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Happy Thanksgiving Aunt Jimmie

November 26, 2008

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Not everyone is blessed to have an aunt named Jimmie, and in fact only nine people in the universe have been blessed with my particular Aunt Jimmie. She knows how to have fun better than practically anybody I know, and she can do it on a shoestring. Between her house and mine, we’ve spent a […]

Puzzles

November 21, 2008

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This morning I looked up to see deer looking in at me through the kitchen window.  Great, I thought, I’ll take a picture.  Of course by the time I found the camera they were up on the ridge, frozen in place like little kids who think you won’t see them if they keep absolutely still.  […]

You don’t need a weatherman to tell which way the wind’s blowing

November 19, 2008

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I don’t think about wind much. Where I live, it’s almost always coming out of the west/northwest, and if I want to confirm that, I can send Cowboy out and watch which way his ears flap. No, what I want to know is how cold it is where I’m headed (until about June, when I […]

The Ides of November

November 18, 2008

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In observance of St. Venison’s Day, hunters poured into the Eastport Market over the weekend. They started coming on Thursday, when they cleared out the stock of jerky snacks and peppermint schnapps. On Friday they came back and bought dinner from the deli. On Saturday night they came straggling in to blow smoke about the […]

New roof

November 14, 2008

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There are a lot of tumbledown wooden structures in Antrim County–barns and icehouses and privies and cabins that have long since outlived their usefulness. They tend to molder away gently, becoming more picturesque as time passes. There are a fair number of signs in Antrim County, too, advertising everything from U-Pick peaches to Lakefront Condominiums. […]

A good ol’ joke from DOD

November 14, 2008

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My father, a/k/a Dear Old Dad, posted this joke on our family blog, and I thought you should have it too, no matter how you voted.  It’s an oldie but a goodie, sort of like most of us in Torch Lake Township.  Now here is the reason this joke is pertinent.  I suspect that a lot of […]

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