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  • Thursday Throwback – Raise them Right

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    Welcome to 1995 Kalamazoo Michigan. This was my second foray into snow territory to live. Aaron was born in Kalamazoo so early on when there was shoveling to be done he joined in. Later when we moved back to snow country in Wisconsin the rule was if it snowed everyone gets up early and goes out shovel. Aaron throughout middle school and high school was awakened at 5:30 with the rest of and handed a shovel. You know what I don’t miss those days. I don’t miss that kind of snow.

    After living in upstate New York we moved to Charleston South Carolina. We kept our snowshovels not knowing if we’d get transferred back up to where we’d need them. One day the young boy whose grandparents lived on a cul de sac came over while I was in the garage. He was amazed by such a large shovel and our sled. I like living where I have to explain what those are used for and how they are used.

  • Wednesday Words – Musical Mnemonic

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    I enjoy playing instruments. I am lousy at reading music. Show me a note and I’ll struggle to name it. However I can show you its location on the piano, keyboard, claranet, and guitar. but the name… I’ll have to struggle remembering the mnemonics of my early musical education. If the note you showed me is on a line I’ll have to think Every Good Boy Does Fine while counting the lines upward.  Just as Roy helps me remember the rainbow those good boys help we remember the name of notes.

     

  • Tuesday Thoughts – Podcast For This Month’s Listening

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    These three give you plenty to ponder. Two are shows that both ficional and nonfictional.  Black Tapes is a fictional tale that sets itself as real – think Blair Witch style.  Generation Why goes into strange questions looking for information then triest to separate facts from fiction.  Finally the Trial Went Cold is all true, real cases that are cold but deserve answers.

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  • Monday Marginalia – Postcard from the Past

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    I purchased this card because it raised more questions for me than it had answers. Some time I might sit and make a story that has some fictional answers to them.

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  • Freaky Friday – Finding Dulce Base

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    underground by Chris Frewin on Flickr. Who granted use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic posted with photo. Thanks Chris!

    Welcome to 2017 Freaky Fridays. I took a break over the holidays. Now I’m back with tales of an underground base that is uneasily shared between aliens and humans complete with a Hall of Horrors that were gentic testing results between earth life (including humans) and alien life. Apparently at one point the uneasy sharing of this base resulted in a shoot-out fight between aliens and humans. I’d not dived into these but noticed them referenced in fictional works. So I decided it was time to jump down this rabbit hole and see if I could come up with a theory on how this got started. So what did I find?

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  • Thursday Throwback – Cathage Snowman

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    Welcome to 1973 in Carthage New York.  It’s Mike there with his little brother Mike.  Now look at Mike’s face and tell me that Mark’s not going to be crying soon after being hit by a snowball. LOL!  Mark looks like he’s disgusted by the snow.  I know how you feel Mark I was glad to move back south.

  • Wednesday Words – The Real Root of Evil

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    We all know the saying “Money is the root of all evil.” But that’s a famous or should I say infamous misquote of the King James Bible. The real quote is

    For the love of money is the root of all evil. ~1 Timothy 6:10

    Money itself is just a thing it’s what you will do to satisfy your lust for it that can be the evil.

  • Happy Anniversary Mike!

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    Happy Anniversary to my partner in life. I’ve been Mary Louise Eklund over a decade longer than I was Mary Louise Bright. Sure marriage is work in some ways the hardest part for me were the seperations when he had to answer the needs of the Navy. I find every day life with him is so much more comfortable and right than without. I’ve always tried to support him in all his endeavors. I can firmly say he’s always supported me in mine even when he doesn’t understand why or exactly what I’m doing. Then again that’s love isn’t it letting each other be themselves and being stronger when you are together. So here’s to many more years with my better half.

  • Monday Marginalia – HUH? What did you say?

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  • Thursday Throwback – My First Flight

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    Welcome to 1967.  That’s my mom and me getting ready to  go on a flight.  Please note a few things…

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