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This annual fund-raiser for the Alexandria Area Arts Association took place this past weekend.  As usual, City Park was filled to capacity with vendors in arts, crafts, food, and music.  I go for the music – and, OK, I’m not opposed … Continue reading →

As noted in The 4th (the aftermath), on July 13, 2011, a date that will live in infamy, the Callecod sisters, a/k/a, The Biddies, deserted this reporter for a trip to the wilds of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin.  The sisters, … Continue reading →

[* Borrowed without permission from Monty Python’s Flying Circus, used as a segue’ for something completely the same.] We got another inch and a half of rain Tuesday night.  Unless I am badly mistaken (what, moi?), that brings the total … Continue reading →

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them. ~ Lyman Abbott  [Editor’s note:  OK, I agree.] Earth laughs in flowers.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Hamatreya” The earth laughs … Continue reading →