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It’s snowing now. We have the first inch or so of what may turn out to be as much as a foot by morning, the first big snow of the year. The snowfall is beautiful, alternately a dense fall of tiny flakes and a sparse fall of great fat flakes that float on the wind.…
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The pellet stove is our daily companion again, with the tinkle of pellets feeding from the hopper and the cheery flame in the window. It is active most of the day, from the time I turn up its thermostat in the morning until I turn it back down at bedtime. On these cold nights I…
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Dunkin’ Brands wants to put a Baskin Robbins/Dunkin’ Donuts on the corner of Chestnut (the main street into town coming from the south) and Walnut (the street where Aviva lives and where we’ve just bought our village house). One of the charms of Cooperstown is that, except for CVS and ACE Hardware, there are no…
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Last night Peter, Aviva, Jay and I went to the opening dinner for the annual Poetry Festival in Sharon Springs. I wrote about this terrific event last year and it was such fun to be back for a second time. Once again, the food and the setting were perfect. Paul Muldoon, the founder of the…
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Sunday 9/29/19 erev Rosh Hashana Jay and I had a stroll through the dockside visitor center and around the Saguenay water front. Based on what we heard from folks who did bus tours, we didn’t miss much. The huge German ship that we had docked near in Quebec was also docked in Saguenay when we…
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Saturday 9/28/19 I made an error in my last entry – we sailed right past Montreal and on through the night, reaching Quebec City late morning. We’ll stop in Montreal, our final stop, on the way back upriver. We had a beautiful day in Quebec, cool and sunny, perfect for walking. The low lying area…
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9/24/19 We tied up yesterday afternoon at Rome, NY, the highest point on the canal, and the place where the work on it was begun in 1817. There was a tour of Ft, Stanwicx, a recreation of a pre-Revolutionary War fort. It would be a good place to visit with grand-kids to give them a…
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A fox bounded across Gulf Road in front of us in the pre-dawn dark Friday morning just past Brian’s place. He took two huge leaps and barely seemed to touch the ground before he disappeared into the woods. We were off on the trip that has been on the calendar for months, heading first for…
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On Tuesday night Charlie and I rousted the huge flock of geese that have gathered on the hill. Going out for our last walk of the day in the near dark at eight, we didn’t expect to see them, because they’re usually down at the pond by that hour. But they were quite close to…
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Tamar called Friday afternoon. I should have noted that it was odd for her to call during her work day, but I’m just always so happy to see her name on the phone screen that I didn’t stop to think. But it was a sad call. Our Mom’s cousin, Bob Bookchin, had died. Mom was…
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