tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-97937922012-01-15T17:04:51.903-05:00Musing [Dictionary.com]:Contemplation; meditation. A product of contemplation; a thought. “an elegant tapestry of quotations, musings, aphorisms, and autobiographical reflections” (James Atlas). I probably won't be elegant and I don't know what "aphorisms" means but I do have a lot to say after 64 years. With each post, I travel around the internet "lifting" images to appear with my posts. If you find an image you don't think I should use please email me and I will immediately remove it.Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.comBlogger2881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-85785764042907758682010-08-21T14:31:00.005-05:002010-08-21T15:33:09.074-05:00

Nice pictures to see in these confusing times. The sound of freedom I think. Our local Air National Guard 104th Fighter Wing Base at Barnes Municipal Airport, Westfield MA is hosting an Air Show this weekend. The Thunderbirds are the premier event but there are lot of other attractions there also. For more info click air show link aboveThese photo's were all taken on Friday during the

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July 3rd was the actual date for Westfield's 4th of July celebration. Westfield Kiwanis is the group that put it on, I am a member, now, along with my wife. This is our 3rd year of doing the event and we finally made some money. It isn't a lot but it is enough so we don't have to borrow from ourselves to start next years event. As you can see we had a flyover by two of our F-15's from th 104th

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As I sit here, pondering the past few weeks or months, trying to come up with a respectable post I realized that the Christmas season was over. To me the Christmas season runs from Thanksgiving to New Years Eve. The reason it starts with Thanksgiving is that is when the pre-Christmas sales begin and the reason it ends with New Years Eve as that is when people turn their Christmas lights off. Why

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Here I am just getting back into blogging and a major malfunction occurs. I have had my desktop with my computer guy to clean things up and he did a good job. I just brought it back and set it up, plugged in my new Tera drive, then I put in a SD chip to download photos and BOOM. A bright yellow screen appeared with bright blue letters. What the.........? You must shutdown your computer, a problem

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WHAT this guy just bought a new camera, a Cannon Rebel T1i no less, and now he goes out an buys a new laptop. What gives? Is he rich or what? An acquittance just posed this question to me last week. I would answer that I am just CRAZY! I have had this camera for a few months now and I still don't know how it really works. I never expected this kind of a learning scale to be involved. I didn't

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My computer was rapidly becoming full to overflowing with photos taken with my new camera, my Canon Rebel T1i. Because of the 15.1 mega pixel sensor the photos are all in the 3-5 megabits range on every photo and I was taking hundreds of photos. I resisted using my movie capabilities with the camera as I could picture megabits bursting out of the seams of my poor little hp computer besides I

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This picture of the moon sent my heart racing as I looked at the camera and couldn't be happier. Got the camera with a 18-55mm zoom; a 75-300 lens; A tripod; backpack camera case; extra SD memory chips and a special one to use for movies. In case I didn't mention it has a 15.1 Mega Pixel CMOS sensor; 3" clear view LCD with live view;HD 1080p, 720p and VGA Video Capture. This is way more camera

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This was my graduation present, from my parents, upon getting a High School Diploma. I was thrilled, not about the Diploma but about the camera as it was a single lens reflex and a Pentax H1. I was very involved in photograph from about the age of 10 when I made my first contact print in our basement. My brother had received a contact printer and didn'treally use it so I just made it mine. There

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As I write this posting I am 66 years old, which means that I have been on Medicare over one year and officially retired as I am soon to receive my first retirement check from the US Government. In this past year I have joined Kiwanis and joined Facebook. My wife and I went on diets and are really doing well at that and I need to share that information as we have discovered a new diet which we

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Stanley Park..../early spring visitMy Daughter, Grandson and I took one our nicer mornings off and headed to Stanley Park in Westfield. Sam was app pumped up about the Ducks in the park and had read a bunch about them and the Geese on line. The Park isn't completely open yet so you have to do a lot of walking to get to everything. There were a ton of people walking dogs but all of them were on

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This is one of the best Political Cartoons that I have seen in a long time. I like political cartoons and I look at a lot of them. Some really make me laugh, as this one has, and makes me want to share it. Very rarely can I find someone that enjoys them as I do. Sometimes I don't get them but that is usually a product of my education or worldliness or lack there of. So I share this one with you

