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Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animals. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 22, 2026

I love the smell of Play-Doh in the morning

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Few smells are as evocative of my childhood as the unmistakable smell of Play-Doh. In the latter stages of the 1950s Play-Doh became availab...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

O, Canada: Take your geese, please!

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At a distance, they are quite beautiful. That is to say, when that distance is hundreds of feet in the air, and they're amassed in chevr...
Thursday, April 16, 2026

Why we have regulations, Part one million, three hundred thousand, nine-hundred forty nine

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Chances are that, at any given time, there'll be a chunk of Parmigiano-Reggiano in my fridge. Some pasta on the shelf, a bottle of olive...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Talk about school trip gone bad

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When I was in kid, school trips weren't much of a thing. Fifty kids in a class? Where were we going to go, and who was going to foot the...
Thursday, January 08, 2026

Assisted living for penguins? Yes!

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Years ago, I saw the March of the Penguins , a documentary about the life of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. Talk about nasty, brutish, ...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Indifference to Running

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Not that I watch much college football, or churn through a lot of brain cycles thinking about it, but one of the funner things about college...
Tuesday, November 04, 2025

ATM's for doggos? Oh, why not?

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Today is election day in Boston. It's pretty much a yawner. Our mayor, Michelle Wu, trounced her main opponent in the primary. And I do ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Who says there's no good news?

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Babies (and puppies) aside, if there's a little critter any cuter than the axolotl, I don't know what it is. This pink salamander lo...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

An "unprovoked attack"? Not from the water buffalo's point of view

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A couple of months ago, there was news out of South Africa that a big-game hunter from Texas was killed by a Cape buffalo he was stalking. A...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Polly want a crackhead?

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This story is something straight out of an old Perry Mason episode - "The Case of the Squawking Parrot." Or maybe a Columbo , wher...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

FORE!

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Well, today's an anniversary that we'd all just as soon forget. Such a terrible, terrible, day... Sure, we have a lot of terrible, t...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

If you're taking a stroll around Webster, Mass, BOLO

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As anyone who grew up in Worcester County knows, the honors for the longest name for any geographic whatever - mountain, canyon, river, lake...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

I can think of a lot worse ways to go

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Last month, a small plane crashed near the Sugar Valley Airport in NC. The pilot and one passenger were killed. Another passenger was seriou...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Loose Lips Sink Ships

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Honestly, I can almost, kinda sorta understand people who enjoy hunting. I'm by no means a vegetarian. It may not be my cup of tea, but ...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

That's the Woody Woodpecker Song

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I don't imagine there are many Baby Boomers who didn't, at some point in their childhoods, use the Woody Woodpecker laugh. The onlin...