Today is Thanksgiving, a day we celebrate the first and oldest annual holiday tradition in (what would become) the United States of America. As you probably already know, it is the 1st year celebration of harvest after the Mayflower ship landed in Plymouth rock in 1620.   But what I didn’t know until recently is that […]

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Our stacked washer and dryer is old.  It came with the house.  But it has worked just fine for many years.  Until around Halloween it decided to give up the ghost.  A shoe got stuck between the dryer blade and the side of the dryer, and as it grinded to a halt it burnt out […]

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Dogs were barking like crazy.  Why?  Because another opossum had wandered into the yard.  This is a fairly common occurrence around here.  So I picked him up and put him out of reach of the dogs.  He immediately played dead.   As always, I rehomed Mr. Opossum to Woodland Park near our house.  It is on […]

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After 7 years of living with us, Jose Francisco decides to move to Florida.  He got a job through a friend of a family of a friend (as latinos so often do), and packed his car and … took off… well, sort of took off.  I drove him in his car.  He was concerned about […]

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