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State investigates
storm response

Some residents without power for
more than a week

PHOTO: CAROL REIF BY CAROL REIF the department has “front-loaded” its
STAFF WRITER investigative process with such notices.
The Town Board held the hearing at Reis Park to adhere to social distancing guidelines. And it has “tightened” that process to
e sounds of frustration and an- six months, instead of the usual year to
Residents air sewer ger over the way utilities responded to two years.
district concerns Tropical Storm Isaias are still echo-
Proponents cite environmental bene ts ing up and down the Hudson Val- “ e response to Tropical Storm
ley—from such small communities as Isaias by the electric utilities was com-
BY CAROL REIF dents of these two communities,” Bar- Somers and North Salem to the county pletely unacceptable. Fifteen days later
STAFF WRITER bagallo said. seat in White Plains and all the way to and we are still hearing complaints
the state capital in Albany. from families and businesses,” Cuomo
ere may be some federal dollars in Westchester holds the keys to letting said. “With many weeks remaining in
the pipeline that could help fund the in- Somers send wastewater to its treatment Last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo an- the hurricane season, we do not have
stallation of sewers in Lake Shenorock plant in Peekskill. nounced that the state Department of the luxury of time—utilities must act
and Lake Lincolndale, Somers o cials re- Public Service had completed the rst immediately to x their broken storm
vealed last week. Until the district is formed, Somers can’t phase of an investigation into the prep- response apparatus, and the Depart-
access the $10 million allocated as part of aration and restoration e orts related ment of Public Service must act more
e town also had other news for resi- the East of Hudson Water Quality Im- to Tropical Storm Isaias. Con Edison swiftly to hold utilities accountable.”
dents at a public hearing on the planned provement Program being funded by New was among four electric service provid-
$62 million project held at Reis Park on York City’s Department of Environmental ers that received letters from the state e governor added that he planned
Protection. notifying them of apparent violations. to propose legislation to speed up
ursday, Aug. 20. and “clarify” the process under which
Consulting engineer Joe Barbagallo of Nor can the town, which has been Also cited was telephone, cable and utilities could lose their franchises.
Woodard & Curran said the county has working on the project for two years, pur- internet provider Altice-Optimum.
agreed not to charge property owners in sue other outside funding. Among those “ ese utility companies predict
the proposed sewer district buy-in fees or sources are the state Water Quality Im- All the entities were told that they when we’re going to have storms and
operation and maintenance fees until con- provement Program and the state Water could face steep penalties and must when we’re going to have emergencies.
struction begins. take immediate corrective actions so
“ is was a substantial win for the resi- SEE SEWER PAGE 24 similar failures aren’t “repeated during at’s the art form of the business
the remainder of hurricane season,” the and what we pay them for. ey need
DPS said. to do better and we are holding them

Cuomo noted that it’s the rst time SEE STORM RESPONSE PAGE 8

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Results came in ve months late due Mahopac News also did well in Illustration by Simone Kurtz
to the pandemic, but I am extremely this category, winning third place for
pleased with the outcome of the 2019 Best Front Page. Congratulations to shot the photo for the beautifully Katonah-Lewisboro Times.
Better Newspaper Contest hosted by Mahopac News Editor Bob Dumas, designed front page of our Hudson Finally, Simone Kurtz received an
the New York Press Association. and again to Marshall and Rose. Dumas Valley Spring Guide, which won rst
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Our Halston Media team did for Best Column. Each Halston Media newspaper has graphic illustration of the front page
exceptionally well in some impressive its own membership in the New York of our Celebrate Somers special
categories. Halston Media is the Halston Media sta nearly swept the Press Association, and we submitted supplement. Congrats to Kurtz. is
publisher of Mahopac News, e most competitive category in the entire our entry in this category through e also means that all ve Halston Media
Somers Record, Yorktown News, contest: Best Feature Story. Yorktown newspapers won awards this year.
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Astorino announces new ballot line

