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Happy Fifty-five Anniversary!
Today is our 55th anniversary. Little did I know that rainy Saturday night at the Westbury Bar in Philadelphia fifty-five years ago that I would still be living with the love of my life, Bill Kelly....
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How Was Your Fourth?
Another Fourth of July celebration has come and gone. How was yours?I worked at the hotel. Lewes, where I work, was packed with Fourth of July revelers. Luckily I found a parking spot at the hotel. I...
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How About A Day When Nothing Goes Wrong?
Lately we've been having a string of mishaps, failures, and mini disasters here at Casa Tipton-Kelly.Just yesterday, after Bill's iPad failed him (the battery is dying), I complained to Bill "I would...
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Carpet Installed!
Finally, we got our new wall to wall carpet installed in our media room. This has been a long, drawn out problem. To recap, last year I noticed a musty smell in our storage packed media room. Yes, I...
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Sweltering!
How's the weather where you are?We're sweltering here. Right now, at 4:45 PM the temperature outside if 98 degrees. The humidity I don't know but it feels like 100%. I can only stay outside a few...
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Still Sweltering!
The forecast for tomorrow is one hundred degrees. And that's not the heat index temperature, that IS the temperature. The humidity now is 53 percent. Feels like 90 percent. I'm housebound. I venture...
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Relief!
Today we finally got relief from the sweltering week long heat wave. Now I can breath. Now I can work outside. Not today though, a gentle rain fell all day. Early this morning we drove down to the...
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Back to the Heat
Has it been a week already since I last posted? Wow, just where does the time go? At this time of my life I forget most of what I've done the previous week. Heck, I forget what I id this morning.What...
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My New Favorite Movie Idol
When I was very young, ages ago, in the Fifties I used to go to the movies every Saturday matinee. Like any young gay boy of the Fifties (of which I was the only one of course) I had my movie idols....
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Blog Update - Where Have I Been?
Folks, I'm falling behind in my blog posts as perhaps regular followers of my blog have noticed.The reasons for my tardiness are many and myriad but the fact remains, that I'm having trouble keeping up...
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The Grass is Greener . . . . . . . .
My destroyed lawn after two chemical applicationsThe grass certainly isn't greener around here since I had a wire grass removal treatment almost two weeks ago. At the same time my lawn service company,...
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Lawn Service Failure
The new owner of my lawn care company taking pictures of my damaged lawn, this lawn here in front used to look like a green carpet. It's almost all mud and dead grass now.The owner of the lawn service...
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Lawn Disaster, I Was Right! Herbacide Burn.
My lawn before the grass was burned.Today a representative of another lawn service company came by (at my request) to evaluate my lawn. First thing he said upon getting out of his vehicle "What...
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Arrived In Canada!
Waiting for the flight that seemed like it was never going to take offHere I am in Canada! Today I begin my third day of my weeklong stay at my Canadian Travel Buddy's luxurious 14th floor condo in...
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Back Home From Canada!
Pat and I at the Relay coffee shop in downtown Hamilton, one of Pat's daily hangouts. They make a great mocha coffee!I'm back home from my annual weekly end of summer trip to Canada! Obviously I was...
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None of my quarterly adventures with Pat is complete without a fall. During my recent stay in Canada with my Canadian Travel Buddy Pat, I had a couple close calls but didn't actually fall until we...
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Another One Bits the Dust
John Hannum Tipton, U.S. Army Paratropper 1942One of the most significant things about being as old as I am is that I get to experience the loss (deaths) of so many folks I know. Oh sure, all during my...
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Howard's List
Friends Tommy, Howard and me a few years back at a reunion after thirty yearsTime for a new list folks! This one from my friend Howard of Laurel Delaware. CAN YOU FILL THIS OUT WITHOUT LYING?1. What...
View ArticleSlideshow of 2019 Annual Trip to Canada
Here it is folks! The slideshow you all have been waiting for, my annual trip to Canada to visit my friend Pat and his friends. I think this is my fifth annual trip. I always go at the end of summer....
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Ron Rides His Bike
Me, around 12 years old on my paper boy bike (the only picture I have of me on that sturdy bike) 1954My first bicycle ride was when I was about ten years old. My Mom got me a paperboy job and I needed...
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