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Monday, September 30, 2024

Vaccine Drones

We just got our flu and covid vaccines. Then when we were driving home, drones were following us. Well, a drone was following me. Bill Gates was on a bicycle following my son. But we are both in the same car.

Sunday, September 29, 2024

Baked Apples

Baked Apples... cooked 5 minutes per side on hot grill. Cinnamon and honey for flavor.

New Novel Coming Soon

Life got busy, so it's taken awhile, but I'll have a new novel out soon. I'm still editing...

Link to my Amazon Author Page

http://www.amazon.com/Kevin-J.-Curtis/e/B004SBGR7W/

Link to my Barnes and Noble Author Page

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Kevin%20Curtis

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Raptor Release 2024

We attended the UMN Raptor Center bird release at Carpenter Nature Center today.

Friday, September 27, 2024

Early Voting

I early voted today. I believe in the secrecy of the ballot, so I'm not going to say who I voted for president. However, I did NOT vote for anyone who lies about pretty much everything and wants to be a fascist dictator.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

It was that step there...

It was that step there, that changed everything!

Friday, September 20, 2024

I'll Vote In-person

I'm not going to vote by mail. The post office just sent me a piece of envelope with my return address that also had my credit card company's name on the inside piece of the envelope. Apparently they destroyed my payment for my credit card. The 45th president worked hard to ruin the postal service, to prevent poor people from voting--and this election is important enough so I will go vote in-person to make sure my vote counts.

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Acorn Squash

It was time to pick these beauties because the stems had dried up. There was one more but it was rotten on the bottom.

Lies About Immigrants is Not New

This was a new coworker when I was at the Minnesota Historical Society--just before Covid-19 and mass layoffs. Targeting immigrants with such bogus, emotional stories is nothing new.
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Important to Remember, Presidential Quotes

George Washington
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company."

Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

James Monroe
"It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future."

Andrew Jackson
“An man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”

John Tyler
“I can never consent to being dictated to.”

Millard Fillmore
"An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory."

Franklin Pierce
"While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles."

Theodore Roosevelt
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

Harry S. Truman
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”

Jimmy Carter
“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”

Donald Trump
“They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats, they're eating the pets, of the people that live there.”

Friday, September 13, 2024

A Hike

I worked hard to get all of my stuff done this week, so that I could have an hour to myself to go hiking when I finished with work today.