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WARNING another political postingJust a reminder to not let your guard down, to keep paying attention. WE did, we let the ball drop; my generation did that. My fathers generation were the recepients of the last Depression and it scared them really bad, so much so that many still won't accept any credit for anything. They pay cash for their cars and for their homes for their groceries and at the

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WARNING: Another Political postingAs I write this it appears that the Republicans and Democrats are close to a compromise on the bailout plan. Its called a bailout plan because it is bailing out wall street. I'm not for that but whatever it takes to keep this country out of a deep recession I would be in favor off. Another thing I don't like is the fact that the bill contains 6 billion in Pork

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WARNING: Political postingInformation in this article was heavily borrowed from articles in our paper by The Associated Press reported by Lolita C Baldor about the Generals and Rachel Beck and Ellen Simon for the CEO story. Thank you ladies.I am going to put up a political posting but I am very reluctant to do so. Over the past 300 or so posts I have refrained from politics, except of course to

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GG sent me this photo of a Tobacco Barn. Barns are great background for any type of outdoor photo. Thanks GG

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A few weeks ago I put up a lovely posting on shade tobacco grown in the Connecticut Valley. The only picture of the tobacco leaves I had were none. Today I was driving by the barns of one of our local tobacco growers and lo and behold there was the perfect opportunity to get some good photo's of Tobacco drying and wouldn't you know it, I didn't have my camera. We turned the car around and headed

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So what is so big about a stupid chair anyway? Well to start with it's my chair. I like it because its comfortable. It's stationed in our small garden at the end of our driveway and it is attached to the house. It is ripped and torn and soon it's going to die. I have already been thinking about when that day comes, am I going to rebuild it. You know, new webbing and that's a lot of work.

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It seems that we are on way to many special mailing lists Today we received a wedding announcement in the mail telling us that the young couple had recently been married and it requested that no gifts be sent but prepaid MasterCard and Visa gift cards would be acceptable. A reasonable request I imagine. We received an invitation to an anniversary party of some friends of ours and this would be

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Saying "It's Hydrangea time again" is a harbrindger to New England's most beautiful season, Fall. Our temperature this morning was 45 degrees. We do have a few tree turning but the full leaf tree experience is a while away, meantime we should enjoy Hydrangea Time. Our cemetery is bursting at the seams with the beautiful white blossoms of hydrangea quickly reaching their peak. We have Hydrangea

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2008 OlympicsThe 2008 Olympics are now over. Hooray! Now I can get back to watching the Red Sox and Cops on the tube again. Not really. We thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics and I have found a new love for Volleyball which was invented in Holyoke MA now home to the Volleyball Hall of Fame. Of all that the Chinese did, I will have to say that the thing that impressed me the most was the fireworks

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These are really two cute little dogs just minding their own business. Molly is on the left and Bridget is on the right. Breaking away from play long enough to eat and pose for a picture. I think they look too innocent and as I looked at their bowls, I notice that Molly's bowl of water has turned dark brown as the water bowl is full of dirt.These two get to play their day away in the garden next

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One of the interesting sights as you travel about the back roads of our Connecticut Valley is the sight of acres and acres of white tents. These tents shade the valuable Shade Tobacco Crop. The Connecticut Valley is a major source of some of the world's finest wrapper leaves. This golden colored wrapper tobacco is highly regarded and praised by many cigar makers and connoisseurs. Connecticut

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These are photo's of some pink Roses that we removed a few years ago at a grave in the cemetery. We don't allow them on the graves because people tend to not take care of them and just let them go wild. They get very tall, after a while and there is nothing more exciting than mowing at 8-10 miles per hour, next to a stone with roses and the wind blows them in your path. Usually it means a trip to

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Boo-Ellen, Michael and SamsBlack Lab! This is their computer wallpaperMolly on left and Bridget on Right. Our Dogs Howling. Maggee, Easthampton. GG's dog. This is the wallpaper on my outlook express. 1st thing I see every morning when I turn on my computer. Love It!Ellen's garden frog. Can you tell she is a teacher? Woops, My Bad!

