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  • Papa gets a new camera

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    This picture of the moon sent my heart racing as I looked at the camera and couldn't be happier. Got the camera with a 18-55mm zoom; a 75-300 lens; A tripod; backpack camera case; extra SD memory chips and a special one to use for movies. In case I didn't [...]
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    Posted: September 11, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
    by Ted

  • TEST

    Blog isn't keeping my posted photoes so I am trying different things' [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 11:45am EDT
    by Ted

  • Papa wants a new camera!

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    This was my graduation present, from my parents, upon getting a High School Diploma. I was thrilled, not about the Diploma but about the camera as it was a single lens reflex and a Pentax H1. I was very involved in photograph from about the age of 10 when I [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 10:50am EDT
    by Ted

  • Really getting old

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    As I write this posting I am 66 years old, which means that I have been on Medicare over one year and officially retired as I am soon to receive my first retirement check from the US Government. In this past year I have joined Kiwanis and joined Facebook. My [...]
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    Posted: June 27, 2009, 6:51pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Stanley Park - pre-spring visit

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    Stanley Park..../early spring visitMy Daughter, Grandson and I took one our nicer mornings off and headed to Stanley Park in Westfield. Sam was app pumped up about the Ducks in the park and had read a bunch about them and the Geese on line. The Park isn't completely open yet' [...]
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    Posted: March 14, 2009, 9:06pm EDT
    by Ted

  • In a Perfect World

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    This is one of the best Political Cartoons that I have seen in a long time. I like political cartoons and I look at a lot of them. Some really make me laugh, as this one has, and makes me want to share it. Very rarely can I find someone [...]
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    Posted: March 03, 2009, 6:34pm EST
    by Ted

  • Securities and Exchange Commission

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    WARNING another political postingJust a reminder to not let your guard down, to keep paying attention. WE did, we let the ball drop; my generation did that. My fathers generation were the recepients of the last Depression and it scared them really bad, so much so that many still won't' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2008, 11:11am EDT
    by Ted

  • Depression, recession or ?

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    WARNING: Another Political postingAs I write this it appears that the Republicans and Democrats are close to a compromise on the bailout plan. Its called a bailout plan because it is bailing out wall street. I'm not for that but whatever it takes to keep this country out of a' [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 3:06pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Baby Boomer Panic

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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 12:07pm EDT
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  • Fair Play

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    WARNING: Political postingInformation in this article was heavily borrowed from articles in our paper by The Associated Press reported by Lolita C Baldor about the Generals and Rachel Beck and Ellen Simon for the CEO story. Thank you ladies.I am going to put up a political posting but I am [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2008, 10:26am EDT
    by Ted

  • Sunflower Barn

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    GG sent me this photo of a Tobacco Barn. Barns are great background for any type of outdoor photo. Thanks GG [...]
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    Posted: September 13, 2008, 2:08pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Update on tobacco

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    A few weeks ago I put up a lovely posting on shade tobacco grown in the Connecticut Valley. The only picture of the tobacco leaves I had were none. Today I was driving by the barns of one of our local tobacco growers and lo and behold there was the [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2008, 3:52pm EDT
    by Ted

  • What's in a chair?

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    So what is so big about a stupid chair anyway? Well to start with it's my chair. I like it because its comfortable. It's stationed in our small garden at the end of our driveway and it is attached to the house. It is ripped and torn and soon it's' [...]
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    Posted: August 30, 2008, 7:57pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Opting Out

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    It seems that we are on way to many special mailing lists Today we received a wedding announcement in the mail telling us that the young couple had recently been married and it requested that no gifts be sent but prepaid MasterCard and Visa gift cards would be acceptable. A [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2008, 8:39pm EDT
    by Ted

  • It's Hydrangea Time Again

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    Saying "It's Hydrangea time again" is a harbrindger to New England's most beautiful season, Fall. Our temperature this morning was 45 degrees. We do have a few tree turning but the full leaf tree experience is a while away, meantime we should enjoy Hydrangea Time. Our cemetery is bursting at [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2008, 11:07pm EDT
    by Ted

  • 2008 Olympics

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    2008 OlympicsThe 2008 Olympics are now over. Hooray! Now I can get back to watching the Red Sox and Cops on the tube again. Not really. We thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics and I have found a new love for Volleyball which was invented in Holyoke MA now home to the [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2008, 7:44am EDT
    by Ted

  • Big Trouble

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    These are really two cute little dogs just minding their own business. Molly is on the left and Bridget is on the right. Breaking away from play long enough to eat and pose for a picture. I think they look too innocent and as I looked at their bowls, I [...]
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    Posted: August 22, 2008, 8:32pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Shade Tobacco

