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Arrrgghhhh.
Summer is nearly over. It’s time to start wearing hard shoes again.
Tuck-in the shirt. Grab the backpack filled with books. Start working your way through the honey-do list.
It is time to contemplate the ballet of leaf collection, gutter cleaning
and sweaters.
All is not dreary however. Summer will hold on for a few more weeks.
Then the nights will get cooler.
The trees electrified by autumn’s touch.
Maybe a nice fire and smores in your future.
And, after all, that is a nice sweater.
We will, however, continue our ritual of trying to keep you modestly entertained, intrigued and
enlightened. If by nothing more than the most obtuse cultural references
we can find!
Enjoy September.
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For the Piano Man In All of Us | |
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Half-moon grand Art-Deco piano, with star-patterned veneer in figured maple, inlay banding in satinwood and ebony, produced by Strohmenger ca 1930
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Energy Kinetics System 2000 | |
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Now is the time to think propane for your home.
For home heating.
Endless hot water.
Toasty evenings by the fire – inside or out!
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Propane Fireplace Heaters For The Home | |
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Daniels has a huge selection of high efficiency propane (and oil) heating systems, furnaces, boilers, tankless water heaters and assistance in installing propane fireplaces inside and out.
We have the best brands – Energy Kinetics, Rinnai, Trane, Mitsubishi Electric, Thermopride, Air Temp and all at competitive prices.
Plus – great financing options – with installation in September and October before the new heating season starts.
Thinking upgrades? Let Daniels Do It!
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But Why Do They Smell So Nice? | |
THIS - you didn't know. Right? | |
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Up until 1948, 7UP put Lithium in their soda. For those unaware, it is a mood stabilizer. And it is very much in use today. (Though not in 7-Up)
It took the “ouch” out of grouch.
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In case you missed our very first podcast – click here for a listen.
David and John will be recording our next episode in a few days and we will launch it on Thursday Sept.15. You’ll be able to find the link on our
home page.
We’d very much like your feedback. Tell us here if there are things you’d like to hear more about and we’ll address them in future episodes.
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Calling Him "Woody" Would Be Unfair | |
Jop van Driel is a versatile artist who combines conceptual talent with incredible craftsmanship. Really need to see his site. | |
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“My daily work is modelling with wood. When I make something I am aware of the resistance of the wood. The wood does not want to be shaped like I have in mind.
A tree wants to be a tree and not a staircase or a statue. Every day I am busy ‘taming’ the wood just like taming a horse. When you have been working with a natural material as long as I’ve been doing it and recognize its unbelievable beauty, you just can’t help getting tremendously much awe for nature.”
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Diesel and the Budget Question | |
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We wanted to remind you that when you see the price of diesel fuel – the one that trucks use everyday – you are essentially seeing the price of fuel oil.
It is virtually the same product.
Yes, diesel – and fuel oil – prices have dropped but not as dramatically as gasoline. Again it’s squeezed supply and increasing demand for diesel. So this fall, perhaps consider a budget for the heating season.
Why budget?
Well, clearly prices are significantly higher than last year. So your total cost for fuel oil will no doubt be higher than it was last year.
For example, if you use 700 gallons during a heating season at $4.50 per gallon, on average, your total expenditure would be $3,150. With a 12-month budget – beginning in September - you’d pay approximately $263 a month.
Without a budget plan – and if you use say 20% of your fuel oil in each of Dec – Jan – Feb – those months the cost could be as high as $630-700 each.
September is the last chance for a new 12-month budget, so give us a call today. Sorta…makes sense, no?
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John Scopes
The ACLU found John Scopes by running a newspaper ad seeking a teacher willing to test the law about teaching human evolution in the classrooms of Tennessee. From the May 4, 1925, edition of the Chattanooga Times:
We are looking for a Tennessee teacher who is willing to accept our services in testing this law in the courts. Our lawyers think a friendly test case can be arranged without costing a teacher his or her job. Distinguished counsel have volunteered their services. All we need now is a willing client.
Scopes wasn’t a biology teacher but had filled in for one using a textbook that accepted evolution, and that was enough to set the “monkey trial” moving forward.
Strangely, the disputed textbook was the one that Tennessee required its high school teachers to use that year. Clarence Darrow later quipped in his autobiography, “It seems strange that the Dayton school board did not adopt the first and second chapters of Genesis as a modern textbook on biology.”
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The great “Donut Dialogue” has concluded. 47 votes in. Flanders of East Lyme was the clear winner, though multiple votes for Beach in Clinton and Neil’s in Middletown, Marlborough County Baking and Blazing Fresh in Guilford were recorded.
One person – we’re not naming names – suggested that deBoers bakery on Main Street in HOLLAND, MICHIGAN was number one. We honor his selection with this mention.
Thank you all for participating. I’ve gained six pounds trying to see who’s right.
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Ticket to Paradise
George Clooney! Julia Roberts! A tropical locale! What’s not to love? Clooney and Roberts play a bitter divorced couple who travel to Bali together in an effort to stop their daughter’s own shotgun wedding.
