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The Mower the Merrier

There’s nothing like an obsession that’s been satisfied. Yesterday was sunny and bright after two days of dark and dreary and lo and behold, the grass was actually tall enough for the first mowing.
Ain’t life just grand though?
And so it was that I happily tossed the gas can into the back of my old Jeep [...]

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I Just Gotta Mow!

Oh man, I just can’t stand it! With all this unusually gorgeous weather we’re having around here I have this god awful desire to mow the lawn!! I just gotta  mow the damn lawn!!
Okay… alright, I can handle this now. The grass isn’t up yet…it still thinks it’s…well…April fer heavens sake and April in the [...]

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Feels Like April in Virginia in Vermont

Good God, it’s 80 degrees out according to my weather sticker in the sidebar or it was when I began writing this post and I have to agree with that. I just came in from working out in the yard with Laurie’s youngest son, Kenny (he and his family live upstairs) and by the time [...]

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And You Think You Have Snow?

Washington State Department of Transportation
In this photo released by the Washington State Department of Transportation, a large plow tries to clear the snow after an avalanche fell from the east on Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Periodic heavy snow began falling in Eastern Washington and northern Idaho over the weekend, [...]

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Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part II

Required reading: Tags and Categories-Tagged Again! Part I
Many thanks to Grandad. This absolutely horrendous, disjointed post is all his fault but he’ll probably blame it on K8.
And here we go….
I seem to be getting older these days. Not only am I getting older but it seems to be becoming a habit, a perpetual thing if [...]

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Snow?

Looking at my sidebar I see the current conditions is light snow and 37 degrees. Looks like October is finally starting to act like October. About a half a month late but it got here nonetheless.
Heck, and I thought with all this global warming and all that I’d be in the hammock right up through [...]

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Blog Action Day: It’s Our Children’s World.

I wrote the original version of this post back in July of this year and try as I might I couldn’t come up with something that said the message I was trying to get across better than that post did. Now, with the fabled Northwest Passage open for the first time, what I was trying [...]

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Site Problems…It’s Gotta be Global Warming!

This is it! This is the answer to all my site problems over the last three days!
Global Warming!
And this is my host’s solution for cooling down the overheated servers!
Why didn’t I suspect something like this earlier? Luckily for me a friend of mine who works there saw what was going on as they were headed out for [...]

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