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Sunday, August 15, 2021

THE BENCH

She'd been sitting there, sipping her coffee, breathing in the early morning air and watching the ducks. It was her Saturday morning 'vacation' - an hour's break in the routine. Back at the house she was certain nobody else was up: not Fang, her husband, nor Joey or Bitsy, her first and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 14, 2021

DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS

The aerial highway is again open for business in the habitat of the Backyard Squirrels. While construction crews were in and out of the next house north, and while the Brick Street troop was laying low to the south, spring came and went. The branches grew, sent out twigs and new leaves. The new... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 13, 2021

STORMS LAST NIGHT CAUSED POWER OUTAGES, TREE DAMAGE

The St. Louis region caught a bit of hell from Mother Nature last night. Following a simmering humid few days of intense heat, a crackling thunderstorm led a cooler front in a west-to-east march across Missouri and Illinois, leaving 90,000 without power and some spectacular tree falls. This gave the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 12, 2021

"IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL THE FAT LADY SINGS"

No matter how it started, Covid 19 and its variants have become humankind's deadliest enemy. Like the fireballs from space that took out the dinosaurs millions of years ago, it has launched an all-out attack on life as we know it. A year and a half ago we thought we'd be getting back to normal in a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

OLD BRAIN, NEW TECH --

Some things are so basic we just assume everybody knows them, like turning a computer on or off. As I may have mentioned, technology and upgrades to Windows operating systems left my old Sony desktop behind, so I had to get a new model. It never occurred to me to ask the tech guru at installation... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 10, 2021

DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS

Itchy and White Ears came face-to-face on the aerial highway, each planning a leap, but blocked by the other. There was a brief negotiation about who had the right of way before both turned and made their way back to a neutral branch. The heat and humidity made Itchy's skin condition more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 9, 2021

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM

Mom would have been 115 years old yesterday. Margaret Estella Savage, b. 8-6-1906. She was born on her parents' homestead in Pierre, S.D. the oldest of five children of Lucy Amanda (Edwards) Savage and Bertram Henry Savage. Her grandparents' homestead was adjacent. She described a winter snow when... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 8, 2021

DAYS OF OUR BACKYARD SQUIRRELS

The Brick Street Troop, currently decamped to the park at Leclaire Lake, has begun sending scouts to check out the status of the construction project next door. Yesterday I spotted Trubbles scurrying up the maple tree just south of their prime habitat. The builder and his dog were nowhere to be seen... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 7, 2021

NEW DAY, NEW DELL

Justin from the Geek Squad came yesterday and moved the files from my 10-year-old Sony to a spanking new Dell computer. It seems the old hardware couldn't work with the new version of Windows Office, which needed Windows 10 to operate from. My attempt to load it on my old faithful computer - which... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 6, 2021

REMEMBER THE MOVIE "NETWORK" ?

This was a movie where the most memorable tag line is "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more!" It's been 20 years or so, but that line came back to me as I was browsing through my news feed online. There it was - an article about a new gotcha being sold to the gullible and unwary by... Sign in to see full entry.

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