BY ABBY LUBY ate District that spans Dutchess, PHOTO: ABBY LUBY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER Putnam and Westchester coun-
ties. Volunteers sought signa- Rob Astorino announcing his new ballot line in Somers Commons Shopping Center on Thursday, August
New York State Senate candi- tures at various shopping cen- 20. From left to right, Assemblyman Kevin Byrne (R94 AD), Rob Astorino, center, and Somers Town
date Rob Astorino, a Republican, ters; some went door to door, Supervisor Rick Morrissey.
last week announced the creation others encouraged voters to sign
of a new ballot line, Rebuild Our the petition at Astorino’s cam- said Astorino’s Rebuild Our rino’s scal polices as Westchester no’s strong support of President
State, that will appear on the No- paign headquarters in Mount State ballot line provides no clear County executive. Trump. Astorino is a CNN con-
vember ballot. Pleasant, Yorktown, Brewster and path for any action that could be tributor and commentator who
Somers. Astorino said the new taken in Albany. “He left Westchester with oper- usually supports the president;
Astorino made his public an- ballot line appeals to those in all ating de cits totaling $81 million he currently serves on President
nouncement about the new bal- political parties because it pro- “People can vote on it, but it’s the last ve years he was county Trump’s 2020 campaign advisory
lot line on ursday, August 20, vides an approach to restructuring not a structural change, it’s not a executive, and the county’s debt board.
outside the Penny Lane Dance the state budget, taxes, spending political movement. e line will had grown to $1.6 billion under
Academy at the Somers Com- and borrowing. be at the very bottom of the bal- his watch,” Harckham said. Byrne faces a challenge in the
mons Shopping Center in Bald- lot and hard to nd. People won’t upcoming election from Demo-
win Place. Joining him were “It’s a true collation of people know what it is.” Harckham said the real pur- crat Stephanie Keegan for the
some 30 residents and local of- who are fed up and really con- pose of the new ballot line was 94th District seat.
cerned about what is happening Harckham criticized Asto- to distract voters from Astori-
cials, including Assemblyman right now in Albany,” he said.
Kevin Byrne and Somers Town “We’re looking at how we treat
Supervisor Rick Morrissey. As- businesses, big and small, local
torino said the impetus of the municipalities and taxpayers. It’s
move was “the state’s grim eco- time for legislators to adopt a new
nomic outlook.” mindset.”

“Our businesses have been Astorino, 53, served as West-
battered. We have 750,000 regu- chester County executive from
lations on the books that batter 2010-2017. He was unseated by
our businesses day in and day George Latimer in 2017.Astorino
out. So many people are leaving formally announced his intention
this state—a million people in to unseat incumbent Sen. Pete
the last 10 years alone.” Harckham in June. Harckham
was elected in 2018 in a defeat of
e petition to place the new incumbent Terrence Murphy.
ballot line garnered over 5,000
signatures, an e ort achieved by In an interview after the for-
some 100 volunteers who can- mal announcement, Harckham
vassed 15 towns in the 40th Sen-

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STORM RESPONSE After making landfall as a Cat- Harckham also met with elected Harckham added that “whole- power or phone, cable, and inter-
egory 1 hurricane in North Car- o cials and utility representa- sale reformation of the business net service.
FROM PAGE 1

olina, taking the lives of at least tives, and heard from residents. model and real systemic changes “Cellphone calls were all but

accountable,” Cuomo said. nine people as it traveled up the “Power and communications in the way that the utilities plan impossible to make throughout

More than 2 million homes East Coast. outages from down wires lasted for storms, their incident com- the county,” Latimer said.

and businesses were left with- Meanwhile, state Sen. Pete in some part of the 40th Senate mand structure (and) their com- He called the situation “outra-

out power after Isaias slammed Harckham reported that he had District for more than a week, munication” are needed to restore geous” at any time, “but today, in

the mid-Atlantic and Northeast spoken at a public hearing held and a number of residents are credibility. an age of working from home,

on Tuesday, Aug. 4. Most of the by the state Legislature on the still without electricity and com- Con Ed’s storm response was distance learning, and ever-in-

outages were concentrated in the emergency storm response. munication services,” Harckham “dreadful,” the senator testi ed. creasing reliance on having ad-

tristate area; some 634,000 of A member of Senate com- said on Friday, Aug. 21. “You may have met 90 or 95 equate power—not to mention

them in New York. e damage mittees on energy and telecom- He also entered into the record percent of your (outage response) the scorching temperatures—

from wind gusts of 75 mph and munications, environmental con- a letter signed by 22 town and benchmarks when you wanted to, thousands of Westchester resi-

higher was severe in some places. servation, and local government, village leaders castigating Altice but in my district, that was thou- dents were left, and still are left,

USA, Inc., corporate parent of sands of families and thousands in the dark or without telecom-

