More snow then you can shake a stick at today!

Another Pleasant Valley Sunday, here in status symbol land.

Another Thanksgiving. We went to Fall River Mass. (Home of Lizzie Borden) to spend the holiday with my wife's family. Ate way to much! Dylan played video games, Claudine went black Friday shopping and I read a book. Novel Riven Rock by T.C. Boyle about schizophrenic Stanley McCormick the son of Cyrus who invented the farm reaper. Good read I would ( Read more... )

        Voted in the city election yesterday. My mayor the wonderful April Capone Almon won rather easily. Her opponent was a bland white male Republican who was not the type to generate much excitement. In fact most of the Mayors opposition came from the New Haven Register(A generation ago a great paper-now best used for toilet paper) which ran a ( Read more... )

Dylan & I both home sick today. We weren't feeling well over the weekend and overdid it on halloween. Easy to in my parents hood in Milford. Hundreds of kids out and every couple of houses has a cool display in their yard ( Read more... )

They cut off his foot!

Reading T.C. Boyle and getting ready to go to work.

 "If women had the vote, Ansonia would have sewers today" The views of a female citizen of town from the Ansonia Sentinel newspaper on May 15, 1909. Thanks to derbyhistorical.org.  If your interested in day to day life in the early part of the 20th century they're a great resource!

I plan to start writing on this again soon!

SNOW, WORK, CHRISTMAS