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    One of the interesting sights as you travel about the back roads of our Connecticut Valley is the sight of acres and acres of white tents. These tents shade the valuable Shade Tobacco Crop. The Connecticut Valley is a major source of some of the world's finest wrapper leaves. This [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2008, 3:00pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Pink Roses

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    These are photo's of some pink Roses that we removed a few years ago at a grave in the cemetery. We don't allow them on the graves because people tend to not take care of them and just let them go wild. They get very tall, after a while and [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2008, 6:52pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Here's looking at you

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    Boo-Ellen, Michael and SamsBlack Lab! This is their computer wallpaperMolly on left and Bridget on Right. Our Dogs Howling. Maggee, Easthampton. GG's dog. This is the wallpaper on my outlook express. 1st thing I see every morning when I turn on my computer. Love It!Ellen's garden frog. Can you tell [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2008, 7:50pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Green Pool?

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    My daughter is a firm believer in a “Green World” and works very hard practicing what she preaches. She has got her family trained very well in the art of conserving and they all work equally hard at it. Trash recycling day is a big one at their house as [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 9:32pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Water, water everwhere...

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    This is a late afternoon cloud photo, over our cemetery, I took a couple of days ago and it turned out to be a major producer of a couple of inches of rain. Our Western Mass area has been inundated with all sorts of storms lately. We are just coming [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2008, 9:45am EDT
    by Ted

  • Bathroom odor prevention

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    We went for supper last evening at our daughter’s home and out of desperation I asked her “what can I blog about?” in fact I asked her several times as I was experiencing the dreaded “Blogger’s Block” and needed help.. She walked up and said “blog about this” as she [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2008, 7:20am EDT
    by Ted

  • What a Croc!

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    What a Croc!And that is what these are….”CROCS” This all started out because my daughter Ellen send me an email with a web site called I Hate crocs dot com. And I took a look. I didn’t even know that I hated Crocs but there it was right in front [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2008, 12:09pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Putting puppies to sleep

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    This is how you get your puppies to sleep. I really couldn't believe this video when my wife sent it to me. Wish I could get our two puppies to mind so well. think I will try singing to them when they start tearing around and we want to sleep. [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2008, 8:35pm EDT
    by Ted

  • pellet stove

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    With skyrocketing oil prices, the cost of heating homes is jumping off the charts. The Department of Energy expects heating bills to be 27 percent higher this winter for people who heat with oil and 41 percent higher for those who heat with natural gas. In cold-winter climates, this number [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 12:40pm EDT
    by Ted

  • More Lilies

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    These are all cemetery Lilies [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 10:12am EDT
    by Ted

  • Lilies of Easthampton

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    These are Lilies sent to me by GG of Easthampton. A bit of a Lily herself. This last one is a bit of a cranky Lily called Magee of Easthampton. My favorite. Thanks for the Pics GG! [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2008, 9:56am EDT
    by Ted

  • Batman

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    So who is this? It's the new Batman of course, Terry McGinnis (Batman II, The Tomorrow Knight). This guy has actually been around over in Europe, for the past 8 years, fighting evil. Maybe your more of a "now" movie buff and will want to remember Batman as looking like' [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2008, 10:54am EDT
    by Ted

  • Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival

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    Glascow Lands Scottish FestivalThis is the opening ceremony of the Glasgow Lands Scottish Festival that is held in Florence/Northampton MA every year about this time and the time for it was this past Saturday. We all jumped in the family van and headed North for this one. 1st of all [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2008, 12:24pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Yellow Lily

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    Sometimes the photo op's jump right out at you. This is from our friend GG's side yard where we were visiting this morning. She has about 10 plants and all equally beautiful. [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2008, 5:54pm EDT
    by Ted

  • More Medicare

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    Ahh, Medicare what a trip. Got an email from them giving me my new secret codes that will allow me to enter and navigate through “My Medicare . gov. The also sent me, the wildly popular pdfs, “My Medicare.gov Quick Reference guide” and the equally popular “Dashboard Reference”. They also [...]
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    Posted: July 18, 2008, 3:52pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Road Trip

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    My son-in-law was in need of a cap for his short bed pickup but they needed to haul their two big dogs around such as taking them to the dog park and to the river for a swim. They just got rid of their Jeep, which worked good for hauling [...]
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    Posted: July 17, 2008, 9:50pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Rescue Dog

