2026:SEPTEMBER

September 3

on the tape deck

Andrew Dice Clay

Andrew Dice Clay

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Chopin Preludes Dezso Ranki

Chopin preludes

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Frankie Goes to Hollywood- Welcome to the pleasuredome

Frankie-

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Jungle shoes and fish wrap

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Wild at Heart

Wild at Heart

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September 6

Crescent moon high in the  sky 5am. Rosy pre dawn horizon in the rain at 6:10am. welcome to Cape Cod. Still shaky from my too brisk walk in said rain. That is a cresscent as my Nikon sees it

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September 9

I cannot even take and clear photo up  close.

so how about the woman who spied the Wheel of Fortune announcer on a flight looking at what appeared to be a child porn chat room on his laptop. She took photos. I want her eyesight and her camera. He was suspended. But they still have not released the Epstein files LOL

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Woke at 4 to the stench of what smelled like a huge pile of dog diarrhea. The air was still. Breeze came through at 11am. Makes me cranky. Fresh air should  be the norm. Incense helped little.

I woke from a  dream this morning (during that stench) I was dreaming of men in the water at Ryder's Cove, retrieving logs. They were naked, lots of them and when they came out of the water they were completely naked. I remember looking at their crotches and it was smooth skin on all of them. I can't even dream right.

But my sauteed apples turned out perfect at lunchtime!

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Cassettes on deck-Debbie Harry

Blondie RockBird

Debbie Harry Rockbird

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DeFalla

Love the Magician

de Falla

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September 10

pursued product problems today. Mozzarella sticks impossible to pull open and the Ivory soap being broken.

oh the hoops I had to jump through. and no email all done online. Ivory offered a coupon. I had to exxplain being homebound and coupons do not work on Shaw's fresh pass.

The mozzarella asked for photos same as Ivory. always fun so we will see how this goes.

back to the tape deck!

Eddie Murphy- faggots revisited LOL

Faggo6ts revisited

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Horowitz

Bach Busoni

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Jethro Tull  a Passion Play

passion play

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September 11

My Daily Bitchin

I suspect factory workers have one pile of decent items and another pile of rejects.When filling a bag they alway choose at least one of the rejects. I used to like Melissa produce.  But even that company has sunk to the usual poor quality of goods we see nowadays. There used to be a select few of purple, red and gold potatoes in the mix. no more. Maybe done by a robot with an attitude. The wet inside of the grocery bag clued me in to the "rotten" potato.

Submitted my Ivory Soap and Galbani Mozzarella  complaints yesterday. we will see how that goes.

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Gypsy Airs

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September 13

a facebook friend just posted from a diary she kept in 1948- it triggered many memories that I share here.

I was exactly 6 months old when you started on that trip, my cousin Charlotte in Rhode Island was exactly one year old. I traveled the Pennsylvania Turnpike at 10 and after many times after from Drexel Hill PA to Pittsburgh. We spent our Saturdays and Sundays in the car going places. We counted cows and noted licence plates from different states. We had a porto potty in the back seat for me. I had to pee all the time. My mother said all she would see on our rides was the top of my head. I felt car sick most of the ride so was told to look in the distance. My brother who was 4 years younger would brush my hair.. I remember the tunnels and the violent thunderstorms ( I loved those). We drove by a car dealership and I loved the one car I saw that was purple and black, a DeSooto. When I talked about it , which was often, my father's grandmother thought that car was morbid.

Seeing a barn with a colorful swastika ( paunted before it was a Nazi symbol) was impressing. Pittsburgh smelled to me.

I remember Allegheny Mountain.

Receently I have followed people on youtube who hike and drive in Pennsylvania- I am constanly impressed with the wide open spaces and how green it is and the mountains.

We moved to Cape Cod in 1961 and road trips ended, then my father deserted us in 1964. I am glad to live in Massachusetts now but it took a lot of "getting used to" .

Thank you Rosalie for sharing you diary. I would have kept one on our rides but that would have made me car sick. LOL

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I recently found a diary I wrote in 1948 when I was 10, about a trip my parents and my sister and I made in the car to visit my father's mother. 

