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GREETINGS FROM THE SUB-ARCTIC Bring the Payne! Team Payne, that is. He is back along with his whole team facing a terrifying alien from somewhere beyond known space… Stanley! What a good boy he is. From kitchen to living room… my sausage is his sausage, or so he thinks. I toss small pieces for him,

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GREETINGS FROM THE SUB-ARCTIC Sometimes a single grain of sand can stand out on a vast beach… Stanley stole my spot, then sacked out, snoring in my face as if to lord his position over me. I let him have that spot because he is an olympic-caliber sleeper.  My wife was at a conference in

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GREETINGS FROM THE SUB-ARCTIC Stanley is exploring the extremes of his ability to sleep at least twenty hours a day. It’s gotten cold, like really cold once more. Easy come. Easy go. The roads have a nice ice glare to them.  Stanley is never too far from baby Yoda. He gives his favorite toy prime

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Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! So much snow! We added a foot on the ground over the past week. It now goes half-way up Stanley’s body, but it’s better to have that much snow on the ground as insulation. As it is, we get a hard freeze of the ground to about four-feet deep. Without the

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Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Still cold. Business as usual. Stanley gets extra blankets. His hair isn’t growing in thickly enough, quickly enough. It’s 63F in my office as the thermostat in the hallway is set to 70. There’s a second thermostat about fifteen feet down the hallway toward the living room and another about ten

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Greetings from the Sub-Arctic It’s still cold here. It’s been two weeks since our high temperatures have been above 0F… Going for a walk nowadays is a trial. Stanley needs his coat and boots on every time. At these temperatures, he can handle about thirty seconds without his gear before it starts hurting his feet.

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Science Fiction is the way to enlightened entertainment Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! I made up that title. You can find enlightened entertainment anywhere you look, as long as you’re looking. There’s deeper meaning everywhere. It’s like finding peace in a forest or along a rushing stream.Or in pictures of Stanley as he adventures across the

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It’s amazing any of us made it out of our teens Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! Winter is upon us.  Stanley is getting into the winter spirit – with the darkness comes extra sleep. Yesterday, I think he managed about eighteen hours. At the nadir of winter, Phyllis was able to sleep about twenty-two hours. Stanley

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Two books enter. One book leaves… Greetings from the Sub-Arctic! We had a quick warming spell that melted most of the snow so it looks dismal out there. Looks like Fall, which it technically is, but it’s already winter up here. We’ll get sandblasted this week, no doubt. My snow removal equipment is ready, I

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