Pictured on your left is my oldest Puggle, a handsome three-year-old male whose name is Eddie Haskell . In this image Eddie is hiding under my work desk, and the reason that he lurks at my feet is that he has accumulated portions of five rawhide chew...

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I frequently pass the pictured panhandler at his regular post, which is at the off-ramp from southbound I-75 at U.S.-20 (Fremont Pike). Though I consider myself a relatively generous person, I am much more discriminating when I encounter people cadging...

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While my neighbors invested many hundreds - and perhaps thousands - of dollars in loud fireworks, I spent the last few minutes of my Fourth of July looking at a nine-year-old Japanese juniper, the plant in the accompanying image. Yes, friends: I am now...

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Pictured on your left are a group of lilies in my yard that begin to bloom each year around the first of July. What I especially enjoy about these colorful flowers is the way that they almost seem to be on fire when sunlight hits them, as if scarlet-hued.
Topics: lilies

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My youngest son spent quite a few hours this winter playing the Playstation golf game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 . He became quite proficient at the virtual world of golf, regularly scoring in the 40s for 18 holes, and as a result my son expressed an...

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