Title: The longest trip I'v taken in the car

Someone has typed up what I wrote - in some cases retaining my spelling

The first actual day of the trip, I wrote

"June 20, 1948, Sunday

Today was the day we were to leave. Mother and Father had done most of the packing the night before in spite of the rain. I woke up at 6:30 and found Mother and Father just getting up." [I was an early bird. Unlike my sister who was a night owl and always hard to wake up in the morning] "I helped around the house, and after breakfast got into the car. We left about 9;10. Our cars mileage when we started was 3636.8. We descovered we had left some thing and had to go back to get it. When we started out again it was about 9:20. Along the way we saw a lot of brown cows and a white one. Everywhere we saw people going to church. We saw some chickens also. We saw a wheat field about ready to cut, but as mother said, "If they can get it dry enough to cut it" We saw a white horse and a lot of dogs."

[Before interstates, there was always something to look at or count. We had endless contests. Red barns. Cows. and of course colors of cars. See a white horse and you made a fist, licked it, kissed it, stamped it, and you would have good luck.]

"We saw a farmer feeding his hogs. We saw a billy goat, 2 cats and some hourses. 1 cat was in a field. About 10:35 we got hungrey and had a cookie. Then we started climbing mountains. The views were beautiful.

After we got to the Penn. Turnpike we went through 2 tunnels. The first was Blue Mountain. The 2nd was Kittanny. We saw something that mother said was a power line. Then we went through Tuscarora Mountain. When we came out we saw another mountain in the distance. It looked like a pyramid. We went around it though. We stopped awhile and had lunch. I ate 3 pieces of chicken, 3 glasses of milk, a piece of bread, and 1 piece of fudge. We saw licences of many kinds. They are recorded in the other book. We also saw two trucks carrying hogs. We then went through Sideling Hill and Rarp Hill. Alleghey Mountain was next and then Laurel Hill. In between tunnels there were many beautiful scenes. I took a nap and we were off the turnpike when I awoke."

When I read the names of the tunnels we went through, I was confused. I did not realize that originally, the Pennsylvania Turnpike had 7 tunnels. Only four of them remain today. That was the reason I could not find some of those tunnels on the current map. This is from Wikipedia on the topic.

When the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened in 1940, it was known as the "Tunnel Highway" because it traversed seven tunnels: These tunnels were originally built as part of the South Pennsylvania Railroad. From east to west they were, Blue Mountain, Kittatinny Mountain, Tuscarora Mountain, Sideling Hill, Rays Hill, Allegheny Mountain, and Laurel Hill. There was one tunnel through each mountain, and the highway was reduced to a single lane in each direction through each tunnel. Here is a photo of what Laurel Hill Tunnel looked like back when we went through it in 1948. There were only two lanes - one in each direction

The Turnpike now has only 4 tunnels. They are Blue, Kittatinny, Tuscarora and Allegheny mountain tunnels. Sideling Hill is now a rest stop on Interstate 76 in Western Maryland.

We do not have any photos of these tunnels or the beautiful scenes that I documented between them.

The first photos I have are of a place in Pennsylvania called Eighty-Four.

I do not know why we stopped in Eighty-Four. Maybe just because it was the reverse of the year 1948. Eighty Four was originally named Smithville. Due to postal confusion with another town of the same name, its name was changed to "Eighty Four" on July 28, 1884. In spite of what the sign said it was not named in honor of Grover Cleveland's 1884 election as President of the United States, because that occurred after the town was named.

Maybe the town was named after the year the town's post office was built, by a postmaster who "didn't have a whole lot of imagination"

Continuing with my diary:

"We next went through Pitt [I think I just couldn't spell Pittsburgh] We saw Fort Pitt and went in. We saw some oil drills, and stopped in a filling station. We had then gone 3909. I got a lemon coconut ice cream cone. We rode until 8 p.m. Then our mileage was 3075.1. We stopped at a park and had dinner. This time I ate 2 pieces of chicken and 2 glasses of milk. I ate 2 fig newtons and 2 pieces of fudge for desert. We saw some sheep newly sheered on which we could see the brands. One of them was ready to have babies. We were in Ohio now and we had gone through the panhandle of West Virginia and Pennsa. from Maryland. In the evening the sunset was beautiful.

