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Entries from February 2008

Jay Sings For Me

February 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

Yesterday I was doing yardwork, cutting the grass, trimming the hedges, when Jay paid me a late morning visit. He had been around with his companion Kay as usual much earlier and had been away for an hour or so. He came and took a peanut from me and went inside the hedge in the [...]

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Tags: Birds

Sneaky Credit Card Practices You May Not Have Encountered

February 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

For most of my adult life, there has been one, and only one, credit card in my wallet – a Visa card from Bank of America. Its expiration date was approaching and a new one arrived in the mail today. As has been the case for several years, the new card had a sticker on [...]

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Tags: Economics

Route 3, Box 83

February 11th, 2008 · Comments Off

When I think of home, it’s not the Southern California cookie cutter cracker box that I own today, even though I’ve lived here longer than anywhere else. It’s the old ranch house where my four brothers and I grew up in Lassen County’s Honey Lake Valley, 14 miles east of Susanville, off of U.S. 395. [...]

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Tags: Old photos · The Life Story