BEDFORD GRAVEL Optimum, “for its poor response of customers without service and munications for over a week at
& LANDSCAPE SUPPLY to storm outages and poor com- adequate communication,” he the hands of Con Edison, NY-
munications with customers told a Con Ed executive. SEG, Altice and Verizon.”
• Gravel • Topsoil • Mulches whose service was a ected by the
• Sweet Peet • Unilock Pavers storm.” He was less harsh about NY- Latimer called for a new ne
SEG’s response, thanking its structure aimed at putting a “true
• Sand • Stonedust e numerous storm-related president, Carl Taylor, for moni-
nancial pain that would not be

problems has hurt the credibility toring power restoration “on the shifted to ratepayers.”
of state and elected o cials who ground” and maintaining close He also called for the creation
oversee utilities, Harckham said. personal contact with o cials
during storm cleanup. of a “utility reserve corps” recruit-
“ ere have been hearings, ed from among utility worker
there have been letters, there have Harckham said that utilities retirees so “storm recovery does

• Item #4 • Drainage Pipe been reports…there are stacks of should compensate customers for not take ve to 10 days due to
• Flagstone • Fieldstone plans, there have been table-top all their losses because of the time logistics.”
drills, and the only thing that it took to get the power back on. “ e formula is this–take the

• Belgian Block changes is both these utilities He also as cosponsored a bill that total number of customers with-
• Cobblestones • Wallstone
(Con Ed and New York State requires them to do so. out power times the number of

Electric and Gas) get worse ev- County Executive George outage days and multiply that by

• Fire Pits • Stepping Stones • Soil/Fill ery storm,” Harckham said at the Latimer testi ed at the joint $1,000. Meaning, 10 customers
hearing. “ ey forget the lessons Senate and Assembly hearing in out of power for 10 days would
27 Norm Ave., Mt. Kisco (next to Kohl’s)
learned about make-safe crews Albany, as well. levy a ne of $100,000. e nes
www.bedfordgravel.com and communication, both with In a statement released urs- would be directly tied to the
municipalities and within their community impact, would not
914-241-3851 own companies, (about) critical day, Aug. 20, Latimer said that correlate with a rate increase and
infrastructure, and on and on.” roughly 100,000 Westchester have some teeth,” Latimer said.
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Opinion

Happily
Ever
After

What color shingles? Why do we listen?

Sorry people, these shingles are not WHATWAS Iam really appalled at how we allow THE
for sale and they’re certainly not the I THINKING? ourselves to be exploited by drug SEASONED
kind you’d want to purchase, believe manufacturers, politicians, vitamin CITIZEN
me! RUTHANN hucksters, designers and sundry others.
SCHEFFER As long as it’s repeated often enough, ADRIENNE
According to the brochure from the we line up like lemmings and naively KAVELLE
American Academy of Dermatology: September. I pled my case for an earlier follow the loudest and most persistent
“Shingles is a painful skin rash that often appointment and got no where. voices. Today’s politicians have not changed
blisters.” ey sometimes call it Herpes these tactics. ey call their opponents
Zolster. Anyone who has had chickenpox I nally was able to get an appointment Let’s start with medicinal substances cheats and liars, deriding each other’s
can get shingles. e virus that causes with Hudson Dermatology. After com- advertised on television and periodicals, deeds, and the last ones to speak still
chickenpox stays in the body. After hav- pleting tons of paper work, I went into the advising us to “ask our physicians about hold the ears of the people. ey keep
ing chickenpox, the virus travels to nerve exam room. Upon rst look, the PA said them”. Isn’t it supposed to be the other repeating their accusations until every
cells where it lies dormant. If something “Shingles!” She prescribed an antibiotic way around; isn’t it our doctors who lie becomes true because of repetition.
reactivates or wakes up the virus, the and set up an appointment for the follow- should be telling us what will help or If there had been television in 1860
person gets shingles.” And, yes, stress can ing week. harm us, not we telling them? Looks Abraham Lincoln would never have
trigger the onset of shingles. Half of us like it works though, because manufac- been elected. He was nervous and
folks over the age of 60 get shingles. I understand now that one can get turers have been buying time and ads gangly and didn’t look the part. Frank-
shingles more than once and that it can be for many years. lin Delano Roosevelt never allowed
Years ago, I had a case of shingles. is dangerous. My rash is not spreading; how- himself to be seen in a wheel chair
rash decided to rear its ugly head around ever, I am contagious at this point and have Understanding our bodies and how because he was savvy enough to know
my waist. What discomfort, and it was been advised to go to the ER if it should they work is exceedingly important; it would frighten the masses to have a
during the summer! Once I healed, I spread near my mouth, nose or eyes. understanding drug interactions is not physically challenged president. e
our job but our doctors and pharma- advent of television has given politicians
gured they wouldn’t come back again. Being quarantined is “old hat”for me. cists. We are, of course, warned by the a broader audience and computers even
Sometimes we just assume too much! As long as I have books to read, can talk manufacturer that using their suggested more so. e computer has also made
to family and friends on the phone or drug might end in severe disease or misinformation easier to obtain so we’re
Recently, I noticed a pinkish splotch on Skype, I’ll just addle along. e very death…so, as long as we’re warned, why surrounded on all sides by innuendo.
my chest. I didn’t think too much about disappointing fact is that I can’t go to worry!?
it until I noticed more splotches the next the beauty salon. Now that is a serious Now let’s talk about being cajoled
day. ey had invaded my territory: across inconvenience! Listening to politicians is just as bad. into using vitamins and essential oils.
my chest, up the left side of my neck and Shakespeare proved that to us in Julius It is very important for all of us to
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a doctor was near to impossible! Even before and didn’t think I needed the he knew the last words we hear are the
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e itsy-bitsy snack

