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4th of July visitors–two legged, four-legged and feathered . . .

WE GET A LOT of visitors around the holidays, especially the summer ones, like the 4th of July, but they rarely show up at the same time–especially the furry and feathered kind, so we laid out a feast for all … Continue reading

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Life without the little Screw-Thingy is wet and dangerous . . .

DESPITE THE FACT that I lost the little screw-thingy necessary to fasten the planks to the bridge substructure, Chap pressed ahead, and, after he’d attached all the planks, he decided to shore up the underpinning with big giant rocks, which … Continue reading

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Deer in the river, fox in the cat dish-dang it's hot!

News Flash: It’s Hot. It’s going to stay hot. And we’re on track to break heat related records–days topping record heat and Wednesday, we’re going to break a record for how many days over 100-degrees in one summer. The record … Continue reading

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Pecked to death by a duck

TWO OF THE five boys who live across the river paddled their canoe over to ask me if they could “take my dog”—these are the same kids that caused me to have to swim over to retrieve my border collie … Continue reading

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