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Oct 31 2011

Fire awareness

by Mary Anne

If I recall correctly, October is fire safety awareness month. At least it used to be! I can remember when I was a child in elementary school the teacher had her students print letters to Smokey the Bear in October, and we would be so excited when we got answers from him!

I found myself thinking about that when I was doing a CBT today at work about the proper storage and disposal of different materials. To be perfectly honest, I never even gave it a second thought about how there might be chemicals at work that would need to be stored in flammable lockers.

When I stop to think about how many liquids and solvents are flammable, I’m amazed that there isn’t some kind of building code that requires every house to have Flammable Cabinets in their garages and pantries!

I wonder how many house fires would be prevented if the homeowners kept their flammable liquids in the proper Flammable Cabinet Storage.

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Oct 27 2011

Eyes

by Mary Anne

A few years ago my brother had his eyes “done” with Lasik, and he has been encouraging me to have my eyes “done.”  The biggest reason I haven’t had them “done” was the cost factor – my insurance won’t cover it. 

However, with the thought in mind that my eyeglasses are getting more expensive every time I buy them, I have been giving serious thought to Lasik surgery, as I think that eventually the cost factor will end up being a mute point!

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Oct 12 2011

Publicity Chairperson

by Mary Anne

I was pleased when I was asked to become the publicity chairperson for the local Newcomers club. When I asked what the responsibilities of that position were, I was told that I would be in charge of designing the brochures and fliers for the club, as well as placing newspaper and radio ads for the club. In addition I created a website for the club. I was told I would be given free reign to be as creative as I could be in regards to publicizing the club.

So the first thing I did was to design a new brochure and flyer. I started to do some comparison prices for brochure printing to see if it would be less expensive to print them at the local office store or send them off to a place like the Superfine Printing Company. The club president asked me to simply print them as color copies off of my own printer and then manually fold them up but I told her that the ink for my printer was prohibitive and I didn’t want to have to manually fold them myself.

Right about that same time the president came down with some health issues and had to step down as the president and leave the club. The new president of the club decided that she wanted to micro-manage every part of the club and suddenly everything that I had done was subjected to her nit-picking and directions to change things around and do everything “her way.” It wasn’t too long before I just decided that I had more pressing things to do with my time than to kow-tow to her every whim and I resigned from the club myself.  I heard that a couple of weeks later that new president was asked to step down and leave the club as well, and I was asked to rejoin the club. By then I had such a sour taste in my mouth from the club I declined. I don’t know if I’ll ever rejoin the club or not.

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Oct 8 2011

Wine country

by Mary Anne

I never used to think of this area as wine country, but lately there have been a lot of vineyards popping up all over the place. I have not gone to all of the vineyards to sample their wine, but I have been to a few of them and taken advantage of their sampling bargains.

Seems as if now, more than ever, the friends and neighbors are giving each other the gift of wine for a gift giving occassion. More of my friends are keeping their wines in vino temp beverage coolers to keep them at their best flavor. To be honest, I’ve never paid too much attention to which wine should be served at what temperature, but as I become more knowledgable about the different types of wines, I’ve started to becom interested in looking at the different vino temp wine coolers to see if there is a vino temp cooler that is nice looking and within my budget.

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Oct 6 2011

Get the mail

by Mary Anne

This evening I had the chance to get reaquainted with a lady that I had not seen in about fifteen years. We were talking about a few things we had in common with each other – we had both spent some time living in Maine. So we were talking about the small towns we lived in – she lived in Winter Harbor, and I lived in Belgrade. Both towns were very sparsely populated in the winter, but were full of tourists in the summer.

One of the things we were talking about was about how it was a major ordeal just getting to the mailbox everyday. Especially in the winter time – the snow plows always plowed in the rural mailboxes or knocked them over when they drove by.

There was a lucrative market selling rural residential mailboxes in Maine – especially the ones that were advertised as plow-proof. When I lived in Maine, I had a post office box so I didn’t have that problem. The post office was not open twenty four hours, though, so we had to make sure to go get the mail during certain hours. When I was working full-time, that meant I went to pick up the mail once a week because I couldn’t get there when they were open. There’s a price to pay when you live in the country!

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