Irecently read that the average person will ingest my diet that day.
eight spiders in his or her lifetime.
Apparently, this happens when we are sleep- Still, it’s one TRACY
ing, which would make sense, because I don’t know
anyone in their right mind who would choose to thing to inad-
eat a spider when they’re conscious, except maybe
my dog, although he prefers slugs to spiders. Ap- vertently inhale BECKERMAN
parently slugs taste like chicken and spiders just
taste like… spiders. a beetle, and

While this might explain that full feeling I quite another to
sometimes have when I wake up, I was reluctant
to believe that even one spider would willingly nd out that an
climb into bed with me and take a kamikaze dive
into my mouth. I’ve smelled my morning breath. It army of spiders
would kill anything smaller than an elephant upon
impact. are playing tonsil

Moreover, being a light sleeper, I’m pretty sure hockey with you on their way down to your stomach.
I would wake up if I felt someone or something
tickling my tongue. It’s just not the kind of thing Since I do not believe everything I read on the internet,
you can continue to sleep through. I have to
imagine that somewhere in the deep recesses of my I decided to do a little research into the matter to help allay
sleeping mind, it would register that a spider was
crawling into my mouth, and before you could say my fears.
“Charlotte’s Web,” I’d be wide awake and spitting
that sucker across the bedroom oor. e rst site I checked said we swallow four spiders in

is is not to say that I haven’t eaten a few bugs our lifetime. at was better, but still not great news.
accidentally over the years. I distinctly remember
the joy of ying down a big hill on my bike when e second site I checked said the number was closer to
I was kid, and then the feeling of pure horror as
a bug ew into my mouth and down my throat. 20. After reading that, I felt compelled to wash my mouth
I had no idea what kind of bug it was, other than
the knowledge that it buzzed and crunched before out with Listerine and lay down with a cool washcloth
it went down. Distraught, I told my mother, who
responded that it was just a little extra protein in across my head. But then I was worried I might fall asleep

and swallow a spider, so I got up and went back on the

internet.

Another site said we swallow a pound of spiders over our

lifetime. According to the site, that would be about 20,000

average-sized house spiders. I decided this information

must be awed. If we had 20,000 spiders in our house, I

wouldn’t BE in the house long enough to swallow them.

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whole thing is a made-up crock of arachnids.

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One-stop shopping
for homeowners

Honey-Do-Men contractors can do it all

When Darrell Babboni started a small and remodeling company is somewhat of in supporting the local community, as well Winner,and named Business of the Year by

business out of his mom’s house in 1997 a disservice. It would probably be easier to as the Honey-Do-Men Entrepreneurial the Somers Chamber of Commerce.

doing home repairs, he had no idea it list what they don’t do than what they can Scholarship Program, which awards up to “ ere was a hole in the market, we

would grow to the size it is today.It’s now a do, but let’s give it a try. Exterior services four graduates $1,000 each who show an found it, and lled it,” Babboni said. “My

multi-million-dollar business with 38 em- include roo ng, gutters, siding, windows, entrepreneurial spirit. goal was to become a one-stop-shop for

ployees and 21 trucks. ey complete over doors, driveways, deck, patios, and fenc- Babboni also created the Holiday Light homeowners to call for anything they

1,000 jobs each year. ing, to name a few. Interior services include Show, which is an event he does every year need. And that’s what we have done.”