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My daughter is a firm believer in a “Green World” and works very hard practicing what she preaches. She has got her family trained very well in the art of conserving and they all work equally hard at it. Trash recycling day is a big one at their house as they always have everything washed, stripped, sorted and tied all properly placed curbside awaiting the city trucks to arrive. They work at

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This is a late afternoon cloud photo, over our cemetery, I took a couple of days ago and it turned out to be a major producer of a couple of inches of rain. Our Western Mass area has been inundated with all sorts of storms lately. We are just coming off a July that turned out to be the wettest on record and August is looking to already be the same thing. Most of the storms are in the afternoon

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We went for supper last evening at our daughter’s home and out of desperation I asked her “what can I blog about?” in fact I asked her several times as I was experiencing the dreaded “Blogger’s Block” and needed help.. She walked up and said “blog about this” as she tossed a box of Fresh Drops to me”. The scan of the box is below but the person sitting on the toilet caught my eye and it was blog

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What a Croc!And that is what these are….”CROCS” This all started out because my daughter Ellen send me an email with a web site called I Hate crocs dot com. And I took a look. I didn’t even know that I hated Crocs but there it was right in front of me. The closest I had ever been to a Crocs [outside of Florida when I got way to close to take a picture of one and it came after me, but that’s a

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This is how you get your puppies to sleep. I really couldn't believe this video when my wife sent it to me. Wish I could get our two puppies to mind so well. think I will try singing to them when they start tearing around and we want to sleep. I'll let you know if it works. This is one of those video's that you say "AWWWW" when it is over.

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With skyrocketing oil prices, the cost of heating homes is jumping off the charts. The Department of Energy expects heating bills to be 27 percent higher this winter for people who heat with oil and 41 percent higher for those who heat with natural gas. In cold-winter climates, this number will be closer to 30 percent. What can you do? I say "convert to wood pellet stoves">This is the new fuel:

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These are all cemetery Lilies

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These are Lilies sent to me by GG of Easthampton. A bit of a Lily herself. This last one is a bit of a cranky Lily called Magee of Easthampton. My favorite. Thanks for the Pics GG!

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So who is this? It's the new Batman of course, Terry McGinnis (Batman II, The Tomorrow Knight). This guy has actually been around over in Europe, for the past 8 years, fighting evil. Maybe your more of a "now" movie buff and will want to remember Batman as looking like this portrayal, by the late Heath Ledger Personally, my preference is with the comic book additions.These are two more types of

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Glascow Lands Scottish FestivalThis is the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival that is held in Florence/Northampton MA every year about this time and the time for it was this past Saturday. We all jumped in the family van and headed North for this one. 1st of all we're all Scottish; 2nd of all is that we were involved with the festival a few years ago as vendors; thirdly our

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Sometimes the photo op's jump right out at you. This is from our friend GG's side yard where we were visiting this morning. She has about 10 plants and all equally beautiful.

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Ahh, Medicare what a trip. Got an email from them giving me my new secret codes that will allow me to enter and navigate through “My Medicare . gov. The also sent me, the wildly popular pdfs, “My Medicare.gov Quick Reference guide” and the equally popular “Dashboard Reference”. They also told me that I have to: go get a physical and take a test for “Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm” which is done with

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My son-in-law was in need of a cap for his short bed pickup but they needed to haul their two big dogs around such as taking them to the dog park and to the river for a swim. They just got rid of their Jeep, which worked good for hauling the dogs, but daughter teaches about ¼ block from their house and son Sam is starting there in the fall. They really don’t need a second vehicle, especially a

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This past weekend our Grandson Sam, daughter, son-in-law, Boo [Black Lab] and Randy [Golden Doodle] all headed over to a favorite Dog Park in Connecticut. After some intense playtime they took the dogs around back, where there is a river, so that the dogs can swim. Really it is only Boo that swims [as you can tell by the picture]and when you look at the picture of Randy standing in the river you

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Saturday Sam, his Mom and Step Dad all took a bus to Fenway park and got to watch the Red Sox trounce the Orioles 12 to 1 and took the division lead at the break. They got to watch 4 homeruns and one of them be a Grand Slam. Best of all [according to me] they watched Tim Wakefield do his magic on the Orioles batters.Best of all [according to them] was they got to devour 3 Fenway Franks. Upon

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Beautiful roses from our "Most Prolific" rose garden

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I am now and truly an “Old Man”. Today I signed up for Medicare! What an experience that has been. Naturally I procrastinated it and refused to read anything about it until these past few days. My birthday is in June and apparently I was supposed to do all of this 3 months ago. The System assumes that there are lots of people out there, just like me, Super Procrastinators I believe we are called

