Author: Bulletin Board

Do you have a theme song? Hers was “Time to Say Goodbye.”

Then & Now

Kathy S. of St. Paul writes: “In 2001, I was laid off by a large corporation in the first or second month of the Practice Recession. I was five or six years short of a full pension that would have been two or three times what I have, so I grieved for the much more secure financial future I might have had. I also grieved for my work friends, and for the science environment I worked in. It had taken me a few years to adjust to Guy World, but once I did, I missed it. And add to that the fact that the management tried to get me out by a sneak attack (because I was a woman, etc.), and it was truly a nasty situation. I lost 10 pounds in a handful of days, due to the stress.

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Where has Shirley Partridge been? And what has she been up to?

Our birds, ourselves

Booklady reports: “Our elusive partridge, Shirley, has been hiding since the end of May.
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Look! Up in the tree! It’s a groundhog! A woodchuck! A whistle-pig! A land-beaver!

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Including: Fun facts to know and tell

Another close encounter of the natural kind, reported by Al B of Hartland: “I spotted the groundhog high in a small tree. It wasn’t beating around the bush. It was eating the leaves of a mulberry tree. Groundhogs have a great appetite for those.

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What memories are made of: Fish Lake, “Boats, Bait and Beer,” Four Roses, Coca-Cola, Mom & Dad.

Now & Then

The Doryman of Prescott, Wisconsin: “I’m sitting on my balcony tonight, on the 3rd of July, 2017. I’m two stories up and 37 feet from the Mississippi River — but it’s not only this year, and not only this place. It’s also 1954. I’m 10 years old, in the back seat of a 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88, drinking the tops off Cokes. That’s what my folks did with their kid sometimes, back then.

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Here’s the man who kept us whole, from sea to shining sea!

Now & Then

Mounds View Swede writes again: “On our trip to Maryland and Washington, D.C., in 2009, I took more than cherry blossom photos; I also visited the major historical monuments.

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