The Second, Second Best Blog

Still full of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams,… you get the picture. This year’s feast courtesy of our good friends Steve and Jill Bennet, who graciously invited the Fullers: Jerry, Pat, and Matt, to sit down with Patrick and Alex for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. So now it must be time for the Christmas newsletter.

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In case you have wondered about the photos used in the masthead on this site, wonder no more. Just click on The Panorama Page. While retaining two of the original Cutline theme photos, I added seven of my own and implemented “Random Headers”.
Hopefully you have also noticed Dar’s Eulogy. My most excellent spouse, Patricia Ann, [...]

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On the way back into the house after retrieving the Sunday newspaper, the scene at left caught my eye. The spider webs are almost surely there all the time, but the fog destroyed their camouflage. It also hid the sun until after 10:00 AM as can be seen at right looking down the street in [...]

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For several years my most excellent spouse, Patricia Ann, has been maintaining and distributing a list of addresses and phone numbers for her extended family: the Wares, Wights, Savages, Castles and second generation Fullers. Since we both now have our own websites, we thought we could improve it’s availability by posting it on-line. So I [...]

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In last month’s story about my new computer, the task of switching to Windows Mail on Vista from Outlook 2000 on XP remained on my To Do list. It was accomplished in about two hours after taking the suggestion of my friend Terry. As mentioned earlier, there is no one step path between these two. [...]

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The morning walk across the backyard to get some bird seed gave me pause to reflect on the nature of things. The tableau of feathers on the lawn suggests that the day’s start was very good for one fortunate Cooper’s Hawk and the very worst for one of the 16 or so Mourning Doves who are regulars at [...]

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