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Two blonds were in a parking lot trying to unlock the door of their Mercedes with a coat hanger. They tried and tried to get the door open, but they couldn't. The girl with the coat hanger stopped for a moment to catch her breath, and her friend said anxiously, "Hurry up! It's starting to rain and the top is down."A blond police officer pulls over a blond gal in a convertible sports car for

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That is a picture of a full grown Black Lab, named Boo, that lives at my daughters, my son-in-laws and grandsons home. A Black Lab with a sweet tooth. Sure glad it lives there and not here!

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Each morning, the students swipe their ID tags as they climb onto the school bus. A radio frequency tag tracks them, as it does when they arrive at school and as they leave the building.Cameras watch them all day. Every visitor — parents, volunteers, the guy who fills the Coke machine — must surrender his or her driver's license to a secretary who checks it against a national database of sex

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What is it that tells you that Spring is really here? How about some 66 degree temperatures? Being able to leave your coat at home when you go for a walk? We all have a different trigger to signify a change in seasons and for me it is going to work in the morning at the cemetery and as I go through the main gate and I look at one of our planting beds and see the following sight.I quickly jump out

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Yesterday I started my computer and as it started up, the screen turned black and that was all that there was. My heart stopped! How can that possible be? I turned it off and restarted and as it came up the screen went black again and there was no more. No explanation, no list of things that went bad, no fatal exception warning, no nothing. I tried a dozen times to no avail. This is every

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We are now on line with our own web site at http://pinehillcemetery.com/ . I am building the site and it has been a real challenge. During the past several weeks I have been having all sorts of problems with my computer with a little problem called locking up and shutting down. Makes it a little tough to download things for uploading to my new web site but I managed. Still haven't figured out how

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-88289563938016295242008-03-22T18:59:00.004-05:002008-03-22T20:15:57.379-05:00

My daughter is very good at keeping her marriage alive and exciting. Her latest was to mess with her husband Mike's hair. Ellen cuts Mike's hair and does a pretty good job at it except that for the past three haircuts she left part of it uncut. She wanted to see if she could get him to grow a tail without his knowledge. I knew about it but didn't notice anything until just before this last

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-56666552447521992212008-03-16T16:16:00.006-05:002008-03-16T18:31:28.546-05:00

Monday my wife had the cartilage removed from her knee and is now recovering quiet well I might add. She is getting along with the aid of a cane that her grandfather used and it is over 100 years old. Neat! Before I tell you her experience I shall bore you with the details of two other torn cartilage incidents both involving me.I grew up as a jock and a pretty good one but golfing eluded me

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-8608158198270007892008-03-04T17:44:00.004-05:002008-03-04T17:55:38.026-05:00

Today is the day that I have chosen to share with you some of my very insignificant pet peeves. The first one is "fast food liter". We live next to an intersection that is fairly busy. The first thing in the morning we get a large rush of folks heading off to work. The rest of the day and most of the evening we get college kids going everywhere and they seem to be the worst litterers. This is a

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-12222794913569523462008-02-20T17:41:00.005-05:002008-02-20T20:08:49.934-05:00

How can you not love a face like this...This is Molly, a 10 week old, minature, red daple daschund that my wife just purchased for us. My wife didn't think our lives were complicated enough so she went out and bought a new dog. My daughter must share the blame because she went out and found the dog for her and then called me on the phone, reporting her find, hoping against hope that I would be

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-17830023615290106572008-01-22T16:27:00.000-05:002008-01-22T16:37:49.248-05:00

You deserve an update on the New Floor Blog. Sunday we went back to Lowes and purchased paint but the crutches did not work very well for my Wife so she used one of the motorized carts that are available. I went to the paint counter, with my paint chip in hand, while she elected to peruse the rest of Lowes with her electric cart. Later I found her coming down the main concourse with three new

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-33203395350398714302008-01-19T20:03:00.000-05:002008-01-19T20:09:30.993-05:00

We have decided to replace our kitchen floor and the job is going to be way tougher than it looks. I have 40 years experience to back up that statement, so we shall see. As a bit of a primer you will remember that my wife is the Superintendent of the Cemetery and I work for her as the Maintenance Superintendent and the cemetery, as part of the job, supplies us with a house. This is not any house

