Here we are, 2017!  Who would have thunk it? Way back in 1967 even the year of 2000 seemed like an unimaginable number. Do we even remember what the year of 2000 was like? The only significant fact of that year was that the Russians were the only ones in 1999 who could not afford […]

1946* stands out in my mind for a couple of reasons.  First, it was the year that my father, mother and I moved into the historic Haynes house.   My father, along with my grandmother, grandfather and his sister Peggy, had moved into it in 1917.  My father was 9 years old at the time, and […]

Flashback to one of Pat’s earlier columns – Is it just me or does everyone have bad luck with so called “Miracle” products? Erma Bombeck once wrote that the grass is always greener, over the septic tank.  I find the opposite to be true.  We have a large septic field and, because of the depth […]

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