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This blog is my play area. I use it just to keep stuff sort of documented.

Spring Tonic!

Spring Tonic!

First posted Tuesday, April 15, 2014 By Don Jacobs  "As far back as I can remember, when April arrived we brought in dandelion leaves for our annual Spring Tonic, which was dandelion leaves, bacon, eggs on mashed potatoes. Can still taste it. All those memories came...

Santiago

Santiago

We spent one dusty hot day in Santiago. We stayed at the Holiday Inn at the airport. We took a taxi in to town and rode the cable cat to the central lookout. Then we figured out how to use the subway and bus to return. That was our own little adventure!

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Photo from BWI

Photo from BWI

Our flight out of Atlanta was delayed 90 minutes. Not too much of a problem, just a lot of waiting around.

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Night before leaving

Night before leaving

Four outfits covering four seasons; fitted into a carry-on and a personal item. We will see how this goes!

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This Day in Dad’s Photo Scanning

This Day in Dad’s Photo Scanning

These photos came up today in "on this day in the past." Evidently Dad saved these pictures on this date, and now my One Drive shows them to me on this date. This is an eclectic bunch!

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Dad’s Birthday

Dad’s Birthday

Today was my late Dad's Birthday. Here are some photos of him. The first one is Dad burning huge blocks of packaging Styrofoam in his fire on Lyndell. Lisa was horrified, but that was my Dad - he lived life by his own rules! Media OLYMPUS DIGITAL...

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Hot Day in July

Hot Day in July

At some point in the past few years I saved one of my Dad's photo archives from an external hard drive to my OneDrive. So they keep showing up as "memories on this day." Today it was 95 degrees in real life in Lancaster, PA, but these photos showed up:

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 The Fascinating History of this Site

This Foray in to WordPress started on or about 11/26/2017. It’s ramblings about running, computers, and sometimes food.