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Happy New Year in the Acres
Since this is a relatively new blog, I don’t have a lot to share in terms of New Years content. In my family we didn’t spend a lot of time with resolutions for the New Year, because generally we didn’t spend a lot of time making good on them, and like most people, if we
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Christmas in the Acres
That there is the family home, circa I’d say about 1975. Dad had gotten a printed set of pictures from someplace, I’m thinking either Caldor or the local AGWAY and went to the lumberyard to get plywood to glue them on, and then cut them out with a jigsaw. Lots of curves on there, but
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Summer Is For Fun
Summertime is traditionally a time for families to go on vacation. That was definitely true for my family while my brother and I were growing up. My family was considered middle class, my Dad worked for IBM, and my Mom was a housewife, though when she and Dad met, they were both working for IBM,
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An unusual birthday
I was just discharged from the hospital for the second time in 3 weeks on my birthday. I hadn’t been expecting to be in the hospital again at all, though I guess one might suggest I had a hint the previous Monday when I had to go to the ER with a rather nasty UTI.
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Origins
Or, where ya came from. For me, this is going back more than a few years. This is the house that I grew up in located in the Hudson Valley of New York. It was built on an old farm, so old that I’ve never been able to find anyone that could tell me about
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