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Daily Archives: April 19th, 2008

Spring arriving

Saturday, April 19, 2008

We have a little artificial pond in our yard, in which both fish and one or more frogs manage to survive. This is an amazing thing, particularly because we do almost nothing to maintain it, except to make sure the pump and filter are working, and that it doesn’t freeze in the winter. Each year […]

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Tense times

Saturday, April 19, 2008

For the last several weeks I have been informed by WordPress, whenever I log in, that a new and improved update was available. It was not available for easy install at my web hosting service, and I was reluctant in the extreme to try installing it myself. It is a major upgrade with one feature […]

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Groton Democrat to display art in Old Lyme. Other artists to appear too

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Next week, the Lyme-Old Lyme Junior Women’s Club holds its annual Art Show at the Old Lyme Art Association. The details are on the flyer reproduced below. The money goes to good causes, and the art is always very good. There will be lots of artists there, but only one of them lives down the […]

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I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!

Saturday, April 19, 2008

If Will Rogers needed confirmation of his point of view, he need only have looked at the 2008 Democratic 18th Senatorial District State Central Convention, to which I had the dubious honor of being a delegate. Actually, the convention went fine. I played a sterling role, being firstest with the mostest when it came to […]

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