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Almost American
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After 23 years in the United States, I find myself more American than I ever expected to be, yet not so American in many ways.
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So nice to know that the Post Office cares!
From Almost American, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The US Post Office is in financial trouble and in an attempt to save money is hoping to end certain Saturday deliveries. I have had my issues with them - letters from the other side of the state taking 10 days or more to arrive here for example. (Yet small packages marked 'Surface Mail' regularly arrive from the UK in under a week!) It seems they are trying hard to keep our business though. Today we received a damaged piece of mail that was wrapped in a plastic bag:Can you see through the...
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Stay Dench!
From Almost American, 5 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I was watching the Graham Norton show last night and heard the phrase "Stay Dench!" for the first . . . no . . . second time. The first time I heard it was on the same show last week when someone in The Red Chair was wearing a Stay Dench shirt. Graham asked him what it meant, and the bloke wearing it didn't know. This week, Graham started by saying that his entire couch this week was 'Dench.' I love that a 78 year-old lady has become synonymous with cool! She said she's going to buy her family...
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Lockdown
From Almost American, 5 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I don't think school children in the UK practice 'lockdowns' the way they do over here. Just like we practice evacuating the building in case of a fire, we practice what we would do in case some loony with a gun came into the building. Of course, in the case of a real fire things are never so organized as they are when we drill. And I always imagined that in the case of a loony with a gun, things wouldn't go so smoothly either.Every time we do a practice lockdown at school I wonder how useful...
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Thanksgiving survivors
From Almost American, 6 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I see this flock of wild turkeys regularly on my drive to work. I'm often halfway past before I even notice them. Occasionally I have to slow down or even stop to let them cross the road. This morning they caught my attention a little sooner because the one nearest the camera was up in that small tree - small tree, big bird! By the time I hopped out of my car to take the photo, s/he was back on the ground.
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Frankenstorm
From Almost American, 6 month ago, Read 1 times. Similar articles
About this time last year we were looking at this map:We ended up losing power for 'only' two days - we had friends who lost power for over a week! Today we have this:Here's hoping they're scaremongering, but knowledgeable people are taking it very seriously! I'm sure if we wanted to buy a generator we're too late already, but I'm heading out now to gas the car up, get some cash and do some (non-perishable) food shopping.?
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Masked bandits at night
From Almost American, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I blogged recently about how DH and DD have been handfeeding the chipmunks in our yard. Not surprisingly, the local wildlife seems to have decided that our property is restaurant central. We came home the other day and found a chipmunk inside the bird feeder that hangs in the tree outside the front door! The squirrels have claimed the feeders hanging from the back deck. They get very frustrated with the thistle seed feeder because the openings are so small, but it doesn't stop them from...
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27 years
From Almost American, 9 month ago, Read 5 times. Similar articles
I just realized tonight that I forgot to change the header for this blog back in August - the anniversary of my arrival in the USA. It's been 27 years now. I've lived here more than half my life. Most of my life. I'm still not sure that I can really grasp that. And last week, someone I had just met randomly asked me to say "schedule". When I asked why, she commented that she had noticed my accent.? More than half my life in the USA and I still don't sound American!
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The Olympics opening ceremony
From Almost American, 10 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I didn't get to see the opening ceremony on Friday (but I've heard lots about it and read about it) because I spent most of the evening driving my daughter to an event 70 miles away, waiting for her, and then driving her back. Of course, by the time we set off, the ceremony had already been underway for almost an hour, but we hadn't been able to watch any of it because the American broadcaster, NBC, was making everyone wait until prime time in the evening to see it (and BBC's iPlayer won't work...
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Ice cream flavors
From Almost American, 10 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I've blogged in the past about an unusual icecream flavor available locally. Here's the board listing the flavors available at an icecream parlor in downtown Bar Harbor. Do you see any unusual ones'
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