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-76815057995886110082007-11-19T21:05:00.000-05:002007-11-19T21:18:45.350-05:00

Here I am at 8PM standing in line at the cosmetics counter inside my local Walgreens Drug store waiting for the clerk to get off the phone with her husband. "Why am I here?" you might ask. " Well I am here waiting to buy razor blades of course. It seems that my razor blades, Gillette Mach 3, are such a highly pilfered item that they are kept behind lock and key in a secure cabinet guarded by

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Somewhere in the great bowels of The United States Navy lies The super secrete organization called "Bureau of Naval Personnel". NAVPERS as it is fondly referred to by sailors made our life choices for us prior to leaving Boot camp. Dickson, you are going to be a Machinist Mate and go the the Great Lakes to learn. Dalby [my joining up with buddy] you are going to be an Electrician and stay in San

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Earlier this afternoon, my family and I were having lunch at our local McDonald's using their latest coupon book which allowed for a basic buy one and get one free. I glanced down at my grandson Sam and he was playing with his DS. The Nintendo DS [according to Wikipedia] is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. . So I said "what's he doing?" and my daughter replied

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Across from our daughters home is a very nice park called Parker Park and is set up with memorials to all of the veterans from all of the past wars. It is filled with the memorial stones, benches, hedges, trees and a waterfall. It is a wonderful place for children to play. Yesterday I was over at my daughters house doing some work and as I left I noticed a group of children playing in the park. I

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Last night our family went to our favorite purveyor of books, music etc. Barnes and Noble for a recreational evening of reading, sipping coffee and buying a few books. Maybe I might have the opportunity of tearing apart a worthy opponent on a subject such as "who might our next president be?", or learning a few valuable tidbits from some passing Master Carpenter or even a water color painter. It

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You will notice, by the photoon on top, that we have a new addition to the family. This one is a she and her name is Bridget. ½ Yorkshire and ½ Shiatsu and there is absolutely nothing she can do. Scarred to death of her shadow and every noise that there is. We have her enrolled in “Puppy Kindergarten” and she has been to four classes and can’t do even one trick. Talk about throwing good

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I was visiting with a couple of old friends yesterday and we were talking about payphones and how they are disappearing when suddenly it hit me "Where have all the pay toilets gone?". Beats me, they just left for some reason or other. My friends remembered pay toilets, because they were both old but a 30 year old visiting with us didn't even have a clue about what a pay toilet was. Time for some

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After lunch I was pressed into service to make a beef stew for my daughter, son-in-law, grandson and us. I make the very best beef stew! It was a push to get it all done so it could simmer the proper amount of time as I also had to get on the other side of town to pick up our grave heater from a friend that was sand blasting it. I also had a job about 50% done [hanging a door] and I wanted to

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-49501249721539210472007-09-24T20:52:00.000-05:002007-10-03T21:30:00.416-05:00

Today I got to spend my day as part of the Jury Pool for the Hampton County Court system over in Springfield MA. It was a privilege! We don't often get the opportunity to participate as part of the independent judicial system but once every three years they give me a call and over I go with my heart in my hand, welcoming the chance to participate. I filled out the questionnaire that they

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This morning was a real benchmark for me. It was one of those mornings that shape the rest of your life. There are things that occur only once every 64 years and they should be recorded as I am doing now in this blog. This morning I wore my pajamas outside, to walk the dog and not just any pajamas. These were shortie pajamas. I held myself up for public scrutiny and ridicule as I strolled the

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-72026744768305767322007-09-16T16:28:00.001-05:002007-09-16T17:28:30.616-05:00

Now that I have discovered how to create jpeg's from my old slide collection I have decided to print some of them here. I'm going to take some of the slides from each event and tell a bit of a story about the event thereby forcing you to view my slide collection. It is kind of sad, as I go through the slide collection which represents thousands of slides from all over the world, that I am

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My wife and I are cleaning out our basement and some of the items we "find" are hauled upstairs to the porch for temporary storage. Today is a foul weather day and as I passed through the porch today I had to do a double-take trying to figure out what was in the chair. Once I figured it out I hollard for my wife to take a look and grabbed my camera. This is what I found. Not a real happy camper

