Thorns amidst the berries, roses amongst the thorns

December 8, 2009

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As we slide toward the darkest time of the year, we look for reasons to hope. We always find them, blessings mixed in with the thorns of Advisory! Winter storm warning! If the morning walk is a bit nippy, we notice little things we hadn’t seen before. The Cowboy notices deer tracks leading into the […]

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Coming home along Elk Lake Road

December 7, 2009

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Babs Young was away for Thanksgiving, but she thought of you all the way home.  She needed a photo.  And there, along Elk Lake Road, she found one.  She writes: What a difference a week or two makes. We left and it was still sunny and rather warm and came home to winter. Nice white […]

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Warning to businesses

December 6, 2009

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Telemarketers have been scamming local businesses that accept credit cards, particularly Discover cards.  The operation does NOT require that anyone at the business give out an account number.  That information is already available to the thieves.  What they need is someone to say “Yes” in answer to a question.  Then payments for non-existent goods and […]

Posted in: In Business in Torch Lake

Postcards from Chris and Sonny

December 4, 2009

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Chris and Sonny Szejbach have been lounging on the beach in Florida.  Yesterday Chris wrote:  I understand it is snowing at home.  We had a storm last nite and the rocket launch was postponed to tonite.  Hope to get pictures.  We see these cruise ships come into port daily, thought I’d share. OK, I thought. […]

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OK it’s snowing. Happy?

December 3, 2009

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Dale Reedy, my plow guy (and artist in wood, but that’s another post) has been doing snow-dances for a month.  Every time he sees me he slaps an evil grin on his face and reminds me that soon, soon he will be plowing out my drive and sending me enormous bills.  “Ha!” I say.  “There […]

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Fred, the Greatest Dog in the World, died Monday and we are grieving

December 2, 2009

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Fred, my elder grand-dog, was the Greatest Dog in the World. I know you probably think that to me Miss Sadie and the Cowboy might be greater. If you have known me a long time, you would be certain that Jake my Boon Companion was greater. But you would be wrong. Fred was a large […]

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Freedom: Verse I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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