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Day 26: 40 Days of Thankfulness

Giving thanks to our Veterans today   I’m not sure how Veterans Day turned into a holiday and a day to sell stuff, but then, most every holiday has turned into a day for stores to run “sales”.  Possibly, the original intent was to give our veterans a break but it has sure morphed away …

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Armistice Day

The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had eliminated Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the war. Also known as the Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it …

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Day 22: 40 Days of Thankfulness

From last year…       Today, I give thanks and shed a more than a few tears for a wonderful friend, co-worker, choir buddy, special person to everyone he met. I’m so thankful I got to sing in the choir honoring Tim – and I’m very thankful that this Celebration of Life was live-streamed on …

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Day 21: 40 Days of Thankfulness

  Today I’m so thankful for OakMarr and its swimming pool! Most Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I go to water excercise classes there.  There is a different instructor each day which was weird at first but I like it now because they all teach different exercises.  One of my favorite instructors is actually a sub, …

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Day 16: 40 Days of Thankfulness

  Today I am thankful for my church choir.  Last year at this time, the “low voice choir” formerly the Men’s Choir sang this:     I’ve had a long history with singing from the time I was a kid singing in the choir at my Dad’s church in Springfield, Mass. In High School we …

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Day 6: 40 Days of Thankfulness

Today I’m thankful for Travel. We’ve been fortunate to be able to travel to several interesting places. Some, like Iceland, we just lucked in to. We’d wanted to go to Ireland but the travel agent couldn’t get us in at any time over that summer. She did get us a deal where, if we flew Iceland …

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Day 3: 40 Days of Thankfulness

  Today, since it’s a “teaching day”, I’m thankful for my piano studio, my students, and my piano 🙂   When I was growing up, my dad was a minister, meaning we lived in whatever parsonage the church chose to let us live in.  The one we had in Pawcatuck, CT had an upright piano …

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Scotland’s August Bank Holiday

Last year we’re in Scotland on August 28, so we were affected by the August Bank Holiday.  This year’s holiday is on Monday, August 27. The August Bank Holiday was instituted by the Bank Holidays Act of 1871 to give bankers a day off so they could participate in cricket matches. Since then, however, its significance …

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1939: The Wizard of Oz Premiered

  1939 ~ Dorothy embarked on a journey down the yellow brick road with a lion, a tin man and a scarecrow in the classic film “The Wizard of Oz.”     When I saw the movie MUCH later I was terrified of the witch and hid under one of the theater seats.  My mother was …

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Happy Palindrome Time!

  A palindrome exists when letters, numbers, or phrases are the same forward and backward. For example, the words “racecar” and “kayak” are palindromes along with the phrase “Was it a car or a cat I saw?” The dates this week are all five-digit palindromes. Today is 8-18-18; it’s the same if you read it …

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