Sunday, December 15, 2019

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day-December 2019

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Winter has come to the Southern Tier of New York, and my zone 5b garden has nothing to show outside.   The pansies, still alive, have no flo...
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Saturday, December 14, 2019

Misty Saturday.

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Just two weeks after a major snowstorm, it was a foggy, warmish day in the Southern Tier of upstate New York.  Later in the day it would rai...
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Friday, December 13, 2019

Seeing the Sunrise and Sunset #SkywatchFriday

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It's been so cloudy in the past couple of weeks, here in the Southern Tier of upstate New York.  It's been a rare thing to see a sun...
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Thursday, December 12, 2019

Skies of Grey and Blue #ThursdayTreeLove

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I love the look of snowy trees.  As much as I detest winter, there is a certain beauty in these pictures.  I live about 150 miles from New Y...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Things Remembered #WordlessWednesday

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I was in our local mall this past weekend, admiring the holiday decorations. Our mall is under new ownership, and they have made quite t...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Kindness Month

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Today, I received an email about December being a "Month of Kindness"  I've seen various calendars now, with each day of De...
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Monday, December 9, 2019

Offbeat Christmas#MusicMovesMe

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It's the second Monday of December and music lovers everywhere have geared up for the holiday season.  It's time for Music Moves Me....
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Sunday, December 8, 2019

Not Quite a Fairytale

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Nothing like controversy when it comes to Christmas songs. Last year it was Santa Baby, written by now 93 year old Phil Springer (interv...
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Saturday, December 7, 2019

Remembering Another Pearl Harbor Anniversary

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December 7, 2019, 78 years after the day that would live on in infamy - the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  Pearl Harbor Day was the day...
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Friday, December 6, 2019

Snow of the Season #SkywatchFriday

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Winter arrived for good where I live in upstate New York Sunday and Monday.  We received about 1/2 inch of sleet and freezing rain Sunday, a...
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Thursday, December 5, 2019

The Peleton Controversy

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Would you like an exercise bike that costs around $2,245 (or more) whose main selling feature is a large internet enabled screen that allows...
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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

When Snow Feels Like Forever #WordlessWednesday

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Some of my Wordless Wednesday readers have never seen snow, except in photos.  For some reason, seeing pictures of it gives them pleasure. ...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

A New Task for St. Anthony

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I first blogged this in 2018.  My mother in law passed away last year, but since then, we've had a couple of more encounters with St. An...
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Monday, December 2, 2019

Oh Christmas Trees #MusicMovesMe

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It's the first Monday of December and music lovers everywhere are gearing up for the holiday season. It's time for the Holiday Spe...
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Sunday, December 1, 2019

Small Business Saturday

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I know.   Officially, Small Business Sunday was yesterday.  But something happened today that, to me, outlines a difference between local me...
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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Local Saturday - Last Day of Fall and A Blue Sky Holiday Season

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That thud you heard sometime between Wednesday and Friday was me falling off the Small Business Saturday wagon. A year after a series of d...
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Friday, November 29, 2019

Disappearing Rainbow #SkywatchFriday

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On Wednesday I left work early.  I heard a crafts store was suddenly going out of business, and I was making an afghan with yarn only they s...
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