Saturday, August 4, 2012

Sustainable Saturday - Is Local Always Best?

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This is a slightly reworked post I wrote last December, three months after devestating floods hit portions of upstate NY.  Sadly, the buying...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

Where Customer Service Still Exists

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Kudos to L.L. Bean - an American institution. Last September, we vacationed in Maine, and visited Freeport and the L.L. Bean headquarter...
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Thursday, August 2, 2012

The Decline and Fall of the Local Newspaper Revisited

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Three years ago, I wrote the below (slightly edited) post.  I'm pleased (?) to report that our local newspaper has continued to find ne...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Summer Blooms - Guacamole and Captain Kirk

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What do guacamole and Captain Kirk have in common? A better question might be: have you ever wondered about how they name varieties of flo...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

A Late July Upstate NY Farmers Market

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What is late July bringing to our local Binghamton, NY area farmers markets?  We were at the Otsiningo Park Farmers Market last Saturday. ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Yikes Skypes

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We've come a long way from the Picturephone at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York City. As a school child, I visited the Fair both with m...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Civil War Sunday - Onward, Reenactors

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It's been a little over a year now since Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson fought at First Bull Run (First Manassas), the first ...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Sustainable Saturday- I'm Falling Apart-Are You?

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No, it really isn't me falling apart (although my back, which suddenly has decided to trouble me again, might make me change my mind), b...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

A Dark, Stormy and Science Fiction-y Night

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A stormy night, modern style. In my childhood, this would have been a science fiction dream. I leave a few minutes early from work, becaus...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012

No Gnats No Wasps - No Problem?

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Spouse cleaned up our patio area in our upstate NY back yard yesterday, and did a little backyard gardening work, taking advantage of a brea...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Wednesday Blooms - A Midsummer Afternoon's Dream

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August is upon us, ignoring the calendar. The crickets are chirping.  Goldenrod is blooming all along roadsides.  We actually got some rai...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Siri - Seriously?

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On Sunday I tested out the virtual assistant Siri on my iPhone 4S.  I've had the phone some three months but had never tried Siri out. ...
Monday, July 23, 2012

The Awakening of the Dragons

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A dragon boat race is part of an overall "Dragon Boat Festival" that technically, in the Chinese culture, is held on the 5th day o...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Civil War Sunday -Need for Preservation

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Did you know that many of our Civil War battlefields, forts, and other sites are in danger of being swallowed up by development? Actually,...
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Saturday, July 21, 2012

Sustainable Saturday - How to Pick Blueberries

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We are so fortunate, here in upstate New York.  We have a variety of local farms offering you-pick blueberries.  All of our commercial berri...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Let His Name be Stricken from the Earth

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I was not planning on two posts today, and there are very good reasons why I should not blog and post about the events of early this morning...
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Visions of Tomato Sandwiches

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Upstate New York is not the place you expect to grow tomatoes and have them ready in July.  Not unless you undertake heroic measures, such a...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Locally Grown- Internationally Published

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Today, in the Binghamton library, I saw a book they had recently purchased.  "This would be great for my Sustainable Saturday post!...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Wednesday Blooms - This and That

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On this Wednesday in mid-July, I wanted to celebrate the beautiful flowers in bloom, here in upstate New York.l Our local botanical garde...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Row Well and Live

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Today's quiz:  in what sport can a boat of 60 year old rowers win a race against 20 year old racers? In Ithaca, NY on Bastille Day 201...