Only a Picture Stops Time

 November 7, 2007 Hillary in Peterborough, NH - Nov 7, 2007 In 2007 the Presidential Candidates were coming to New Hampshire for the "First in the Nation" Presidential Primary. I saw as many of them as I could. Hillary came to the Town Hall which was filled to capacity. I wasn't able to get into the venue till the very end when people left. Frankly she was not very impressive as a candidate. Most of the hall was filled with the press. 9-11 Truther The Media She looked bored

November 7, 2025 The daily picture theme is #Tea I'm returning to my blogging beginnings with this post. It is written using Blogger, a Google product that I was certain that would abandoned by now. I started posting on that almost 20 years ago and it went through several interations and name changes. I post daily photos for a theme and day taking photos from my archives. Blogger is integrated with Google Photos which forms the pool for the majority of my photos. So using this platform simplifies my photo management. The first photo was a bit of an accident. I wandering into a photo shoot and sat down at a "tea party". I'm actually more of a coffee drinker. The second photo is one of my Mom's silver tea set which my sister and I decided to sell since neither of us is that formal. Silver Tea Set

  Forwarding Address I used Blogger as my first foray into the world of online writing in December 2006. Over the years I created several other blogs and a few websites. I finally settled down a bit and decided to put my energy into a self-hosted Wordpress site named My Strange Life . The Orphans What was to become of these sites after I stopped adding content? Nothing at all. Everything on the internet seems to last forever, or at least in the span of a lifetime. There are multiple orphans and WebCrawlers dutifully work their way through the internet finding links and keywords. I won't delete this blog but want want to freshen it up a bit with new information. My Strange Life Below is a RSS "ticker tape" of my latest postings on my website My Strange Life. This are recent postings.

Aug 15, 2009 White Elephant Sale - 148th New Ipswich Children's Fair  Bob with his pile of treasures The 161st Children's Fair will be held on August 20, 2022 on the grounds of the Congregational Church in New Ipswich, NH. However it will not have the White Elephant sale that was a popular attraction a decade ago. This is a look back at what it was like back then when Bob and Wendy Grippardi would organize the piles of donations and attempt to make them attractive enough for sale. Wendy keeps it tidy Rummage Sale The White Elephant sale shared the space with a clothing rummage sale which always featured some stylish threads. Dress for comfort This was BEFORE the Green Center existed

 A Fire-Breathing Dragon I guess it was inevitable that Bill Tobin would come up with something special for the 1987 Regatta on Water Loom Pond. He was a builder with a creative mind. He wasn't going to settle with just a Loch Ness replica, this was a fully operational FIRE BREATHING Loch Ness replica. The Seal Of New Hampshire Years later, Bill would create his masterpiece. A larger than life three dimensional replica of Seal of New Hampshire. It made many appearances over the years such as this on in the Amherst, NH 2011 Fourth of July parade. I never did learn what became of the dragon. Perhaps some misty morning I might spot it at Water Loom belching fire.

  New Ipswich Transfer Station We no longer have a dump in traditional sense. We have a transfer station. However I have fond memories of Scofield Town Dump picking with my dad on Saturday in Stamford, CT. Old habits don't fade away, so I still check out the metal pile in New Ipswich to see what treasures I might find. Imagine my surprise when I saw an Oscilloscope. I wasn't just any run of of the mill oscilloscope, it was made by DuMont Laboratories . They were pioneers in television technology. They were famous for their Cathode Ray Tubes, which is the heart of an Oscilloscope. What the hell is an Oscilloscope? In my opinion an oscilloscope is the ultimate electronic test instrument. It can graph an electrical signal in X-Y coordinates and display it on a CRT screen. If you've ever watched Outer Limits or Ernie Kovacs , you've seen an oscilloscope display. Usually the electrical signal is plotted against time but if two sinusoidal signal are plotted against each othe...