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-51767265304527833852007-09-11T06:47:00.000-05:002007-09-11T06:51:13.908-05:00

I have never been a person that was willing to put anything drug like in my body except liquor. Beings I was an old submarine sailor I did plenty of that but never any kind of drug. I had some kind of a painkiller once for a very bad root canal but that was it. "If you couldn't cure it or kill it with alcohol it wasn't worth having" anyway that was the saying on my first boat the USS Picuda (

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Fall is on the way as the tell-tale signs of mother nature forecast. Our grass in the cemetery is just starting to turn brown and a few very early trees are showing some color. I take the dog out at 5:30 in the morning and most morning in the past two weeks have required a sweat shirt. The changes are very small and you have to really pay close attention because yesterday it was 91 here. Not very

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-57675007252892861532007-09-03T20:02:00.000-05:002007-09-04T06:38:48.168-05:00

This is my last pet story for a while. I have to get by the damn pets and get on with my life. The picture you are seeing here is what my computer screen looks like when I go to check my mail in the morning. Kinda scary and eye opening isn't it? Well that is Magee from a picture that Georgette sent me a while back and I keep it on my computer so that I start my day off right. We dog sat for

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-67586961799697024552007-08-30T19:46:00.000-05:002007-08-30T20:03:32.482-05:00

Owing to the fact that I have been out of touch since May I thought that some of you might be interested in our pets update. The photo is of Randy [the Goldendoodle] and of Boo [the Black Lab] frolicking in the snow, this past winter. You might remember that Dale and I partially raised Randy after Daughter and her son went shopping and brought him home to us as they lived with us at the time.

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-65616756474862324112007-08-30T06:33:00.000-05:002007-08-30T06:43:48.616-05:00

"What is so important about watering?" you ask. "Everything"! Here at our old cemetery we are slowly running out of room for graves and so we get creative about getting more grave sites so we grow them. Our cemetery, in 1843 was laid out in a grid or grave plots holding 12 to 16 graves with each row two plots wide or 40' wide and about 300 feet long, bounded on each side by a road called a

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I have just watched my first Vintage Base Ball games and loved it. As a family, we are members of a group called WOW whose duty it is to promote Westfield and bring non-profits together in that effort. We chose to participate in this Vintage Base Ball thing ever since reading the book. My wife and I participated in all of the 4 games of the first weekend as purveyors of band-aids and cold packs

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-30568579760047242242007-05-15T20:44:00.000-05:002007-05-15T20:52:25.666-05:00

This next story is too good for me not to post it. My lifelong friend, Signa Jean, forwarded it to me today. It is a window into the world I left behind 25 years ago. Signa Jean and her family have been our best friends for 40 years and all are now part of the family because their son married our daughter and the happy twosome live a few blocks away. We were part of that cowboy community in South

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-22460773466513759002007-05-06T19:57:00.000-05:002007-05-07T19:32:33.147-05:00

Recycling helps save the environment, especially when it comes to fences. My daughter and I have been doing that for the last 23 years. Our latest venture illustrates our efforts. We have a large side lot to our house and it is so large there is room for gardens, the carriage house, a fireplace with a covered table area, large English garden, all of our firewood storage, 50% of the parking for

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-31313682971953069142007-05-03T20:56:00.000-05:002007-05-03T21:12:00.067-05:00

Today one of our Board of Directors was in the office signing checks and our little pain-in-the-butt, Yorkie-Shiatsu, named Bridget attacked his shoes. He was wearing work shoes with laces and Bridget was trying to untie the shoes and he just ignored her. "Oh don't worry about her, my girlfriends little dog eats all of my shoe laces up, whether my feet are in the shoes or not" he ventured. "The

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-70933470672202848582007-04-26T18:49:00.000-05:002007-04-26T19:06:01.435-05:00

It is amazing how much mileage you can get out of a little hair growth. I start most conversations with “Have I told you that I am growing new hair?” and it seems to get an interesting conversation off and running. My wife is getting tired of hearing it but she did suggest “Lets ‘spike’ your hair for a different look and I’ve got some hair gel upstairs that you can use.” I was all for it. I told

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-8940195265217032952007-04-24T20:02:00.000-05:002007-04-24T20:17:36.458-05:00

