Going to the city is not very high on the list of things that I like to do: it’s penciled in on one of the lines toward the bottom between having a root canal and breaking one of my favorite ribs. Sometimes though, it has to be done. This morning, resisting the urge to take [...]
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At around eleven Saturday morning our electric power came back to us after an absence of some 32 hours. A severe storm that the TV weather people had threatened us with for days had arrived right on schedule and pretty much lived up to its billing.
I understand there are several environmental groups that are quite [...]
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Early this morning a flight of Canadian geese could be seen over the river in their familiar “V” pattern, but this time something was not right: instead of even pairs, there were only thirteen. These beautiful big birds mate for life, and if one loses its mate, it will usually take another the following year, [...]
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