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Hitchin’ a Ride to Andromeda.
I was never really a Twitter guy. Sure, I had an account, but I rarely Tweeted. Hardly ever logged on at all, for that matter. It was a good source for breaking news — like many, I was glued to the platform on Jan. 6, 2021 — but as far as the socials go, Twitter…
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We can grow cheese like nobody’s business.
When we bought our house last year and Dick told us there was a peach tree in the backyard, I was skeptical. “Poor guy’s losing his mind,” I said to Tara. “Peaches don’t grow in Wisconsin!” Apparently, our peach tree never got that memo. That’s just what we picked yesterday. We began a week ago.…
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Help, I fell down a Zillow rabbit hole!
Just for fun, I looked up my old house on Zillow the other day. The one in Vancouver, WA (I need to specify since I’m so damn fond of moving). It was new construction in 1995, and my ex and I bought it for $130,000. When we divorced in 2006, we sold it for $249,900…
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Tractor pulls and other currant events.
Nothing screams summer like the county fair. I’ve been to a lot of county fairs in my life. To be fair, I’ve lived in a lot of counties in my life. And while they all tend to be pretty much the same – livestock exhibits, carnival rides, fried food, musical entertainment – I had never…
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Building model airplanes in my raspberry orchard.
Years ago, Tara signed up for Informed Delivery from USPS. She gets daily email alerts showing her what’s arriving in that day’s mail. Which I guess is handy – unless she has a birthday coming up and you order her a gift. “We have something coming from Bombas today?” she asked me this morning. @#$!%^…
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Thursday holidays are weird.
Unless there’s a turkey in the oven and a giant Snoopy balloon floating down West 77th Street, Thursday holidays are weird. And if you’re unlucky enough to have to work the next day, Friday feels odd, too. Almost like a second Monday, which – no offense to Monday – ain’t nobody got time for that.…
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