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It is that time of year when our neighborhood has this delicious Gem Tomato stand run by our neighbors and friends the Millers. We brought home several to eat fresh.

Gem Tomatoes for Sale stand with colorful painted table holding boxes of tomatoes priced at 2.50 per pound donating 100 percent of proceeds to charity. Cardboard boxes of heirloom tomatoes at an outdoor farm stand with a chalkboard sign reading Heirloom Black Krim

This is the same tomato stand that is in our Land of Things puzzle.

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I was curating my On This Day section this morning and found this 15 year old reference to @bjhess! One of my favorite things about blogging is the long history that you can create. Thanks for the Brightkite invite Barry! 🤣

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Capturing the Micro.blog plugins I’m using now:

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We had a fun night doing a Murder Mystery Dinner and I decided to really embrace my character. “Little Fitz is a vaudevillian star of the Music Halls of Europe, where his ventriloquist act with Ziggy has proven very popular.”

Ziggy and I may have future appearances. 🤣

Smiling man in pink pants, striped shirt, and red bow tie holds a ventriloquist dummy wearing a matching bow tie, indoors. Man in checkered shirt and red bow tie holding a ventriloquist dummy dressed in matching gingham jacket and red bow tie
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It was great to see Steve Earle tonight at the Dakota on his “Alone Again” tour. Just him and his guitars sharing a wide array of songs from his catalog.

Bearded musician with glasses plays acoustic guitar solo on a small stage before a seated crowd in a dimly lit venue Bearded guitarist performing solo on a small stage at Dakota jazz club, lit in blue and purple, with an audience seated behind him.
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It was awesome to hear Zandi Holup open up for Steve Earle tonight. She played a good set of original songs but unfortunately none of them are published yet.

Blonde woman in a long floral dress playing acoustic guitar at a microphone on a dimly lit stage at Dakota jazz club.
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Mazie posted her first blog post about her photo walk in Soglio, Switzerland. She has her own micro.blog site for easy publishing. 🎉

She is a fabulous writer so I’m hoping she will share her talents with the world.

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POAP 6747546 at BPEL DECOMP.

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Allergies hit me hard today. Medicine didn’t seem to do much. Feels like something different than typical ragweed. Tammy also got it bad and she usually doesn’t have allergies that bad. 😬

Update: Allergies drove me to buy an air purifier from Amazon for delivery tomorrow. Haven’t tried air purifiers before but many say they work wonders.

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We decided to return to Switzerland tonight by watching the 2015 release of Heidi. I hadn’t seen the movie and wasn’t familiar with the story and thought it was fun to watch, and I loved the role the Alps played in it.

Movie poster for Heidi showing a barefoot girl leaping joyfully on an Alpine meadow with a boy and older man behind her