We arrived in [blank, but it was Elyria] at about 10:00 p.m. The mileage when we got to Ruth Ellen's house was 4056.7. [419.9 miles average speed about 33 mph] They did not have their furniture yet so we had to sleep on the floor in the sleeping bags. They rented rooms elsewhere. We spent a pleasant night in sleeping bags." [Ruth Ellen was the daughter of friends of my parents. We were saving money by staying with friends or relatives or camping.

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Saturday the 12th I was out on the deck and noticed a car parked in "my spot". I do not have a vehicle but that is where my sidewalk begins  and delivery people pause there. I did not recognize it until later when I saw DelRoy grab a barrel and a rake. He was below for the whole day. Not once was I able to catch him to say "Hi". Sad about that as I miss him. So on my walk this morning to do my rounds I checked the sides of the building and the utility path. lo and behold DelRoy had cleared all of that. It was dense with overgrowth for over a year.

Now it is a rainy Sunday and cleaning the parking lot. yay! rain.

pix:

someone against article 9 on gun control

my 2 year collection of cardboard boxes broken down.

last of the 2026 garden and a soaking sudsy bird bath some birds love!

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2026:AUGUST

 wow I sure "ate my feelings" since my brother died in July 2025. I caught a glimpse of myself out of the shower yesterday.. Never had a girly figure but I gasped. No more bread with each meal among other things. I made a list guidelines. So after mentally beating mysewlf up I listened to this on the turntable. Feeling more positive now Seriously.

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Beatles-Rubber Soul

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The Best of 1966

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Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Rocky Horror Show

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Steve Martin- Comedy Isn't Pretty

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Steve Martin - Let's Get Small

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Beatles-Revolver. My favorite graphics

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Bread tag date closer-

Received this in my food order. Way past the sell by date. The store refunded the amount. But I saw no mold and it still smelled fresh. I ate one piece. I felt guilty about it AND saw myself after a shower and the shape my body has taken. So not I do not need that bread. New rules.

some garden shots from the end of July

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August 24

Cassette on the deck

Melissa Etheridge

Am I the only One

The Geto Boys

the f word put to music

Choice

more raunchiness but I loved it back in the 90s

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then @ Live Jews a take off on 2 live crew comedy parody

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Aug 24

not a clear photo and I forget the name of the flower. I think it is a vibe that showed up this year after an absense of a few years It used to be more fragrant.

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August 28

food order had this fruit cup in it today. I was not charged for it and alerted Shaw's to it in case someone missed it LOL It found a good home with Chelsea & Rob. I have a kiwi and blueberry allergy and iffy with strawberries. But it looked so refreshing!

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August 26

bath chair showed up

Saga of the bath chair. Arrived with no instructions in a box big enough to hold an old fashion tv set from the 60s a washer and a nut with no where to go. That will be researched at a later date. Old one with purple feet to be retired

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August 19

I vowed to stop playing connections if this persisted. Not only was computer screen pink & green but the game had colored squares. Thank  goodness that stopped and computer cleared up too.

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sea gull calling

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August garden bountiful pink!

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August 28

moon was dark orange on the horizon my camera did not see that but I did it was gorgeous.. still impressive

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August 28

I complained over as year ago about metal things hanging from telephone wires out front. Noticed they were finally fixed!

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Drying  Queen anne's lace for Paula

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Having painful hand issues and ordered a Kindle Cover promised to fit gen 11. not it falls out and the hand strap is too tight. Applied for a refund- return and the usual problem- I do not drive Whole Foods returns and do not have a printer for the label for other waya. to be continued

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August 26-28

4 trucks and I think 8 men showed up to hot mix patch the area around the new cesspool lid. When they finished they used the pylon I had by the white van to mark where food delivery area was and also to alert me when walking that there was an object sticking out to trip on. I switched that out the next day with a pylon from Jer's pile and moved the GDM one back to the white van trailer. I went below today the 30th and checked I was not seeing thigs from last night- the pylon os gone and no where in sight.

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August 30

On the tape deck

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