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Prospect CT 20th Annual Pumpkin Festival, Oct 12 2024It's time for the parade and judging of the pumpkins which gets a lot of anticipation and generates anxiety with the kids.This is a fun time with the burlap maze on the green and the competition with the team competition in the hay-roll races ...
10/05/2024
Friday Flags Patriotic Watertown CT Bottling PlantWednesday mornings are my day of playing golf in a senior's league at Crestbrook Park in Watertown CT. On the way to the course, I always pass the Crystal Rock plant with it's all too large flag, seldom waving for me to catch a shot.I was fortunat...
10/04/2024
October 1, for Market Trends For Waterbury CT's West End Side, Zip 06708The 06708 Zip code encompasses the west side of Waterbury with 4 neighborhoods known as Brooklyn, Town Plot, Lower and Upper Bunker Hill. It is also the largest zip code in Waterbury. There are currently 34 active listings in...
10/01/2024
Friday Flags Patriotic Prospect CT Pool Supply StoreAlong the business corridor in Prospect are several offices and small businesses. At the front of one is a flag to identify the business as loyal to our country.The angle at which it hangs makes it difficult to get a shot of in full flutter, but...
09/27/2024
Throwback Thursdays: What Home Service Used to BeThere re many services that we still utilize for the convenience of not leaving our home. Mail is still a given, and we now get regular deliveries from Amazon, FedEx and UPS.A recent vacation trip gave me a thought as to what we may have been rece...
09/26/2024
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Transition to Fall 2024 in Watertown CTToday, Sept 22, 2024 marks the official transition to Autumn and in a short period of time, the colors around us will make themselves visible.Still being warm and sunny, it was a shock to me this past week while playing my weekly round of golf with fellow se...
09/22/2024
Friday Flags The Golf Course at Crestbrook Park Watertown CTI play in a senior's league in Watertown CT every Wednesday morning along with 110 fellow golfers. It's a very large league and monopolize the course each week. Last week while making the walk to the 10th tee, I glanced over my shoulder...
09/20/2024
And As the Sun Sets on the Horizon, So Ends the Vacation in PortugalAll good things to come to an end and if the vacation was done right, slight regrets and big satisfaction.We made a visit to Portugal to gather with relatives as our sphere of relations on my father 's side ended last year with t...
09/18/2024
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An Uncommon Way to Shoe Horses I noticed what appeared to be a bus shelter while walking with my cousin in Portugal this past week. I was told that it wasn't a bus shelter but was a stand for shoeing horses.I couldn't appreciate how that would be practical as I, after all, was an expert from seei...
09/15/2024
Friday Flags An Eagle Scouts Patriotic Efforts in Wolcott CTThis is a post that I have been waiting to offer and have had the photos for quite a while now.Wolcott CT is a small town and at an intersection on the East side near Frisby School sits a small center island. It is also near the senior c...
09/13/2024