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Best Glass Cleaner. Period. And How to Stop Cardinals From Dive Bombing Your Windows

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I’m going to be a fountain of useful information today and provide you with two invaluable tips.

I’m on a mad cleaning tear. Happens every few years. Clutter accumulates until I can’t stand it anymore, and then I go on an extreme purge. What doesn’t get thrown out or given away gets a good cleaning and/or properly put away. Which also means every window in the house gets washed inside and out. (I know many people have the time to … Read More

Best “People Training” Book

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People who love their dogs are used to reading dog training books to help their dogs achieve their full potential, so they may live with their family in the most enjoyable way for all parties concerned. And I’ve recommended many of those books over the years, as I’ve discovered new favorite ones.

Leadership and Self DeceptionI had a friend turn me on to what I would describe as one of the more enlightening “people training” books I’ve read in a long time. While … Read More

My Primary News Source

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no news is good newsIf you pay attention to the news, it seems we are living in crazy times. Even though I try to remind myself that’s not entirely true–it’s just that “crazy” sells and the media is buying. I do my best to do my own ferreting out to find the truth, which mostly means staying away from what passes as “news” these days.

Sitting in a restaurant last night, my table was facing a grandmother, mother, and young son. As they were … Read More

Anybody Up for a Game of Hockey?

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If the weather forecast holds true, next weekend I foresee lots of grown humans coming over and remembering how to play again. The sound of slap-shots will reverberate for hours. And hot chocolate will pour freely.

We love our pond. But it’s not often that we get the perfect conditions where it’s cold enough, long enough, for it to freeze deeply enough without snow mucking up the whole deal. That’s why we get excited when we see this.
pond
Having grown … Read More

How to Opt Out of Verizon’s Super Cookie Tracking

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I have a real problem with the loss of privacy and the escalation of personal tracking to serve us ever more advertising. Verizon is about as bad as any company gets, in my book. Read the following Gizmodo article for yourself. And then take the precautions listed below.

Be Afraid: Verizon’s Supercookies to Merge With AOL’s Ad-Tracking Network

If you’re a Verizon customer, here’s how you can Opt Out:

-Login to your Verizon account https://www.verizon.com/myverizon/

-Go to this URL: http://vzw.com/myprivacy… Read More

Sharing an Experience

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I was speaking with a long-time mentoring student who’s found himself working very hard not to become embroiled in verbal battles of late. His question to me was:

 Is there a way that we can sanely engage in intelligent conversation
that can include differing views, without resorting to hostility?

Great question, don’t you think? Is it possible to discuss politics or religion, or anything we feel passionately about, without getting locked into stalemated arguments? Which usually results in the predictable … Read More

Traffic Jam in the Country

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Lots of animal families live on our little corner of the wild kingdom. This family of wild turkeys is the most recent to take up residence. I find them particularly interesting in light of my recent viewing of PBS’ My Life as a Turkey.

When they’re all together, there’s quite a traffic jam as they try to make it from one end of the property to the other. That is until our traffic cops tell them to move it … Read More

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