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WHEN!!! I’m sure some other parts of this planet would be happy to have some of this torrential rain. Because we’re all set for now - really. Please? Screen shot from WBZ4 Weather Radar

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Thanks to Papamoka, we have this video created by his circle of extended family and friends on the northern shores of the Quabbin Reservoir. Percussionist Doug Plavin clearly knows how to get people movin’ and groovin’! Do pay close attention to the funding source credit at the end of the video... ;o)

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Happy 26th Wedding Anniversary J & K!

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Actually, sick-as-a-dog. Hopefully, I will be 100% in no time. The good news is that the last 24 hours guarantees Chuck will be the first person to be canonized while still alive!

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:: Thank you to everyone who has been clicking off to sign the petition urging the U.S. Census Bureau not to edit the 2010 Census. (See July 18 - “Call For Action & Accuracy” below.) :: I am very much enjoying the television series “In Plain Sight” on the USA network. :: The New England region has the highest consumption of ice cream per capita in the United States. It makes me proud to be

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It was through DancingMorganMouse that I found the ultimate happy dance video. It’s definitely worth a look. I smiled all the way through. Click here to see the video. You can learn more here. By the way, feel free to join in as you watch. That could only be a good thing for you and the planet in general!

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Back in 2000, I had a temporary job with the U.S. Census Bureau as an enumerator. I went through a training course and learned how to accurately and thoroughly gather and report data. Making sure that maps were correct, new homes noted and finding out how many folks were living in communities was all very important. My work with the Census Bureau was sometimes challenging, (especially after a

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Yesterday, both of these beautiful butterflies dined on our Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in the dooryard. The top one is a Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes. I’m pretty sure she is in fact a female so let’s call her Poly. The one on the lower right is a Monarch - Danaus plexippus. Because I can only see the underside of the wings, I can’t guess at gender. So let’s call it Dani. If you

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I didn’t want to care about tonight’s last night and this morning’s All Star Game at the soon to be “old” Yankee Stadium, but I couldn’t help it! It was a great game! Tied at 3 - 3 in the eighth inning, it stayed that way through the second seventh inning stretch in the fourteenth inning! Finally, the American League, packed with Boston Red Sox players, scored the winning run in the bottom of

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“We gaze up at the same stars, the sky covers us all, the same universe encompasses us. What does it matter what practical system we adopt in our search for the truth? Not by one avenue only can we arrive at so tremendous a secret.” - Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (circa 340 - 402) The first sentence in the quote from Symmachus makes me think of this community within the blogosphere. As Roo

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Chuck and I recently watched a television report on high end bookbinding on “CBS Sunday Morning”. The exquisite bindings by Herb Weitz and Jamie Kamph were dazzlingly beautiful and tremendously expensive. That prompted Chuck to pose the following question: If you could choose one book to have bound in a fabulously deluxe, once-in-a-lifetime way, what book would you choose? Would it be a

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The uniquely southern, delicate and light baking flour “White Lily” is no longer being produced in Knoxville, Tennessee. The J.M. Smucker Company (Oh Lord, I am biting my tongue and holding my fingers in check as I type the name “Smuckers”) bought White Lily and decided to stop milling the flour where it had been milled for 125 years. I referenced the famous and decidedly regional White Lily

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Jessica Sprague posted a Photoshop Tutorial yesterday that she called “ShaZAM!” She suggested that we try the technique on a photograph and post the before and after imagess. As always, her tutorial is very clear and involves two duplicate layers of the original photo. You treat each layer a little differently, (one as Screen, the other as Overlay) and adjust the opacities until you achieve

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Translation: Beer Here - as spoken with a somewhat exaggerated New England accent. In an ideal world, Chuck and I would go up to Bar Harbor twice a year; once in the spring, once in the autumn. But the last two springs we haven’t been able to go. So yesterday we decided to make a day trip to southern Maine. We figured we would bring a couple of pairs of Birkenstocks to be repaired and we

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Spent the better part of today trying to figure out what projects I could accomplish in the air conditioned bedroom: - Sewed on a pocket button - Folded laundry - Discovered “Grain” in Photoshop Elements as I digi-scrapped on the laptop - Talked with my Mom when she called me from the casino in Connecticut - Watched/listened as the Red Sox beat the Twins 18 - 5 - Paid bills on line -

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Hi - I’m tired and hot and soooo very close to whining that I should not be typing and certainly not allowed to post! The meteorologists say tomorrow will be the last really miserable day. Then it will become less humid, but still hot. I am not a happy camper. What’s that you say? Where’s my “Attitude of Gratitude”? I don’t know. I will look for it in my air conditioned bedroom, as I lie on

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A couple of weeks ago, I downloaded Cathy Zielske’s PDF for her driend Sarah’s “Sesame Noodle Salad”. Tonight I finally made it. It was WONDERFUL! It also was very quick and easy to make. Of course, being who I am, I didn’t actually measure anything nor did I follow it to the letter (serious understatement!). You go download the PDF of the recipe and look at the pretty photograph of Cathy’

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New Mom Veronica has uploaded more photographs of the lovely and getting-stronger-every-day Sarah Faith! Swing by Ronnie’s blog and make those happy “ooh” and “aah” sounds as you smile!

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Are two adults and two poults (chicks) sufficient to declare we had a rafter of Wild Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) around here today? Hearing no nays, a rafter it is! Around noontime today, I glanced out the window and saw something large moving in the southwest corner of our front yard. When I realized it was turkeys, I got my camera. I took one shot through the multiple panes of a

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Today, my Mom, Chuck and I attended the memorial service for my Uncle Bill. It was a solemn and moving ceremony. Uncle Bill served in the Navy during World War II and left service with the rank of Lieutenant. Today, as Aunt Bev stood surrounded by their seven children and their extended family and friends, the Navy honor guard presented her with the American flag. In listening to the sharp,

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“We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” - From the preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776 I looked back to last July to see what image I had posted

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For years I have kept an oversized index card with the all of the Coats & Clark thread colors I own written on it. I tuck it in my purse and whip it out after I’ve chosen fabric and I’m ready to pick out thread. But because I tend to buy close shades, I usually have a good supply, in a wide range of colors. Recently, I needed to replace a spool of beige thread, # 116. So I simply grabbed the

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...nothing but blue skies. In 1926 Irving Berlin wrote “Blue Skies”. Frank, Ella, Bing, Willie and the McGuire Sisters (just to name a very few) have all recorded it. You can listen here. Hope you have a wonderful day!

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Heinz, as in the ketchup, ran the above Deli Mayo television advertisement in the United Kingdom. Then, the H.J. Heinz Company pulled the ad. According to Heinz spokesperson Michael Mullen: "Heinz has confirmed that it withdrew a UK TV commercial for Deli Mayo last week because it was not in accordance with Heinz’s long-standing corporate policy of respecting everyone’s rights and values. “

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Whooooosh!!! Did you hear that? That’s the sound of running water my friends and it is a wonderful sound indeed! The sensation of hot and cold running water from start to finish in the shower is particularly awesome! And don’t even get me started on the wonder and the glory that is the indoor plumbed flush toilet! Happy sigh of contentment... Dave and Marc from County Pump arrived first

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