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Category: Holidays – holidaze

  • The Sixty-Plus Club!

    The Sixty-Plus Club!

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    Herb

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22282 – 785: Here’s the haps: Yes, today I turned 61 and so now I am officially “over-sixty.” Kids and grandkids and my younger sister came to greet me and wish me well with pizza, cake, ice cream, and cards. It was really nice. Everyone laughed at…

  • Time To Start Marking The Bench but Not Marking Time On The Bench Because I Could Fall Off And Get Hurt

    Time To Start Marking The Bench but Not Marking Time On The Bench Because I Could Fall Off And Get Hurt

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    Herb

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22249 – 774: Here’s the haps: It’s that time of year again, folks. Time to dust off the old promises you made to yourself. It’s interesting to me the different ways people mark the new year and what they plan to accomplish. For some it’s resolutions, others…

  • Dear Radio Station Producer Playing Round-The-Clock Christmas Music

    Dear Radio Station Producer Playing Round-The-Clock Christmas Music

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    Herb

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22221 – 767: Here’s the haps: Many of you know that I have loved radio all my life. In fact, if life had taken a couple of different turns I would possibly have had a career in it, but that was a long time ago. As a…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday On Saturday – Putting The “X” Back In Xmas & My Holiday Theme Song

    Curmudgeonly Monday On Saturday – Putting The “X” Back In Xmas & My Holiday Theme Song

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22191 – 755: Here’s the haps: Last year on Christmas Day I posted “Merry Xmas!” and was able to reason with the torch-bearing mob by explaining that putting an “X” in Christmas has been going on for a long time and in and of itself is not…

  • Some Stuff I Learned And Father’s Day

    Some Stuff I Learned And Father’s Day

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    Herb

    I get a lot of good things by serendipity. I was reading that the Dumbest Blogger Ever and he said he was going to start numbering his posts. He said that one of his favorite podcasts does that, too. I know that Bruce over at Weave A Web does this…

  • The Anniversary Present

    The Anniversary Present

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    Herb

    A few days ago I told you about my wife’s favorite tool, her trusty rusty smoker/grill/fire pit, and how she finds it relaxing to have a fire. Son, Tong, had given it to her a few years ago and she has made it earn its keep around here. In that…

  • Treasure Hunting

    Treasure Hunting

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    Herb

    One of the things we enjoy doing on our adventures is treasure hunting at thrift stores, second only to dumpster diving and curb surfing. Well, to define dumpster diving a bit, if we see something that is potentially valuable in a dumpster we will pull it out and take a…

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