Category Archives: Life

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” — Herman Melville, “Moby Dick”

Home Movies

I recently installed a larger capacity hard drive in my computer at home. I went from two 250GB drives to a 1.5TB drive. I also freed up a 1TB external USB drive that I was using for Downloads and general backups.… Read the rest

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RIP Stanley the Cat

Do we cry for the departed, ourselves or the loss of Life itself? Perhaps a bit of each. … Read the rest

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Organize Anything with Pegboard: 11 Ideas and Tips | The Family Handyman

That moment where your brain catches on fire…

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Pegboard is everywhere—panels, hooks, doodads, you name it. Every hand tool in the hardware store ishanging on pegboard. Every bag of bolts, roll of duct tape and tinof Tic Tacs at the checkout counter—pegboarded.

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Genealogy Updates

Calin’s Irish Citizenship paperwork was kicked back. We need to provide a copy of “a gov’t issued photo ID”. Umm? You mean a passport? Yup.
So that is currently in the works as of last Monday.

DNA: Jenny’s brother’s results are back.… Read the rest

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Why I do it.

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Haiku for a Mid-November Morning

Sky grey, morning clouds.
Earth still wet from last night’s storm.
Wind-dancing oak leaves.… Read the rest

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Summer Fun!

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Having fun at A friend’s birthday party.

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Camping

A great black-backed gull fell out of the sky and into the Quinebaug River. There he fought with a fish. The king of the river, a huge great blue heron was not impressed by this interloper. He let out a war cry as he soared down the river and landed on a rock near the thieving gull.… Read the rest

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Bruce R. Carpenter Obituary: View Bruce Carpenter’s Obituary by The Day

Bruce R. Carpenter Obituary: View Bruce Carpenter’s Obituary by The Day.… Read the rest

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Review: Yeats’ Ireland: An Enchanted Vison

Yeats' Ireland: An Enchanted Vison
Yeats’ Ireland: An Enchanted Vison by W.B. Yeats
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

The poetry is quite good, obviously, but the prose surrounding it is, well, stiff and very old world British. Proper to a fault. I am enjoying the selection of paintings and drawings that accompany the work.… Read the rest

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