Decorated

 Lazy Akers is ready for Santa to visit !  We have the front and back done and Tree is up and decorated !

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My Oldest Brother John, (rip) made this for me 25 years ago, it has traveled to a few places we lived and has been in storage since 2007 when we moved from next door at 31 Wilna Avenue to Senior Housing.

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Lights up out front of house, just see some on the Deck on the left side of the house and the Green GENERAC Generator light !

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The back Blue Spruce Tree all lit up and the Back Deck decorated !

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Inside, Tree up, Hallway decorated, now just have to wait for SANTA !!!!!

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If you want to take a Trip, stop by Jacks Page,  "Shipslog" and see some memories and pictures;   shipslog-jack.blogspot.com

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Don't Forget:    GO NAVY !!!!!  Game will be played in New York State at West Point !

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Dentist

Today was my Dentist Appointment, Got in the chair and had them scraped, dug at and cleaned.

Dentist came in and found a Cavity on lower back left side tooth and he drilled and drilled and got it fixed, above that tooth is a large cavity on rear Molar that can not be filled and needs an extraction !

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With my lips, tongue, cheek and eye frozen Dinner was Poached Eggs on soft Toast.  Easy to chew.

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I have to see Cardioligist to go off blood thinners for the tooth extraction and determine where to have it pulled !

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I can't wait on this Tooth Decay as it is dangerous to heart Patients so will be moving on this quickly !

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Mouth sore !  

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Stocking up

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LET US NEVER FORGET !

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Well we are ready for winter, we have stocked up pretty much so far, meat and Veggies and canned goods.

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We are loaded up, Onions hanging from rafters, shelves of  Soups, veggies, rice, beans, pasta, coffee, canned chicken, pork, beef, venison and ham all stored in the Basement Food Pantry !  The 6 brown Boxes are Emergence 5 day supply of meals,  Powdered Milk, Sugar Packs, crackers, oatmeal, grits, cream  of wheat, juice, power bars.  All good stuff !

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House Freezer is Full and ready !

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The Garage Freezer if full,  Beef, Pork, Lamb, Turkey, Fish, Chicken, Venison, Liver, Veggies.

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The Venison all packaged, vacumn sealed and Tipper is checking it out !

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Packing up Venison to take to Garage Freezer to find room for it, I didn't get a Big Buck but a nice good eating Doe filled 1 of my 2 Doe tags!   My Dad said you can not eat the Horns !!!!

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We have also stocked up on Bird Seed for our feathered friends !

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GO NAVY, BEAT ARMY !

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Decorating

 We are home from Church, I did a pretty good Job as Liturgist this Morning doing the Scripture Readings and other parts of the Morning Service, No One yelled...."Go Sit Down" !!!!

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We are Decorators, we both love Christmas, lights, tinsel and Mistletoe !!!

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The Christmas Tree is up, The decorations are on it, (Cat likes it) and hallway lights are up !

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My Honey taking a break from Decorating and Tipper has to make sure she Guards her !

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I got the Banner hung up, this is New this Year to add to our collection,  as this is the second year in our Old House we are enjoying it, even have the outside decorated !  Will do another post on those !

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Someone caught me on my "(reboot) from being Liturgist at Church this Morning and Decorating and getting rested up !

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This shows the difference in a matter of a couple days change in the weather.  But don't worry,  it will change back to White !!!

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The 12th is the Army Navy Game, 1 of the few Sports Games I watch but only because my friend at Church is a retired Lt. Col. and her and I love the kidding and jabs and this year it's being played right here in New York at West Point !

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Changes

Well, we went from 3-4 inches of Snow to back to Green Grass and just a few spots of Snow in areas.  Winds help take away the Snow along with the Rain.  I have noticed a decline in Birds at the Bird feeder, a few Cardinals, no Tuffed Titnouse, very few Goldfinches, but they are around as we hear them !

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Tomorrow is the Second Sunday of Advent and I am Liturgist, I do Announcements, Read Scripture and Offer Prayer,  We have a different Liturgist every Sunday from a list we maintain of about 6 -7 people.

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We had our Monthly  Police Retirees Lunch, at "High Noon" on Wednesday,  Great Time, lots of Laughs and some Stories of the Past, Abobe is Patrolman Pierce, Patrolman Manassa, Police Chief Goss, Deputy Chief Lytle, Crime Scene and Photographer Rutledge and Me.  This was at the Crystal Restaurant in downtown Watertown and taken back in February.

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Everyone above standing here after "High Noon Lunch" walked and Patrolled these streets 24 hours a day, 7 days a week issuing Parking tickets, Checking for unlocked doors, breaking up Bar Fights, Stopping in for a Coffee and Doughnut, stopping in and Talking with the Owners and workers in the Business, Checking on health and welfare of residents.

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Still smiling after all those tall tales and stories over lunch !

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This was back when their was Respect for the Blue !

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Summer of a few decades ago, Back in the "Old Uniforms" ! These White Shirts were worn from the start of the Police Force back in the 1800's,  was not unusual to ruin a shirt at the end of the shift from a bar fight or family fight, shirt would be torn, stained with blood or other matter, lucky the City replaced them and didn't take it out of our yearly Uniform Allowance !

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First man in the Front of our Squad in above picture for Riot Duty was me, I was Tall so that's where I went !

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I was President of the Watertown Police Benevolent Association, *(our Union) and pressed hard to change from the Long and short sleeved White Shirt to the Dark Blue, after much arguments from City Manager we were allowed the change, less Visable at Night time and safer.  Supervisors still wore White !

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Heading downtown to walk & patrol 1,2,4,6,10 Beat or Stand the American Corner.  The American Corner was manned 27/7 !

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. The People made the Job, good conversation with everyone, drunks, addicts, bums, the Mayor, anyone around always to stop and say hi to the Beat Cop, Great and enjoyable 8 or 12 hours !

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Desk Duty, 8PM until 4AM,   Lots of Dunkin Donuts Coffee, a Cigarette in the ashtray and right in between phone calls !

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Going Back a few years,  1974 !!!!

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Holiday Season

 Well, another Holiday is coming, Christmas in our now Old House as this is the second Christmas here !

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My Honey starting to put up our Old Tree,  We got it at Wally World a few years ago !  It's a nice prelit 6 foot tree, no needles to clean and pick up, no pitch, only thing different this year is we have the Cat, (Tipper) who we got the day after I got out of the St. Joseph's Cardiac unit Hospital Last December 27th.

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Tree put up but not decorated yet !

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My Job is changing and putting in new bulbs to replace the blown ones !

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Our first mutual gift was we bought a new SNOWJOE Snow Thrower, NOT a Snow Blower.

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We bought it to use on the back Deck and we are going to hire someone to Snow Blow the Driveway out !

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Our First major Snow Storm and we got about 3 inchs of Snow, My Honey likes to Shovel the front walk and does it as she says it is good exercise.

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I let her exercise but do keep my eyes on her !

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All Shoveled out, snug as a bug in a rug, food pantry full, Freezer almost full, just lacking Venison ! 

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Great Upside Down Dinner last night, we had Eggs, Jimmy Dean Sausage and Toast and then off to our Monthly Church Board Meeting of Trustees and Church Council !

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Stay Safe, Stay Healthy,  Glad to see Jack and Sherry got out "On The Road Again" in the Motor Home, Check them out at ....Shipslog (shipslog-jack.blogspot.com)

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