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    Cry A Little

    … on life stuff, all of it and all at once… always

    This morning we awoke to a pop and the sound of our beloved fan, the one we turn on each night for its pleasing hum, spinning down. Full disclosure:... Read More

    Tags: maine, empty nest, photography, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a wedding destiny-ation

    When we were done restoring The Inn, our place that was an inn during the late 1800s and early 1900s but is not an inn so don’t come by... Read More

    Tags: humor, acid etching, acid stained floor, barns, concrete barn floor, maine barns, old barn restoration, musings, maine

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    Think A Little

    … on sticking the landing

    I don’t usually write about news stories. I have… when they’ve struck my fancy. I wrote about the Batkid based on what I’d seen in the news, and I remember writing about... Read More

    Tags: humor, photography, grief, aging, Driving Miss Norma, Miss Norma, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on being mocked

    I am wondering if I get enough respect from the non-humans around the Dingle household. Blaze, as a royal, is a pretty entitled beast. Marshal Dillon Dingle believes the... Read More

    Tags: maine, humor, photography, bird photography, maine birds, mockingbird, mockingbird in winter, musings

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the morning after

    Well good mornin’! I got a few messages last night, letting me know people were with Marshal in his moment of profound disappointment that two feet of snow were... Read More

    Tags: musings, humor, photography, Dunstable, marshal dillon dingle, Stella, winter in new england

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    Laugh A Little

    … on a crushing disappointment

    Clearly Mother Nature has underestimated our newly-minted intrepid reporter. Uh… he knows math! There are not 24 inches of snow out there and, as the darkness envelopes the newly fallen whiteness,... Read More

    Tags: musings, german shepherd, humor, photography, marshal dillon dingle, german shepherd dog, german shepherd in snow

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    Laugh A Little

    … on it picking up a bit

    So, uh… it’s begun to pick up a little bit around here. Since our last report, with pictures taken before noon, snow has continued to fall to the tune... Read More

    Tags: musings, german shepherd, humor, photography

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    Laugh A Little

    … on checking in!

    Okay, here’s the deal. It’s snowing. Still. Apparently, in New York City, they are disappointed because they are only getting a ‘glancing blow’ because Stella is proving to be a... Read More

    Tags: Stella, winter in new england, musings, german shepherd, comedy, humor, photography, german shepherds in snow, german shepherd dog

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    Laugh A Little

    … on snow. Snow! OMG SNOW!

    Greetings! Last night I asked Marshal if he wanted to be a measuring stick. Blaze and I had been discussing the impact of a 24-hour news cycle on the... Read More

    Tags: winter in new england, musings, comedic writing, german shepherd, comedy, humor, photography, Stella

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    Laugh A Little

    … on the scamp and birthdays

    I looked it up. Scamping is being mischievous in an endearing, a playful, or naughty way. Actually, I don’t think ‘scamping’ is a word. Scamp is though. And Marshal Dillon Dingle is one. Hence,... Read More

    Tags: german shepherd dog, musings, family, german shepherd, humor, photography

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    Cry A Little

    … on a couple of toasts

    Once upon a time Delia Ephron wrote a book called Hanging Up, and then her sister Nora produced it into a movie. It wasn’t a super blockbuster or anything, but... Read More

    Tags: joy, grief, musings, old yankee man, humor, photography

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    Cry A Little

    … on gentle reminders

    A gentle reminder… Tap on the shoulder… A whisper of a memory… Or that freaky scene in Poltergeist where Carol-Anne turns from the television and ominously announces that freaky ghosts... Read More

    Tags: old yankee man, humor, secrets to happiness, death of a parent, musings, maine, grandparents

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Gawd

The way to invoke the deity without being hit by lightening for taking the actual name in vain (Side benefit: Also fits in with a Boston (Baw-stun) accent). You have to capitalize it though (just to be sure, and also because of reverence).

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