Yup, it's true. I'M GROWING HAIR again. I have not had any hair, to speak of, for the past 20 years and here I am growing new hair on my head, right out of the blue. We all just noticed my head, yesterday, so it is a rather new phenomena and I feel that I should share it with the world. My sister-in-law is a Barber and for the past 25 years has cut my hair and she gave me my last hair cut on

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-35478367651070549512007-03-11T15:44:00.000-05:002007-03-11T15:53:33.196-05:00

Last year at this time we traveled to the Pomeroy Sugar House on the other side of Westfield, for Breakfast. On last years trip took along Flat Stanley for an adventure. You might want to take a look at the Flat Stanley link because I included pictures last year. Pancakes with sausage and homefries, all covered with lots of Freshly made Pure Maple Syrup and lots of coffee to wash it all down.

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-8766038929940018062007-03-11T09:30:00.000-05:002007-03-11T09:34:05.540-05:00

Thought that I might throw this picture in today. This is what my windshield looked like this morning at 8am. Yesterday at 8 it was 0 degrees and this morning it was 40. The sun was rising directly behind my truck so even though the temp was 40, the windshield was not directly in the sun. This was all ice crystals and it all quickly disappeared with one shot of windshield washer solution.

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-29705139694386220282007-03-08T19:26:00.000-05:002007-03-08T19:43:51.043-05:00

This posting is because I was challenged on what I said in an older posting "My Bear Killer": It was a gun posting about my Colt single action frontier scout .22 LR and in it I said "When I was off to college at Montana State University at Missoula, my Colt went with me." Then today I got a comment from Kerry who said "Just a technicality...but MSU is and always has been Montana State University

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-91229501385678573512007-02-25T15:59:00.000-05:002007-02-25T19:02:03.716-05:00

A wee bit of background is necessary in this story or you might just get the idea at I am a bit whacked, which I am not. Old but not yet whackey. My wife would have something different to say about that, I think. Last year I wrote an article about our cemetery being haunted or not and you might want to revisit the posting. My wife and I are cemetery superintendents and live across the street from

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-71639023706811534002007-01-25T07:36:00.000-05:002007-01-25T07:48:16.162-05:00

We get our vaults from a company called Wilbert Vault out of Springfield. We order them one by one, as the need arises, and when they come with them they place them in the evacuated hole for us. The driver with this one arrived to early and we were still just defrosting the ground to be able to dig. He wanted to know where he could leave it until we were ready for it. I told him "anywhere

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-4084292474541656732007-01-24T19:22:00.000-05:002007-02-11T13:21:43.921-05:00

A Drug Store is still a Drug Store,Right? Does this one look like one you had in your home town? Looks just like the one we had and it was called Urton's Rexall Drug. We had another Drug Store in town called Sturgis Drug and it was owned by our next door neighbor. We never went there but I don't know why. Urtons was our drug store. Being a budding young photographer, I purchased my first 35mm

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-12825363720059262182007-01-21T17:49:00.000-05:002007-01-22T07:39:33.160-05:00

Sleep Apnea is a condition where you literally stop breathing. "Apnea" is a Greek word meaning "without breath".Those with apnea literally stop breathing in their sleep. Typically the soft tissue, in the rear of the throat, collapses and closes the airway so that victims of sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during sleep; as frequently as a hundred times an hour and as little as five to seven

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This morning at 6am I found myself napping on my recliner in the living room. Normally I am up at 5 for the day but today I woke as normal and decided to catch a few more hours of sleep. I didn't need to do things until 8am and a few extra hours wouldn't hurt me. I covered myself with a blanket that my daughter had given me for Christmas. Suddenly a dog landed on my stomach and it was Maggie.

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-62122610160647238752007-01-09T19:00:00.000-05:002007-01-09T19:07:55.233-05:00

Maggie is back for a while. His Mom left on vacation for a couple of weeks and we are providing an alternative to the Kennel. Simon likes the new arrangements but Purrsey is being a bit standoffish. Purrsey has taken up residence at the top of the stairs where he can survey his kingdom even if it means flashy red eyes while on Maggie watch. Simon has done much better sharing things. The next

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-5585725616033819092007-01-08T07:27:00.000-05:002007-01-08T07:46:02.871-05:00

There is no better feeling than when all of the pain goes away as in "Teeth". It starts out with and abscessed tooth that causes terrible pain and you fight it with all sorts of things such as aspirin, Tylenol, Advil and maybe even all three at once as you work up to the old wives tales looking for a solution that will allow you to concentrate on something other than your tooth. You even

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-82242442725080035672007-01-08T07:12:00.000-05:002007-01-08T07:17:24.873-05:00

Just waiting for some action outside so that they can start barking, meowing and scratching to go out!

