Author: Don

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    Dear Friends, I hope you had a great Independence Day! As usual I helped to push the Prickly Mountain float in the Warren parade. This year it was a gigantic (and beautiful) 32 ft tall Statue of Liberty that folded down into a giant collapsible box with a “repossessed” label. It was handy that it…

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    It is the last weekend in June and we are in store for some hot weather. I know there will be a lot of float building down at the pond on Prickly Mountain as we prepare for the big 4th of July parade in Warren. You know that I will be getting out on my…

  • A First Look at Mojave

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    I swore I was going to wait for the third developer beta to upgrade my Mac to Mohave but I could not resist. After carefully making sure I had back-ups, I downloaded Mohave. I have just started to play with it but I do want to caution you that, unlike me, you should NOT be…

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    Dear Friends, It has been rainy and cool this week but apparently, there is a heat wave coming our way if you believe our weather rumor mongers, Emily and Art. Emily declared that a bunch of AC units on campers were going to freeze up and Artie trotted out his chat status “The days are…

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    Grace and I are heading to Maine for the weekend to try out our new travel trailer. It will be our maiden voyage, and we’re hoping all goes well as we re-discover camping. We didn’t do much camping once we moved to Vermont as it seemed that no matter where we were living we were…

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    Dear Friends, I got out on the golf course to play with some old (and I mean OLD ;)) friends this week. We were playing in an event for a great organization, the Central Vermont Home, Health and Hospice. I sank a 40-foot put on the first hole and that was the highlight of the…

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    We have had some coolish weather over the past week but this weekend looks like some sunshine so that might help the gardens grow a bit. It also means that I might get out on the Indian for a little ride! Here is a little soapbox, I am not going to be quiet about this.…

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    Dear Friends, Grace and I have been doing a purge of our Prickly Mountain home since we have it up for sale. That means selling or donating our collections of stuff. And I do mean collections; I have boxes of wind-up toys, thousands of CDs and DVDs, hundreds of hippo and chicken chotchskis, and a…

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    I am really looking forward to the new Apple software. I think I will use the walkie-talkie feature of the Apple Watch a lot. Yeah, I know you can text or call but just pushing the “talk” button and being in instant communication is way cool. Grace pretty much has gotten the garden in. We…

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    Dear Friends, I almost hopped into the car and started driving back to Key West when the high temperature here in Vermont was in the 40s this week! I think we will see some return to normal June temperatures by this weekend, but it certainly was an unexpected thrill to search for long sleeved shirts.…