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Tower Park Battle

This weekend is a busy one here in Lexington. Patriot’s Day is celebrated on Monday, but there’s stuff going on all weekend. This afternoon there was a battle reenactment at Tower Park. It was...

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Historic American Buildings Survey

The Library of Congress has a lot of interesting stuff online. One which I’ve found pretty interesting recently is called the HABS/HAER/HALS Collection. It’s a collection of engineering drawings and photographs of all sorts...

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Winter Band Concert

The Lexington Schools Winter Concerts were this week. Tom’s not doing band this year, but Pete still is. And doesn’t he look good in a tux? This is the big annual concert where they...

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Kitchen Shelves

I spent yesterday installing these new shelves in the kitchen. They give us a little more storage space, but mostly they just make the area where we took down the overhead cupboard look a...

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New Year’s

We didn’t stay up late last night. We did celebrate a bit after Tom hit submit on another college application. It’s not his last one, but he’s getting pretty close to the end. Today...

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Christmas Eve

We hope that your family’s Christmas Eve has been as nice as ours has this year. The weather in Lexington has been wonderful this year. On the first day of winter it was in...

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Fall Berries

It was in the high 50’s a sunny most of the weekend, so we spent most of the four days outside doing things like raking. We may not have had many acorns this year,...

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Owl & Hawk

We were headed out to the car this afternoon when we heard a loud screech. We looked up into one of the big willow trees and saw this owl. But it wasn’t the owl...

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Where are the acorns?

I was observing the other day that after a couple of years of bumper crops of acorns, there are hardly any this year. It’s usually kind of a pain to rake our yard because...

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Trick or Treat, Part 2

We didn’t get any trick-or-treaters this year. Instead, these guys showed up: They slowly cruised down the street with a big spotlight aimed at the wires. Every time they found a branch tangled in...