age 16. She was our baby from the time we were first married. Abandoned at four-weeks-old, weighing only one pound, and deaf, it was we who were the luckiest people on earth to … Continue reading
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Splendid Summer
Splendid Summer is a new website by an old friend, my college roommate Mary Matthews. She has a new book out, “Splendid Summer,” available on Kindle at Amazon.com. It’s a mystery tale set in 1920′s San Diego. I helped Mary … Continue reading
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May 2, 2011
Flag flying over the Flight 93 Memorial site in Shanksville, PA And where is that band who so vauntingly swore, That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their … Continue reading
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Krystal Loves the Kitty Half-Time Show
The dog portion of Puppy Bowl VII on Animal Planet held no interest for her, but Krystal was enthralled by the Kitty Half-Time Bowl. Geo commented she probably thinks it’s the best way to have kittens in the house–on the … Continue reading
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Minnesota Winter Driving Rules
As I told to Husband his first winter here: 1. Green light does not mean ‘go’, it means check to see if the other direction can stop. The car sliding sideways through the intersection on a red has the right-of-way. … Continue reading
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Dobby the Deer
Naturally it was right after the big foot-and-a-half snowstorm that I first saw the lone baby deer struggling through the snow toward the house. It’s rare to see a deer alone here. Usually they’re in groups of four to a … Continue reading
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The Stages of Christmas Lights Denial
It’s November 12th, and I’ve now passed through the first stage of Christmas Lights Denial. This is the stage where I sigh heavily, look around the place, and decide putting up lights is really far too much work and I … Continue reading
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Boat Day
It’s Boat Day today but, alas, not the good kind of Boat Day. We’re going up to the lake to take the boat out of the water for the season. Today is all about utility–getting the trailer hitched up, getting … Continue reading
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Sheba Loves Her Furry Papa
Our sweet little Siamese girl, Sheba, thinks proper cat-parents should be furry like her. She loves her papa’s winter beard. Continue reading
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