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I thought for sure that 2007 had to be a better year, especially for me with a 06 heart attack. The weather has been glorious as we have yet to see a real snowflake and tomorrow is to be 64. It has made it possible for us to get lots of work done in our cemetery and we are even still getting new grass on graves to grow. Health wise it hasn't been as rosy as today I spent my morning having my

Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07709607787481123251noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9793792.post-57700756822096462792007-01-02T19:52:00.000-05:002007-01-02T19:57:23.405-05:00

My friend T.F.Stern from T F Stern's Rantings left me a comment yesterday on my Jerky posting and I thought I could elaborate on it a bit.T. F. Stern said..."Ted, Just noticed that the piece of furniture is nearly identical to one we have. My folks gave it to us when they sold their Houston house and went to Florida."7:27 PMI decided to include a photo, sans the destroyed goodies, so readers

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The dogs did it again By helping our daughters family enjoy their Christmas presents. It seems that Mikes family sent out some of their presents UPS and they sent them early, I might add. Mike Ellen and Sam live on a corner and the UPS driver delivered them to the back of the house instead of the front and put them on the back steps. He went through the gate to get to the steps. The gate is in

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Our daughter, husband and grandson are out of their house and back with their two big Dogs Boo and Randy. I don't want to make it sound like they got evicted or anything but they had Asbestos Abaters at their house removing the nasty stuff from their old water boiler in preparation of receiving a new one. It was an old H.B.Smith coal boiler. A brief sidelight is in order at this juncture as HB

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My dad thought it was time that my 19 year old butt needed some good education, in the woods, learning to be a man instead of a teenage drunk. I had spend the past year going to Forestry School at the University of Montana in Missoula and had managed to be on academic probation (0.4 on a 5 point system) as I had flunked everything except bowling 1 and 2. I was also on social probation because of

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As I aged I got more and more different jobs. I graduated from rock picker and sticker boy to jobs that changed daily. My first serious construction job came when I was assigned to the concrete crew of the construction company building homes. My first job was to feed the cement mixer. Three gravel, two sand and one cement. We had a large mixer that someone else operated as my job was just to feed

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Now that I need to clean up my eating act a bit[lower cholesterol, eliminate salt, add fiber, loose 100 #'s] I have been paying a bit more attention to food. For instance, I have had a cheeseburger almost every day of my adult life and it is really not good for you. I have noticed that it is really tough to get a hamburger that is less than 1/2 lb. When did that happen? Everything used to be

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Thought I would never be uttering those words. I don't like the term when used referring to kids and absolutely never when referring to pets. We never took our daughter to a "playdate" and my wife and I never had a "playdate" when we were kids. It is this new generation of parents that have coined that phrase and now Websters will want to make a new word out of it, if they haven't already done it

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My father had a sawmill in the Black Hills of SD when I was growing up. The main mill was located in Sturgis and was by far the largest. When I left the mill in 1972, because he had sold it, we were sawing about 100,000 board feet per day plus a railroad car full of chips for making paper. What I first remember is the mill was fairly small probably sawing about 10 to 15,000 feet per day. I was

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When you have a heart attack, everyone is a Dr. It is amazing as to how many people have had similar problems or their spouse, brother/ sister have. All have given me the same advise. Slow down, take it easy, stop stressing over everything, loose weight, exercise and get a hobby. I have a lot of little hobbies but none that I have ever taken serious such as : photography; this blog; painting;

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I can't post because I can't find any editing tools such as inserting a picture. Anyone got any clues with this beta thing. figured it out... go to posts then F5? Don't know why but it works. everything returns

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Think I will start back out with a cat posting. I have got to do some reading to catch up on this super silent Diesel Sub the Chinese have developed because I am sure I will have something to say about that. I have also got some old bicycle stories , a story, with pictures, of my sister-in-law’s latest tattoo, a couple of cop stories and one or two submarine stories. I might even venture back to

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