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Village scene

We went to a couple of markets on Hwy. 107 yesterday. The roadsides were ablaze in autumn colors as wildflowers put on their best show trying to compete with brilliantly painted and inked soda and beer cans and plastic snack bags and wrappers which adorned the green ditches. Carolyn got herself some turnips and yellow squash and got me a jar of pear honey. I was going to buy a watermelon but the proprietor told us we could have a couple free of charge as there are few left this late in the season and they were small. This particular market will close soon for winter and don’t have much variety left. They do have taters and will have more sweet corn on Thursday. The other market will probably stay open until Halloween, speaking of which Carolyn bought Sammy his first punkin to decorate. I made some more photos from the car, but nothing very interesting. I may plague you blog readers with a few of them this week.
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Some economists are now saying that the U.S. is into the second part of its double-dip recession. They must be speaking about the well to do folks out there; us peons haven’t been able to get any kind of foothold but have continuously slid farther into a seemingly endless nightmare. I am hearing mixed thoughts about a raise for Social Security recipients in 2012. Some say there will be none while some say there will be a small one of one or two percent, and others say there may be as much as three and one-half percent increase. Most agree that whatever there is, if any, will be eaten by higher Medicare premiums. If there is no increase in our checks, we will once more lose money to Medicare just as we did last year. We will know in mid-October. Do any of you have a preferred brand of dog food for we Americans geezers to eat?
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Carolyn got a bit of good news for a change; one of her customers is expanding his business and wants her to clean more office space for him. It will help some but will not make up for the two customers she is losing at the end of this month. For the first time ever, she is looking at a very good possibility of laying off one of her people who has been with her for 13 years.
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Thanks to Jola for the photo of a small gallery in the scenic village of Kazimierz Dolny, Poland. Cities seem to exist for the sake of existing whereas villages exist for people.
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I placed my edited story The Hunter on Brasstacks and will leave it there for a few days. There may be minor future edits but as of now the story has 3938 words. Thirty more stories of this length and I will have enough to publish a respectable length book; I better get busy.
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A blessed Wednesday to all of you!