Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day GI Love Story

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This Memorial Day, I'd like to write about an incident back in March when spouse and I were touring the Rural Telephone Museum  in the s...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Facebook for All Generations?

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Spouse and I are at his Mom's house right now.  After a nice dinner, one of her neighbors came over for dessert. We got to talking abo...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Adventures in Handicapped Travel

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In July we are going to be taking my mother in law to a wedding on the Jersey Shore. My mother in law needs some assistance physically; sh...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

She Ain't No Ant of Mine

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Two weeks in a row. We use large outdoor pots for some of our annuals. Last week spouse started to prepare one of the pots.  He dug in.....
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Tired Sunday

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Today: transplanting, planting, repotting house plants.  Spouse doing all the "heavy lifting", thank heavens I have him.  I never ...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

The Big Day of Gardening

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Today, while my back yelled at me, we had our annual Gardening Day. Set up a couple of hanging baskets; Planted impatiens in front plante...

Querying More than the Hive Mind - True or Hoax?

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I got this from a very unlikely source, but one that has proved trustworthy for me before.  I haven't ever followed Metafilter but maybe...

Vote, vote for Miss Rheingold...I mean, for Asheville, NC Beer

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Asheville, NC, population around 75,000. has 8 microbreweries (if memory serves). We bought a small case from one back from our visit the en...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

San Francisco Movie

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This video link has probably been emailed to everyone in the United States by now, but I have to express my pleasure that I was one of the r...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

May Showers Bring - Mail Order Plants

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It was rainy almost all day today, with highs in the 50's. It remains warmer in Fairbanks, and they are almost at their 19 hour day to...

Eternal Reefs

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As an anthropology major in college, I realize not all religious traditions would "recognize" something like this as being a valid...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Ithaca Plant Sale 2010

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How does Ithaca, with less population than our area, do it? Yesterday was "Super Saturday".  Week two of their library book sale...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Caregiving 101

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I've watched friends and relatives go through caring for their aging parents.  I've heard their stories.  I even have a friend who i...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

American Idol Please Listen

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Today, I took the survey on the American Idol website. I used to really enjoy American Idol.  I started watching it towards the end of Se...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Happy Mothers Day to two Special Moms in Heaven

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Happy Mothers Day, Mom.  I have not seen you since 1965, when a medical condition suddenly removed you from my life.  But I think of you dai...
Saturday, May 8, 2010

Happy Birthday, Katniss Everdeen

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May 8 (of some year in the future) is the birthday of Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of the books The Hunger Games and Catching Fire , both ...

This Years "Fun in Gardening Experiments"

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Successes:  Last year I blogged about purchasing a cardamon plant.  I put it in my office, and it has thrived.  And thrived. I could repot ...

The Earliest Spring Ever, about to Collide with Winter

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The day before Mother's Day.  May 8. Lilacs, dogwoods and azaleas are in full bloom.  Some of our irises (which normally don't bloo...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Ithaca Friends of the Library Book Sale

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I won't be there tomorrow when it opens at 8am, but it is time for the awesome Friends of the Library book sale in Ithaca. I can'...

Change Is Sometimes Good

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Sorry, I'm not going to allow comments anymore. Looks like you can't disable blog comment posting readily. I have made it as restr...