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Happy Bday Mikey

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All there in spirit.  Celebrate vicariously via Margaret and Lally’s Bday dinner back in July!

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#birthweekend in Brooklyn

Millennials and GenXers have BirthWeek celebrations. I grew up with BirthDay, and with age has become a bit more BirthHour celebration. This year we’ll try BirthWeekend, complete with Itinerary http://poppasbirthday.wordpress.com/about/itinerary/ and coincident with Canadian Thanksgiving. Excited!

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a few more tears…..

when we picked up Socks ashes yesterday.

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all that landscape work I did seems to have been worthwhile

Got thinking about Vancouver, so looked up the old homestead. I know each of those Photinias, Japanese maples, pieris and blades of grass, etc. personally https://www.google.com/maps/@49.3203691,-123.0074325,3a,75y,267.72h,71.92t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sDo1zKtbkEoAG_cMF9g_5GQ!2e0 Yes apparently you can waste a good deal of your day on social media. … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Daddy!

Happy Birthday, Dad! We wish we could be with you today to celebrate. We thought this would be a good place to present your gift: A [Belated] Birthday Celebration in Brooklyn. Check out the itinerary here: https://poppasbirthday.wordpress.com xoxo Lally & Megan

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Democracy that works: tolerance and good sense

From The New York Times We the People of Scotland The vote to stay in Britain amounted to a powerful reminder of the virtues of democracy. http://nyti.ms/1uZtsnO Oh yeah that. Shouldn’t be too tough to translate those words into American … Continue reading

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RIP Socksy

A cat who thought he was human, and had more personality than a few humans I have known. Probably not a coincidence that he leaves us on one of, if not currently the most poignant day of loss in the … Continue reading

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Iraq in a nutshell

From The New York Times Iraq’s Last Chance Iraq has devolved into a combination of Lebanon and Nigeria — a toxic brew of sectarian politics and oil-fueled kleptocracy. http://nyti.ms/1oC0smr

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Excellent. Now I don’t need to read the other 682 pages either.

The New York Times: An Idiot’s Guide to Inequality. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwx_7AwBo And like everyone else I don’t need to actually read and understand Pinketty’s pov on the issue, I can just quote the conclusions. Maybe People magazine or 60 Minutes will … Continue reading

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Megan and the girls get a little pub

licity, not pub restaurant http://caratsandcake.com/meganandbrian

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