Could this ill-advised misadventure possibly rekindle their feelings for each other? Nah, no way! It gives off strong Mamma Mia vibes, and that’s even before you learn it’s directed by the same guy who helmed the sequel.
In theaters Oct. 21
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Blonde
Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe and Bobby Cannavale plays an “ex-athlete,” who bears a more than passing resemblance to Joe DiMaggio, in this biopic based on Joyce Carol Oates’ novel.
From the look of its trailer, the movie seems to follow Marilyn in her various incarnations, from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” through the Hollywood legend’s final photo session, taken on a beach. It’s written and directed by Andrew Dominik, who made “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” a movie that, in its own way, was also about the dangers of superstardom.
Streaming on Netflix starting Sept. 28.
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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Movie
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Daniel Craig, Jessica Henwick, Dave Bautista
Knives Out was a huge hit for Rian Johnson, and the next film in this new series arrives this November on Netflix. Plot details are under wraps, but Daniel Craig is returning as detective Benoit Blanc. Surely, there will be a mystery he needs to solve.
Streaming on Netflix in Nov.
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Catherine, Called Birdy
Lena Dunham wrote and directed this adaptation of the mediaeval children’s novel. Game of Thrones’ Bella Ramsey is the titular 13th-century teenage aristocrat resistant to her father’s desire to marry her off to a wealthy suitor, who finds several ingenious ways to thwart his plans.
While some readers likely stopped reading after seeing the name ‘Lena Dunham’, the film appears quite sassy and charming.
Streaming on Amazon Prime Oct 7
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TÁR
Writer-director Todd Field (In the Bedroom, Little Children) returns after 15 years in the wilderness with this drama about an acclaimed orchestra conductor, played by Cate Blanchett.
In normal circumstances, Blanchett in a serious character study would be the headline, but given that Field was one of Hollywood’s buzziest directors before his decade-and-a-half break, there are many reasons to get excited here.
In theaters Oct 7
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Amsterdam
It’s no exaggeration to say David O Russell’s ‘30s crime caper has the most loaded cast of any film this year. Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington are three friends who become embroiled in some kind of government conspiracy.
Robert De Niro, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Timothy Olyphant, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Zoe Saldaña, Rami Malek and Taylor Swift are all in it as well. If LeBron James, Abraham Lincoln and Bob Hope, himself, also have cameos, we won’t be surprised.
In theaters Nov 4
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‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
Given his track record, any film by Martin McDonagh (“In Bruges,” “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri”) is worth watching. His latest brings him back to his familiar Irish milieu and stars Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson.
The story concerns two friends who experience and abrupt falling out when one decides he no longer likes the other. Knowing McDonagh, that probably marks the beginning of a war.
In theaters starting Oct. 21.
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She’s soooo funny. So talented. So amazing. So…who is she? Tell us here and you may win one of those very coveted $25 Amazon gift cards.
Winners from last month include Marianne R and Kathy C who recognized Saorise Ronan and the amazing Julia M who solved the trick question regarding the goat, cabbage and the wolves and the need to get them all across the river.
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This is a land-art fresco created with biodegradable paint made of charcoal, chalk, water, and milk proteins, by French-Swiss artist Saype.
It covers Copacabana beach as part of the artist's worldwide project titled "Beyond Walls," in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 15, 2022.
The artist said he is creating a symbolic human chain around the world with the aim of promoting togetherness, kindness, and openness in the world. Could we use more of that…or what?
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Introducing Eurypterids.
They were an order of arthropods that were completely wiped out by the world’s biggest mass extinction. They were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.
10 feet. 10 foot scorpions.
Just wanted to leave you with that.
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This newsletter is a place for good clean fun.
Except when we have to talk about ducts! They can be filthy – especially if you haven’t cleaned yours in 4-6 years. Or 10 years. Or…ever.
Or if the people you bought your home from NEVER cleaned them.
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There are all sorts of mites, dust bunnies, allergens, dander, dog and cat hair, Cheerios, spider webs and who knows what.
Check your floor registers, run a finger on the inside – and you’ll know….
If you haven’t cleaned your ducts since the first week of the Obama presidency – please, for the sake of your health – call us today.
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We’re making this so freakin’ easy that it doesn’t even seem fair. To us!
OK, this guy is everyone’s favorite villain – and hero – who is he? Tell us here and you may win a shiny new Amazong gift card.
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These foods are sure to improve your metabolism. What you do with an improved metabolism is entirely up to you.
METABOLISM BOOSTING FOODS
1. Cocoa 11 Beans
2. Water 12 Almonds
3. Blueberries 13. Apples
4. Flax 14. Egg whites
5. Sweet Potato 15. Soybeans
6. Avocado 16. Lemon
7. Tomato 17. Ginger
8. Yoghurt 18. Brussel Sprouts (yeah, but…)
9. Cinnamon 19. Spinach
10. Garlic 20. Olive Oil
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