Author: Don

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    Grace and I are getting ready for our annual 4th of July party. Got to get the strawberries for the daiquiris which is my role. Running dual blenders almost non-stop. The Warren, VT Independence Day parade is an amazing event as tens of thousands descend upon our small town for the annual celebration. I’ll be…

  • Playing with Cars

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    Luke, Emily’s husband, came into the office and said “what’s up with Don – traded his Infiniti for a CHEVY?”. Well, yes I did. I picked up a new Chevy Volt this week. I wanted better gas mileage than the Infiniti hybrid so set the bar at 40mpg. Then again I am fascinated by electric…

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    Dear Friends, I am very sad to report the passing of my companion for the past 12 years. This week we said goodbye to Hammerhead. He was truly a love-mirror and I loved him so. He was seldom more than a couple feet from my side and liked to “ham” it up. He was a…

  • macOS Sierra

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    I used to live in the foothills of the Sierras in a little town called Challenge. We rented what was an old stage coach stop right in the hills that were part of the gold rush of the nineteenth century. Did you know that the nickname for Californians – the 49ers – came from the…

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    My granddaughter, Khadija, is bringing some of her friends over for a sleep-out tonight. There have been a lot of reports of bears in the neighborhood (but I won’t mention that…or will I?) and the other night I was driving home and a huge moose meandered across the road. Some nights I like to sit…

  • Watch This

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    I am really surprised that I have taken to the Apple Watch so completely. It is not that I use it as a fitness device although I DO have goals…that I seldom meet. But, I wear it every day even though it was over 50 years since I regularly wore a watch. Q: So, what…

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    _Dear Friends_, Hey, guess what? I am a Cubs fan and I have been for my entire life. When I was a very young child my family lived in Wrigleyville near the Cubs stadium. My mom would take my brother and I to games, especially on “Ladies’ Day” and we would wander around the field…

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    I am heading over to Laconia, NH to check out bike week and with excellent weather in store, I think we may just have to do a little exploring on motorcycles. Strawberries are about to come in season with pick your own places crawling with stooped over folks picking the delicious early summer berries. I’ve…

  • macOS Sierra

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    I used to live in the foothills of the Sierras in a little town called Challenge. We rented what was an old stage coach stop right in the hills that were part of the gold rush of the nineteenth century. Did you know that the nickname for Californians – the 49ers – came from the…

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    Dear Friends, Our hearts and souls mourn with the families of the victims of the senseless tragedy at the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Hate crimes always make me concerned about the future of the human race. Whether it is madmen slaughtering innocents with assault rifles, the genocide of the Yizidis at the hands of ISIL,…