Trounce Alley Grazing

At Eight PM Last Night

2009-12-12T14:58:07Z

In my youth I had an image of where I would be so many decades later, meaning at my age now. I saw myself sitting in a high backed easy chair, by a fire, across from the missus, reading a good book. That vision came to me last night as I sat at m...

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Famous Grazing Returns to the Fold

2009-10-16T01:50:10Z

We were using the FamousGrazing.com URL for one of our first blogs. There was a problem with the host and the server. Instead of pay what was clearly extortion, we let the registration lapse. The URL was held hostage for a few years with no tak...

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QotD: City Life vs. Country Living

2009-10-16T01:42:20Z

Which do you prefer? City life or country living? I would prefer City living and country life. Who wrote that question. English as second language? You live in the city, you stay in the country. Or. You visit the City and live in the country...

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Tried Ping in January

2009-10-10T18:11:02Z

Some of the drifting famous grazing blogs were given hope by Ping.fm in January. I posted an entry then in the Xanga blog at http://ping.fm/4frro Still trying...

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2009-10-10T14:08:25Z

We have been trying to get xPollinate to send blog entries to Posterous and Vox. Our last try didn't work. Now we're trying to do the same from withing Ping.fm

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It Still Takes a Few Days

2009-09-13T04:14:31Z

I watched the second plane hit. I remember thinking "what kind of idiot would fly that close to take a look?" I still thought the first strike was an accident. Growing up in Manhattan in the '50's I was used to stories of planes hitting the sky s...

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Need to Write

2009-09-05T13:53:14Z

(The piece below was written for a now dead blog. It was written nine years ago, before I did get to go to Alaska and the Yukon.**) As with most Bloggers, this need to write often accompanies a lack of subject.--- We lead our ordinary lives in v...

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We Created a Posterous Blog a While Ago

2009-01-04T05:25:15Z

Created a Blog at http://grazing.posterous.com/ just to see what it had to offer. Couldn't use the editor and gave up. After getting a prodding email from the developer, we went back to find they seems to have lined up the ducks in the proper orde...

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Life QotD: 2008 Highlights

2009-01-02T16:04:46Z

Looking back on 2008, what were the highlights of your year? Surviving the past eight years. -30- Note, this online editor is not working in Opera 10.alpha

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Another attempt at Blogger entry

2009-01-02T15:04:19Z

Have been trying to get the Blog-It feature linked to Friend Feed to post a Blog entry here at Belltower News with no success. I am sure it is because I have yet upgraded to the templates added after Google took over. Tried another tweak. If this...

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