Today, my friend Debbie and I went to the Randy Becken Farm Stand to buy some of their luscious produce. This farm stand is located on Upper Mountain Road in Sanborn, New York, and this was my first visit. What a delightful place! I hope that it won’t be my last visit. So, I am […]
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part four Last time, I had said that I would post one more installment in this tale, but, since then, I changed my mind. I decided to break this into two parts, just because a blog post with ten images could be a bit long and unwieldy. So, for this installment, I have six drawings,
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So… I know that pumpkinations isn’t actually a word, but I decided to do a Lewis Carroll sort of thing and invent a word. Some of the words that Lewis Carroll invented include: chortle, frabjous, frumious, bandersnatch, snark, boojum, galumph, mimsy. They are fun words, as well as being funny. I wonder which of them
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Today, I went to two different events to take pictures for the newspaper. The two events were the Holiday Happenings at the Golden Age Center and Trunk or Treat at the library. The Golden Age Center is a place where senior citizens can go to have lunch and enjoy such activities as French class, exercise
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Part two Prompts for day eight through fourteen of Inktober are: reckless, heavy, sweep, sting, shredded, drink, and trunk. Where the story left off: Wolf gave his mother a special pair of earrings, which startled her, but he didn’t know why. She didn’t speak about her nonreaction. After that, Wolf talked to his mother about
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What could be better than getting ready for my favorite holiday? It’s all about bright colors and fun. It’s about apples and winter squash and celebrating autumn, as well as getting to be any character you want to be. The only down side to Halloween is that it can be really cold and, as someone
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Last Friday, I went to St. Timothy Lutheran Church to paint wooden ornaments. These ornaments were made by Paul, a local wood carver, and they will be sold at the Erie County Fair. All proceeds from the sale of the ornaments will go to the Make a Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to children with
On Wednesday, I went to an event that I thought would be a simple photo op of the unveiling of a kiosk devoted to helping veterans find whatever information they need. The location was the Welcome Center in Grand Island, New York. The kiosks are provided by the New York State Department of Veterans’ Services.
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Happy Food Friday! Today it’s all about rhubarb! Rhubarb is a plant with an identity crisis. It doesn’t know whether it’s a vegetable or a fruit. It looks like a vegetable, but it has the yummy sour flavor of a fruit. This confused plant is available in the spring, and, when I bought it at
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Recently, I’ve been having all sorts of kitchen fun, so I thought that I would add a new feature to this blog and title it “Food Fridays.” It will appear anytime I have purchased something really cool at the nearby farm or at various farmers markets. And the really cool thing that I am featuring
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