Month: August 2020

MY BEST-EVER JOB

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/31/2020 • ( 7 )

Fandango’s Dog Days of August #30: MY BEST JOB EVER I had been looking for a job that would let me flex my hours so Garry and I could spend time together. It was difficult. He worked terribly long hours, gone… Read More ›

FAMILY TOLL OF BIPOLAR DISORDER – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 08/31/2020 • ( 7 )

I never paid much attention to the Kardashian family and I certainly never thought I had anything in common with them. But now I suddenly have a connection with Kim Kardashian – we have both experienced the chaos of life… Read More ›

BIG WHITE HORSES IN THE VALLEY

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/31/2020 • ( 12 )

We grow a lot of horses in the valley. Many are saddle horses. Quarter horses. Morgans and Tennessee Walkers. But mostly, we grow big horses. Belgian Draft horses and Percherons. They don’t do anything much. No circuses for these horses…. Read More ›

HAIRY WOODPECKER AT WORK

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/30/2020 • ( 9 )

I got up this morning and there was a hairy woodpecker working hard on a tree. He wasn’t where I usually shoot, but I managed to find a window that was clean enough to shoot through and I got some… Read More ›

EVENING’S GOLDEN HOUR

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/30/2020 • ( 16 )

Fandango’s Dog Days of August #29 Coming home from Mass General, we drove into the most golden sunset I’ve ever seen. My favorite hours of the day are dawn, just before sunrise when all the birds are singing and you can… Read More ›

SPARROWS, WOODPECKERS, AND CAROLINA WRENS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/30/2020 • ( 6 )

We got a bit of rain yesterday and today, but not enough. Not nearly enough. We are in a stage called “serious drought, ” but we may move into “dangerous drought” by the end of next week. Not surprisingly, living… Read More ›

VACATION MEMORIES: MAINE, VERMONT AND COOPERSTOWN

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/30/2020 • ( 9 )

A Photo a Week Challenge: Vacation Memories Our honeymoon was in Ireland and that was definitely our most memorable vacation. But I don’t have much in the way of pictures from those weeks on the Emerald Isle … and it really… Read More ›

ALWAYS AUTUMN

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/30/2020 • ( 10 )

Fandango’s Dog Days of August #28: LOVING AUTUMN New England has always been the best place in the world to see the colors of Autumn. We have always had “bad” autumnal years. There can be too much rain or an… Read More ›

WE ABOLISHED RECREATIONAL ALCOHOL IN 1920 AND NO ONE HAS HAD A DRINK SINCE

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/29/2020 • ( 18 )

Once upon a time so many years ago, Americans had national fit of self-righteousness.We decided alcohol was the root of all evil. To rectify the perceived problem, the nation rose up on its collective hind legs and passed the 18th… Read More ›

BLACK & WHITE – SHOES, FEET, HUMAN & ANIMAL

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/28/2020 • ( 7 )

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Feet or Shoes, Human or Animal This Cee Neuner, this week her topic is Feet or Shoes, Human, or Animals. Enjoy being creative if you feel like it, and have fun with the challenge…. Read More ›

LIFE AS AN EXTROVERTED INTROVERT – BY ELLIN CURLEY

By Ellin Curley on 08/28/2020 • ( 12 )

I learned a new phrase recently, ‘extroverted introvert.’ I’d never heard it before but I instantly recognized that it applied to me and even explained some things about myself that had always puzzled me. I have extrovert qualities but at… Read More ›

DELIVERING THE GOODS

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/28/2020 • ( 6 )

We have already spent a lot of time talking about USPS and voting and all that, but we haven’t gotten to our favorite amusing anecdotes about UPS and Fedex. Each has its own cute and funny methods or not getting… Read More ›

DOES THE CHARACTER MATCH THE IMAGE IN THE BOOK?

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/27/2020 • ( 11 )

Fandango’s Provocative Question #84 I’ve got a four answers here and really, there should be more. I’ve put them in order of their dates of release. The Haunting is a 1963 British horror film directed and produced by Robert Wise and… Read More ›

MY FAVORITE GARDEN BIRDS IN 2020 (WITH 4 MONTHS TO GO)

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/27/2020 • ( 14 )

I don’t have anything raging through my mind, so I thought this might be a good time to show off my favorite bird pictures for 2020. There isn’t a lot of good stuff going on. Most of us haven’t gone… Read More ›

EARLY VOTING IN A SMALL TOWN

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/27/2020 • ( 20 )

By “here,” I mean pretty anywhere in the valley. Basically, anyplace in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts which isn’t in the ring designated as “greater Boston” is just a mark on the map. Voting early requires two things. The first is… Read More ›

TODAY’S NEWS AT SIX

By Marilyn Armstrong on 08/26/2020 • ( 12 )

Watching the news tonight was illuminating, in an Illuminati kind of way The first subject they covered was politics, including the postal crisis, a couple of local races, plus concerns about not getting ballots delivered or entered on time. It… Read More ›