Dear Customers, The first federal holidays were created in 1870 when Congress gave paid leave to works in Washington, D.C. for New Year’s Day, the 4th of July, Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Other holidays were added later because it was so well received and in 1875, some 15 years after that, Congress extended the benefit to…

Dear Customers, Sometime during the middle of this week, June will already be half over!  Slow down, why don’t you.  Logically, I know that every day of the year is pretty much the same length.  Why then do the days when I look out the window at ice and snow seem to last so much…

Dear Customers, If I consider each of the 12 months for their plusses and minuses, its easy to penalize certain months when ranking them 1 through 12. For me at least, January, February and March are all tied for last place. There are several others who rank in the middle of the pack or between…

Dear Customers, About 18 years ago, shortly after we moved up the street to this location, 4 undergrads at Harvard launched a new social media platform that they called FaceBook! It was originally intended as a way for Harvard students to access other Harvard students.  As its membership grew, It quickly became a means for…

Dear Customers, Since the pandemic began over two years ago, I’ve been faced with doing our on-line ad earlier and earlier, due to printing deadlines and a shortage of manpower in the companies that provide us with our “specials”.  We are now out about a month in advance of the date when these advertisements become…

Dear Customers, With May arrives so many delightful events that we only get to enjoy once a year! Chief among those delights are Mother’s Day and Memorial Day.  Many families look forward to family vacations now that many of the travel restrictions have been lifted. In addition, we have graduations, both at the high school…

Dear Customers, We’ve been very patient.  That doesn’t mean we haven’t complained, griped and generally worried it like a dog with a bone but Winter was persistent this year.  Reference that sudden spring snow-storm the day(s) after Easter!  I had read somewhere back in early March that “Winter was going to hold on into April…

Dear Customers, The next three months are arguably my favorite quarter of the year, at least weather wise.  This past winter I happened to watch a couple videos from 2021 and while it was stark white and gray outside, the colors from the Memorial Day parade video were brilliant.  It almost looked fake the colors…

Dear Customers, INFLATION!  Not the kind you employ when your basketball doesn’t bounce high enough, and not the kind that clowns use creating balloon animals.  I’m talking about the kind that affects each and every one of us.  While we would like to lay the blame at Vladimir Putin’s door for invading the Ukraine, the…

Dear Customers, By the time we’ve made it through Easter, the worst of the weather is behind us.  I look forward to sunshine, the aroma of charbroiled meats, freshly mown grass and that unique earthy smell as the ground offers up its hidden assortment of long dormant bulbs. April is full of promise – the…