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Another Working Vacation, the County Fair and the Summer Olympics
My two weeks of another working summer vacation at home is coming to a close. As usual it was selected to coincide with the yearly Dakota County Fair, but this year happened to also overlap with much...
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Photo Links Fixed, Some Small Projects, and a Newly Re-Paved Road
I finally got around to fixing the photo links that had been broken in the process of restoring my weblogs after I found my server had been hacked. Although blogging software can be used to create...
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A Missing Dog Story and More Barn Vermin
It’s been ages since I last wrote here, and as usual it’s not because there’s nothing going on; just nothing notable enough to write about. I was prompted to write about an odd occurrence one of our...
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Autumn Arrives and a War on Mice
Warmer weather has come and gone and it would seem that fall arrived abruptly. I wish I could say the lack of any updates here was because I was just too busy to write one, but that’s not the case....
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Mouse War Over and Some Fall Projects
As usual for this time of year, we’re rushing to finish up projects before it gets too cold and/or before the snow starts falling. Thus, I’ve either been too busy, or just too tired from working on...
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Goodbye, Cleo
We said goodbye to our Standard Poodle, Cleo (Cleopatra) tonight. She was euthanized at home with Kim, Basil and me by her side. Her health was failing and this spring she got sick and a visit to...
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Brokenhearted
We’re still suffering the painful loss of our Standard Poodle, Cleo. Although letting our other dog, Gabrielle (Elle), go a few years ago was hard, saying goodbye to Cleo has been even harder. I...
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Last Pre-Winter Projects and Missing Cleo
I’ve been finding it hard to sit down and write because my thoughts keep coming back to our Standard Poodle, Cleo. As it always does, time is easing our pain. And although I’m not trying to forget...
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Cell Phones, Spam and Fool Me for the Upteenth Time
This summer I switched cell phone carriers to a T-Mobile prepaid account. I started out with a cheap phone and a new phone number just to test the service and eventually ended up buying a Google...
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Burned Out on Computers, Last Second Projects and Winter Arrives
I’ve had more reticence than usual to update the blog, because I’ve frankly been computed out. That’s because the last few months I’ve been working on an involved computer project. (Warning geek alert...
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Winter Slowdown, Flooring, Siding, Snowblower Repairs, and a Mini Thaw
The other day, Rob not so subtly mentioned that it had been several weeks since I updated my blog. As previously noted, the primary purpose of my blog has been a personal documentation of our many...
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Catastrophes of the Cold
So far this winter has been alternating between periods of unseasonably warm and unseasonably cold. A few weeks ago it was above freezing and rained, but then it plunged into the minus temperatures...
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Sick of Winter and A Broken Septic System
I don’t know that this winter has been any worse than previous winters (it’s certainly worse than our mild winter last year), but I’m sick of winter for this year and ready for spring. It seems like...
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A Crappy Winter Continues
It’s been quite a while since my last entry here, and I have to admit feeling a bit burned out on blogging in general. The crappy winter we’ve had lingers on (in spite of what the rodent said). At...
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Once again it’s been quite a while since my last update, and I figured I’d best write something to make sure those who read from afar don’t think I froze to death (or got abducted by aliens or...
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The Winter That Wouldn’t End
This year winter just won’t end. Every time it looks like we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, we find out it’s just another train coming. We’re still stuck well below average high...
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A Taste of Spring
We finally got our first taste of spring last week! The daily high temperatures went from 50 one day to almost 70 the next day; followed by a string of 70+ degree days. It was a welcome change to our...
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A Rollercoaster Weather Ride
I’m completely fed up with Minnesota weather this year. The last five days of April high temperatures reached 69 degrees or higher. Many believed that spring had finally arrived. Things were drying...
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Has Spring Arrived?
I hesitate to say it, but I think spring has finally arrived. Our last snowfall came less than two weeks ago though (on May 3rd), and that was preceded by almost a week of warm (around 70 degree)...
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More Bad Weather, Tree Removal and Retirement Thoughts
In spite of the fact that I had a week off from work at the end of last month I didn’t get a chance to and/or feel inclined to do any blogging. Spring is normally a great time to be outside working:...
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