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~~~Chilliness~~~

~~~Chilliness~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s finally here….. The doors are open…the A/C’s off….. …..everything is getting a (much needed) airing….. …..and we’re COLD(ish)…(70 degrees)…and it’s wonderful!….. I’m even celebrating the return of my Raynaud’s Syndrome…(which…as you know…I fondly refer to as my cadaver-fingers)….. …..(Why Are My Fingers White)….. …..(I wonder what it would be like if I still lived up North?)….. I’ve been keeping track of what’s happening in New York State….. Lordy George!………….that’s a lot of…

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~~~Guard Donkey~~~

~~~Guard Donkey~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My last post was about a flock of Black Vultures who took up residency in our goat pasture….. I’m totally cool with them co-habitating with us….. …..I also understand that the world is made up of different creatures…who can only be…what they were meant to be….. …..Vultures…are…Vultures….. They will reliably look like a vulture….. …..and reliably act like a vulture….. I think people make the mistake of trying to expect more from an…

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*****We Need A Donkey*****

*****We Need A Donkey*****

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…..or I’ll willingly take a mule….. ….I’ve been told by a number of old farmers that a mule or a donkey will keep coyotes and wolves away from a herd of goats or cows….. …..I was recently validated while streaming “Yellowstone” the television series (the rancher one…not the park documentary)….. …..and it was even brought up on one of their episodes that an ornery mule will help to safeguard a herd of cattle against wolves….. *****Hey, If Kevin Costner Says…

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Back By Popular Demand…….(maybe)

Back By Popular Demand…….(maybe)

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So apparently……. …..my older daughter told me that my little ditty of a folksong (The Erie Canal)……. …..is not really common knowledge……. …..(I thought everybody knew “Sal” and could sing along)… …..I bet my cousin (Betty Joe Bob) can sing it…….(but then again—she did go through the same public school system that I did in northern Ohio in the ’50’s & ’60’s)… …..hmmmmmmmm……. Soooooooooooooo…….without further ado…….I have copied the lyrics and history of the folksong, “The Erie Canal” for your…

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Bad Playgrounds~~~#3

Bad Playgrounds~~~#3

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    When I mentioned on my last Birthday that I wouldn’t have taken odds I’d ever have made it to sixty-four…………. Here’s one of the reasons… ……………….one of my earlier recollections of a good reason those odds could have been stacked against me………..but, what a great time!!! Here’s the working formula……………. ……………….my faithful friend & cousin—-Betty Joe Bob and our sturdy steeds (the donkeys——Phineas Quigley Tewilliger and Amanda, Phineas’ Mom). Add to that a good splash of boredom, a…

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