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If you give a homeowner a dumpster

If you are a parent, you probably have read the children's book, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.

We need to replace a damaged front door, frame and all.  For that purpose we rented a dumpster.  The door was fixed in a few days but we have the dumpster until Monday.

If you give a homeowner a dumpster, it is amazing how much stuff you suddenly feel needs to be expelled from the house.  Stuff you thought you were "storing" for future use.

All the chairs with the broken this and that, the boxes with half used this and that, the pumps that used to work and all of the other stuff that people asked if they could put there, but are no longer around to bring it away.

There is still room in the box and it is only Sunday.  Hmmmm.

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Posted 5 days ago

Tried Ping in January

Some of the drifting famous grazing blogs were given hope by Ping.fm in January. I posted an entry then in the Xanga blog at http://ping.fm/4frro Still trying...

via Ping.fm

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Posted 1 month ago

blogged: http://ping.fm/OQqZN - Ping.FM??

via Ping.fm

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Posted 1 month ago

We have been trying to get xPollinate to send blog entries to Posterous and Vox. Our last try didn't work. Now we're trying to do the same from withing Ping.fm

via Ping.fm

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Posted 1 month ago

The New Theme Means a Lot

When I saw the RSS feed from Posterous introducing the new themes, I went right to it and changed the grazing theme to green
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It makes sense to me.

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Posted 2 months ago

It Still Takes a Few Days

I watched the second plane hit. I remember thinking "what kind of idiot would fly that close to take a look?" I still thought the first strike was an accident. 

Growing up in Manhattan in the '50's I was used to stories of planes hitting the sky scrapers, the Empire State Building, the most infamous of them.  I thought the second plane was coming around for a look when I saw it make the the turn over the harbor.

It took a moment to set in that this was done on purpose.  It wasn't an act I thought possible.  

I soon discovered I had lost friends sent to help and workers trapped on the upper floors.  

My wife and I dined on a regular basis at Cellar in the Sky. We had even taken most of the staff out for drinks after closing.

What bothered me most this year is I didn't see it coming.  When I first wrote the date on an official document, it hit me.  It hit me so hard I had to sit.

I thought about 1949, the same amount of time after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  Did people write 12/7/49 on official paper and suddenly remember Pearl Harbor? Or then, like now, had so much war and mayhem hit them, that one barbaric act lost some of its horror?

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Posted 2 months ago

The Two Email Post Famous Grazing Blogs

Now that we've incorporated IMAP into Opera this could be the opportunity we needed to open up both the Posterous and Vox blogs.

Famous Grazing was originally started to explore all of the methods available to an end-user to post a blog.  

The movie Julie & Julia was a demonstration of how an simple body in 2002 with a message to send can find an outlook outside of the closeted realm of commercial publishing. Today, would she be sending her messages via tweets?  It would not have been the same.  Would there have been a book deal?  I think not.  

Would Julia Child have reacted better? Probably not.

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Posted 2 months ago

Live Writer Connection Wanted!!

Still Trying to get Posterous on Live Writer

You would see more Posterous entries if I could get this on LIVE Writer. 

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Posted 6 months ago

I Can't Believe It!!

Moments after I posted a remark about there being no snow on the ground, I looked up to see it is SNOWING!!!!
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Posted 8 months ago

No Snow on the Ground

This has been some winter.  As the sun rose this morning, I glanced out into the woods and noticed for the first time in months, there is no snow on the ground.  It has been surviving in the darker spots where the density of evergreens keep the wooded floor in the shade. 


That may sound rather minor, especially to our friends in Canada, but when we moved here a decade or two ago, the nearest kin said, and I quote exactly,  "It hardly snows here.  When it does, it doesn't stick."  Of course, the winter following that statement produced one of the nastiest blizzards in history.  True to form, I must say, when the results of the blizzard passed, the rest of the winter was mild.

This winter was different.  There were no major blizzards.  A nasty storm or two, but nothing that really shut us down.  It was the number of storms, followed by bitter-bitter cold that helped preserve the snow on the ground.

This doesn't mean it won't snow again before Spring takes hold.  We had an April Fools Day blizzard not that many years ago.  The winds from that took down the entire eastern fence. I am not tempting nature.  Just commenting on the snapshot my eyes took with the rising sun.

Happy March!!

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Posted 8 months ago