Jacob's Pillow is a dance venue in Beckett, Massachusetts, about twenty minutes from my home. It has a great history and last night was largely modern dance with members of the New York City Ballet. The season is almost over and this is the last week. It was fun to attend three performances this
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08/24/2018
I have a lot of lilies in my garden. Anything I have planted is re-blooming or ever blooming, but the front of my home has regular flowers whose season is gone. I have hundreds of stalks and leaves to get rid of. It takes a lot of time and today I begin the clean up in earnest. Since there is no
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08/23/2018
This is the time of year when nurseries stop selling annuals and I start to clean up my garden. I have both annuals and perennials in pots and invariably I forget what is what so everything goes into the ground I wash the pots and start to get ready for fall and winter. I work in the morning and
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08/22/2018
The thing that most agents and clients have in common is that they have decided the time for action has come. Getting to that place is something that requires thought, inclination and determination. When you are sure of what you want you can get there. Ambivalence has no place in real estate howe
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08/22/2018
There are any number of critters in and around my home and yard. For two days now one little squirrel or chipmunk has been collecting green balls, that I think are almonds, and putting them under my deck. I have lattice around the deck but he or she just jumps through the spaces. The little one i
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08/21/2018
I have met many wonderful people while traveling. I tend to travel alone but with small groups where I get to meet people beyond those I would come in contact with normally, and that is generally terrific. Some of these folks I have stayed in touch with: largely on Facebook but sometimes more dir
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08/21/2018
I follow yard sales every weekend. I buy things, clean and fix them as necessary and then re-sell them at my booth in the antique gallery where I work Sundays' and have a space. Today driving I saw a sign for the leftovers from a weekend garage sale. The signs had sale crossed out and the word fr
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08/20/2018
I have enjoyed a busy couple of weeks. Today not so busy but clearly happy. It is a good day. A day where I will take stock, both literally and figuratively. I work at the antique gallery where I have a space yesterday and sold some things so I have to fill in now. It is a good thing to deal with
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08/20/2018
I have had a friend visiting for the last couple of days. The weather was lousy but the things we did were fun. Yesterday after an early breakfast at Joe's Diner my friend and I did a couple of garage sales before attending a rehearsal for todays concert at Tanglewood. It was so nice to be a gues
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08/19/2018
I have a new camera for about three weeks now. It happened because I broke my older one and needed a new one. It took me a couple of weeks to find one that I was comfortable with and was portable. I finally bought a Canon that has more features than I will ever use and is fairly complicated. I co
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08/18/2018