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Do you know how to be prepared for the first 72 hours?

If you don’t know how to prepare yourself and your home for the first 72 hours after a disaster, you should visit 72hours.org. 72 Hours is a website run by the City of San Francisco but offers valuable planning tips that would be useful to anyone.
There are two main areas to the site.  The first […]

Upstate New York, planned to please

The time has come for me to plan our annual summer vacation. Typically we go camping in upstate New York for one week, traveling at the same time as my parents. We pull a tiny travel trailer behind my truck up to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. While there we camp at […]

Happy Mother’s Day

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The price of getting to and from the airport

Everyone I know has a different view of what’s the most cost efficient way to get to and from the airport if you’re taking a longer trip and don’t wish to leave your car in the parking lot. My parents travel frequently, and many of those times they do fly. I am the person that […]

RC Cars, a hobby for all generations

Every male in my family has a radio controlled car. Actually, they all have at least one Xmod rc car, but most if not all have more than one. Over the years my parents bought my brothers a couple of rc cars. As they grew older the cars were manufactured better and more capable. […]

Organizing the toys

My youngest son has a lot of Thomas the Tank little trains as well as lots of tracks. He has some buildings and playsets too. But the trains and the tracks end up in his bedroom and my living room every day. I have been trying to figure out a way to store them and […]

Merry Christmas

I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas, full of family, love, warmth, joy and kindness. I also want to express my thanks to all of my blogging buddies and my blog visitors. I hope we can share each others company for a long time to come.
Merry Christmas!

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And they’re off

I got up at 4am this morning and took my parents to Newark Airport. Newark takes less than an hour to get to. They were going to Florida, then Indiana, then back to Florida, then home again. My parents seem to always be going somewhere. Even when they’re home they’re always going somewhere. They frequently […]

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