Author: Don
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Dear Friends, I think I may have waited just a bit too long to head south as I woke up this morning to a nice blanket of snow and temperatures in the teens. As I let Jezebel out for her morning relief she took a couple of tentative steps onto the snow and then jumped…
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We are pretty much ready for our annual migration, like the snowbirds we are. I winterized the camper, put gas stabilizer in all the gas engines, put my little Austin Healey Sprite away and just have to button up the motorcycle. It seems every year that our schedules get compacted just before we leave. We…
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Do Not Disturb Me, Wait..Disturb Me
I love the Do Not Disturb feature in iOS—it’s really handy for keeping notifications from waking me up at night or causing embarrassing light and noise in a dark movie theater. This has been a problem because when Do Not Disturb is turned on manually for a movie or doctor’s appointment, one had to remember…
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Dear Friends, Wild weather here and even wilder down south with the huge damage from Hurricane Michael. I know the president says this is all a hoax and he’ll have to figure out who wrote the UN climate report that says we have only 12 years before irreversible damage is done to our planet, but…
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The autumn colors here are really brilliant now. I took my drone out last night to take some pictures of the fall foliage from above. I think I will have to ride down to Quechee Gorge this weekend to fly it down the gorge for some pics. Speaking of Autumn, my daughter and her husband,…
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Getting Started with Apple Pay
I love using Apple Pay to pay for stuff in stores or online, to send money in Messages and to pay for subway rides and gasoline. With Apple Watch it feels like magic, and people are still amazed when I just wave my wrist in Starbucks or at the subway. As I talk to customers…
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Dear Friends, Grace and I had a great trip to Chicago to watch a couple of Cubs games. Unfortunately, the Cubbies forgot how to hit the ball, so after leading the division for weeks, they choked and ended up losing both the tie-breaker against Milwaukee and the Wild Card game versus the Rockies. You can’t…
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Grace and I are taking our annual pilgrimage to the friendly confines of Wrigley Field in Chicago to catch a couple of the last games of the regular season as the Cubs take on their arch-rival St. Louis Cardinals. The Cubbies are jockeying for position to win their division although they have clinched a play-off…
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Dear Friends, My original plan was to tow our camper down to Key West when we make our annual migration but, as usual, my clear-thinking wife convinced me that we would probably not use it down there, that it would cost a bunch of money to haul it in extra gas and tolls and we…
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We had our brief Indian Summer but today feels more fall-like. Grace made me go out and see a spectacular sunset the other night, and I launched my drone to capture the photo that is in the intro. I am going to use my DJI flying camera (Spark) to take some more fall foliage shots…