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    This past weekend our Grandson Sam, daughter, son-in-law, Boo [Black Lab] and Randy [Golden Doodle] all headed over to a favorite Dog Park in Connecticut. After some intense playtime they took the dogs around back, where there is a river, so that the dogs can swim. Really it is only [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2008, 1:47pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Fenway Franks

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    Saturday Sam, his Mom and Step Dad all took a bus to Fenway park and got to watch the Red Sox trounce the Orioles 12 to 1 and took the division lead at the break. They got to watch 4 homeruns and one of them be a Grand Slam. Best [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2008, 10:48pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Red Roses

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    Beautiful roses from our "Most Prolific" rose garden [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2008, 8:43am EDT
    by Ted

  • Medicare trials

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    I am now and truly an “Old Man”. Today I signed up for Medicare! What an experience that has been. Naturally I procrastinated it and refused to read anything about it until these past few days. My birthday is in June and apparently I was supposed to do all of [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2008, 3:30pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Blonds

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    Two blonds were in a parking lot trying to unlock the door of their Mercedes with a coat hanger. They tried and tried to get the door open, but they couldn't. The girl with the coat hanger stopped for a moment to catch her breath, and her friend said anxiously, [...]
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    Posted: July 11, 2008, 1:34pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Opting Out

    It seems that we are on way to many special mailing lists Today we received a wedding announcement in the mail telling us that the young couple had recently been married and it requested that no gifts be sent but prepaid MasterCard and Visa gift cards would be acceptable. A [...]
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    Posted: June 21, 2008, 4:24pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Boo at his best

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    That is a picture of a full grown Black Lab, named Boo, that lives at my daughters, my son-in-laws and grandsons home. A Black Lab with a sweet tooth. Sure glad it lives there and not here! [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 7:28am EDT
    by Ted

  • School security

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    Each morning, the students swipe their ID tags as they climb onto the school bus. A radio frequency tag tracks them, as it does when they arrive at school and as they leave the building. Cameras watch them all day. Every visitor — parents, volunteers, the guy who fills the Coke [...]
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    Posted: April 18, 2008, 4:48pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Ahhh Spring, finally

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    What is it that tells you that Spring is really here? How about some 66 degree temperatures? Being able to leave your coat at home when you go for a walk? We all have a different trigger to signify a change in seasons and for me it is going to [...]
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    Posted: April 11, 2008, 7:50am EDT
    by Ted

  • On Site Computer Repairs

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    Yesterday I started my computer and as it started up, the screen turned black and that was all that there was. My heart stopped! How can that possible be? I turned it off and restarted and as it came up the screen went black again and there was no more. [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2008, 6:09pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Pine Hill Cemetery . Com

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    We are now on line with our own web site at http://pinehillcemetery.com/ . I am building the site and it has been a real challenge. During the past several weeks I have been having all sorts of problems with my computer with a little problem called locking up and shutting [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2008, 9:02pm EDT
    by Ted

  • My daughter is very good at keeping ...

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    My daughter is very good at keeping her marriage alive and exciting. Her latest was to mess with her husband Mike's hair. Ellen cuts Mike's hair and does a pretty good job at it except that for the past three haircuts she left part of it uncut. She wanted to [...]
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    Posted: March 22, 2008, 7:59pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Knee Surgery

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    Monday my wife had the cartilage removed from her knee and is now recovering quiet well I might add. She is getting along with the aid of a cane that her grandfather used and it is over 100 years old. Neat! Before I tell you her experience I shall bore [...]
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    Posted: March 16, 2008, 5:16pm EDT
    by Ted

  • Pet Peeve Day

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    Today is the day that I have chosen to share with you some of my very insignificant pet peeves. The first one is "fast food liter". We live next to an intersection that is fairly busy. The first thing in the morning we get a large rush of folks heading [...]
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    Posted: March 04, 2008, 5:44pm EST
    by Ted

  • Molly

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    How can you not love a face like this... This is Molly, a 10 week old, minature, red daple daschund that my wife just purchased for us. My wife didn't think our lives were complicated enough so she went out and bought a new dog. My daughter must share the blame [...]
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    Posted: February 20, 2008, 5:41pm EST
    by Ted

  • Project Update

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    You deserve an update on the New Floor Blog. Sunday we went back to Lowes and purchased paint but the crutches did not work very well for my Wife so she used one of the motorized carts that are available. I went to the paint counter, with my paint chip [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2008, 4:27pm EST
    by Ted

  • Just a new floor

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    We have decided to replace our kitchen floor and the job is going to be way tougher than it looks. I have 40 years experience to back up that statement, so we shall see. As a bit of a primer you will remember that my wife is the Superintendent of [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2008, 8:03pm EST
    by Ted
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