My Backyard

The next time you google my backyard to go to our web site please try the search box. Any thing and every thing we have posted there is easy to find. Type in the name of your town or your high school or an elected official and if we covered it or them it is [...]

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I know we cannot yet notice, but the earth, in our neighborhood, is tilting back toward the sun. It is tilting only a smidge each day, but those smidges add up. March 22, 2009 is not that far away. Then the smidging gets serious. The seasons’ changes are a cycle measured and predictable. Other changes, [...]

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I believe Christmas is about making memories for our children. We can all remember each childhood Christmas and where we were living. I know that one of my earliest memories and this is a before I was old enough to go to school memory and we were living in a second floor apartment in Mrs. [...]

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On our way back from the local L.L.Bean Store on Saturday we saw at least a half dozen cars with the family Christmas tree lashed to the roof. Neighbors were holding “decorate the tree parties” this weekend. I can never remember whether the “decorate the tree weekend” or the “bake cookies with the neighbors weekend” [...]

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Over the long weekend, we met many excellent workers. It is not easy working in the service sector. We all have horror stories of incompetent and occasionally arrogant or rude employees and of course the reciprocal is also true. There are rude and arrogant customers.
We did not do Thanksgiving dinner at home this year. Instead [...]

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We all know about Black Friday the Friday after Thanksgiving. The day has holiday status at My Backyard. The shoppers on our staff work on Veterans’ Day and take Black Friday as a holiday.
My spouse reminded me over the weekend that there are only thirty one days until Christmas Day. She was talking days not [...]

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We will have to get another key holder board to hang in the kitchen. We will soon be holding the keys for all four of the late 1920’s homes that fill our section of the neighborhood.
My parents’ house is being readied for sale and I am there everyday occupied with that task. We are keepers [...]

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As best I can tell, there are no dog houses in the neighborhood. When I was growing up, everyone who had a dog had a dog house out in the backyard. Some dogs were chained to their dog houses and some big dogs used to drag their houses around. They had names like Zeus and [...]

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When you read this the election will be over. At least, I hope it will be over. We do not need a Florida or Ohio controversy to mar another election cycle. It would be best if the victors attain decisive victories. I would also put on my wish list the hope that the winner of [...]

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I usually spend my lunch time taking a brisk walk with the dog. I also spend my before breakfast and after dinner time walking the dog. I know that the Attleboro Y has walking programs. I would guess many Y’s offer similar programs. Most of the times when I decided to get in shape, something [...]

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