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Ok this is my second attempt at producing this particular entry. I've screwed up, forgetting how to insert a video on my blog. I began writing only to be suddenly informed by Google that I wasn't signed in and having every thing I had written disappear. Over the last several months I have started 5 or 6 blogs and never finishing any of them. I guess I just ran out of blogging gas after about 10 years of blogging.

Anyway all is well here. It has been a hot and humid summer and I am looking forward to the fall. Of course I will soon be complaining about the cold. Still I couldn't live in a hot climate. Then there is watching what has happened with Florence. We've had hurricanes around here but it was never the disaster that those folks have had to live through. We will get what is left of Florence on Tuesday meaning a lot of rain. 

I don't know if this story made national news but about 20 or 25 miles north of here they had their own disaster. Three cities were rocked by gas explosions. Around 50 homes were destroyed and about 8600 homes have to be inspected as some people were told they could go back to their houses. They still won't have any gas service and I think electric service has been turned back on for some. These kind of situations are eye openers as we have gas service here and it makes you think, this kind of thing can happen anywhere. 

The city I live in was settled the same year as Boston, 1630. And as I was playing with my computer checking out various things about local history I found out that the street I went to high school, now condos, was on was part of what they called the highway to Boston which was established around 1630. That part of the street is residential and leads to the center of town. As you enter the square on the right hand corner is the former location of Simpsons Tavern where Jingle Bells was composed. I know I've mentioned that before, but it is still kind of neat to have that little historical tidbit locally. I walked passed the site and plaque every day on my way to high school and never paid attention to it. 

So Sunday morning I went out early. It was a beautiful sunny morning with very little traffic. I crudely taped my little camera to my dashboard and made, admittedly, what is a crappy little video. The first part was not part of the old highway but just a road I used to get to it. It's a lovely road with many beautiful homes ($$$) and I've always liked it. Once you go through the square you end up on another road that's not so picturesque. Auto dealerships, auto repair shops including a Jiffy Lube with J on their neon sign out so it looks like "iffy Lube". plumbing supply businesses etc. As you travel down this road you can see a bit of the Boston skyline but the sun was so bright that the distance view was washed out. But as I traveled down this road I went by our favorite local restaurant Raso's. You can get some really authentic Italian food there without having to go into Boston's North End (Boston's' little Italy). Ok this video is no academy award winner. It was something to do on a beautiful Sunday morning. 

  

 

 

 

So in other local news there have been several shark sightings two attacks, the last one being fatal. That occurred near the tip of Cape Cod. 

Well at this point I think I'll just hit the publish button and see what happens 

 

So that's about it for now. I have to get ready to go food shopping with Arlene. So for now, I am outta here.