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2:20 PM A list: Sunshine Yellow leaves Being able to vote New apples Good books Any books Books on tape Elmore Leonard books on tape Friendship Being able to do things A good family Antique dish...

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I’m not going to get my words done this morning. Well maybe if I step on it. That’s a phrase I haven’t heard in a long time. Step on it. Put your foot on it. Step on the gas. Floor it. Put ...

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Finally! Three thirty am so I can get up. Sunday nights are not known for sleep. Weekends screw me up. I need a plan. A better one. Maybe exercise? Who the fuck knows. I was up all day Su...

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This is the second week in a row that I’ve had Friday off. I guess I’m transferred back into my original department where there is less work? Doesn’t matter a lot. Less work means less money b...

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I’m back to where I started eight or so months ago. Except now I’m older and wiser. Here’s hoping. I just wrote my 750 words. I had flow this morning. It was the kind of thing I might write i...

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I’ve taken to reading the bible. Gospel of Mark. I’m using a nice sturdy little paper back I might have gotten from from my brother. It’s the the New International Version which the Evangelic...

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First quote is from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel published in 1937. My paperback copy is heavily marked up. Would be fun to know who read it so carefully before me....

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Deb caught a ball in her taco salad bowl.

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..... over and over again. And it’s almost September 4th! How’d we do that? How are you doing on your decluttering? We were supposed to get rid of one thing on the first, two on the second, t...

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For September I decided to see if I could post something every day. I was thinking it would be nice to put up a fresh picture every day. So.... I went out and took a bunch of pics of Stripey...

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This is a photo of two IC&E SD40-2s laying over in Bethlehem’s River Yard. The Sands casino now illuminates the dormant stacks of Bethlehem Steel. (from [here)](http://www.railpictures.net/v...

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The last few weeks we’ve been having a lot of rain. After a wet spring, a dry summer, looks like a wet fall. Though I generally wish people would stop throwing away summer so early when it is...

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Messenger and other chat type places are funny in that what you type there disappears as soon as you close the window. You can set it to save to a history of your chat but to me that is creepy, ...

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My new car: Quote from Toward the End of Time by John Updike:On Saturday Gloria directed Jeremy and me to dig up the Siberian iris that has flourished on the stony slope behind the two scrawny pe...

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I should go back and see where I left off last time... but that would require closing this window and opening another and that seems like work and I am on vacation - remember? I continue to do n...

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It's Friday morning, about a quarter to eight and I'm home at the kitchen table. Gracie is at the door wanting in. So she can then be at the door wanting out. That's a dog for you. The man ca...

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When I came home today the swarm of bees had moved onto the Pea tree. We've had this happen before but we've never really done anything about them. Eventually they disappear. Today I thou...

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I don't have much in the way of flowers anymore. Various reasons. Lack of time. Lack of interest. Lack of bending over. But a few manage to keep coming back. Here's a few pics: Tue...

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It's a beautiful day but that's not what I'm writing about. I'm writing about my life improvements/resolutions/renunciations, etc. etc. On January 1, 2013, I began writing daily in 750words.com...

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I hear a Bob Seger song. or Volney hill is shorter but steeper. Someone thought this was my picture. or Always a good year for Corvettes. ----- Now you try.

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This obviously isn't my picture. It's from here. And here's a blog with a lot of interesting NYC pics.

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I'm not driving. I'm preparing to be towed. Not too far Just across the driveway and down toward the machine shed where the tractor will be closer to the battery charger. This is my fatheri...

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Writer David McCullough is 81. When he made these 60 Minutes segments he was 79. Both he and Morley Safer, who is now 82 and was then 80, are old men. But watch them. Watch the vitality i...

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Sometimes I feel the need to write something - to put an entry up because the current one is embarrassing for some reason. I generally have more to say on weekends. And more time to say it ...

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