His company, Honey-Do-Men, a home bathroom and kitchen remodeling, oor- at his o ce with over 40,000 LED lights In addition to providing an extensive selec-

improvement and repair company, has a ing installation, tiling, painting, re nish- all timed to music just to raise the spirits of tion of remodeling, repair, and maintenance

brick-and-mortar headquarters in Carmel ing, custom carpentry, plumbing, electric, the local community services, Honey-Do-Men also ensures each

where Babboni spends most of his days fo- diagnostic repairs, new additions, and a full Babboni went to college and got a de- customer has an outstanding experience.

cusing on customer service, the one thing array of small handyman services. Babboni gree in the performing arts. He was acting “I stand behind my work and every job

he said is missing most in this industry. calls it one-stop shopping for homeowners. and singing, but quickly discovered people my company does,” Babboni said. “I think

Babboni says his pillars of success are But it’s not just about the quantity of the were willing to pay more for those self- it’s that commitment to the job and to the

ve simple things; 1) Answer the phone work or the quality of the jobs it performs; taught home-improvement skills than the customer that has ultimately propelled the

when it rings. 2) Show up on time. 3) it’s mostly about customer service. Maybe ones he learned in school. success of the company.”

Give a written estimate, not a number on that’s why more than 68 percent of the “It was the late ’90s, and I was work- Babboni says diagnostics is his strong

the back of a business card. 4) Do the job jobs they do each year come from repeat ing out of a Honda Civic stripped-down suit, noting it doesn’t help to x something

right,don’t cut corners.5) If there is a prob- customers and direct referrals. If you talk hatchback with the seats folded down, a if you don’t know what caused it to break

lem, go back and x it, no questions asked. to Babboni, who also aspires to become a milk crate full of tools, gutter parts, and a in the rst place. “It seems [other contrac-

Honey-Do-Men services all of West- motivational speaker, you can feel his pas- backpack blower,” he said. “I was working tors] just want to replace everything; they

chester and Putnam counties. However, sion for the work, his company, and for the out of my mom’s house, using her com- don’t want to x it,” he explained. “ ey

Babboni is now in the process of devel- industry he works in. puter and my ladder was strapped to the just want to tear it all out, charge a ton of

oping a franchise model that will take it Babboni, who graduated from Somers roof of my car with no roof rack because I money, and put in all new instead of taking

national as early as next year and will be High School in 1996, and then West- couldn’t a ord one. But I was working out- the time to see what the problem is and if

lming a pilot for a possible series on cable chester Community College in 1998, was doors; I was my own boss, and I loved it.” it can be repaired.”

TV this fall. raised by a single mom. He began by doing Babboni was the typical one-man shop In fact,the company’s mission statement

To simply call Honey-Do-Men a repair simple home repairs to help out around the until a horri c accident where he broke his is, “Raising the expectation level between

house because his mom couldn’t a ord to neck and back in 2004, followed by another the homeowner and their contractor.”

pay someone to make home repairs. traumatizing accident only two years later “I also have a personal motto,‘ ink fast,

“I probably broke more things than I where he broke both his legs, which forced move faster,’”Babboni adds. “Without it, I

xed,” he said with a laugh. But that strug- him to start hiring people to do the work wouldn’t be where I am today.”

gle would lead to the creation of Honey- he couldn’t. Over the next 14 years, Bab- Call 914-837-0411 to nd out more or

Do-Men and several programs Babboni boni started hiring people, bought more to get a free estimate.

would create such as the Good Samaritan trucks, and started building an o ce sta ,

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provement jobs away for free to a home- one of the Top 500 Quali ed Remodelers Honey-Do-Men

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Capers from the Cape

It’s true that vacations are the wind for too long before they eat through our ears. Like New e next couple days were MAN
scaled down these days, and chime in and help you carry it York, the rule is that you have to great for lounging at the shore, OVERBOARD
you can’t visit everywhere somewhere unharmed. eat a convincing amount of food and our dog Gidget proved to
and do everything that a robust in order to purchase drinks from be a carefree beach bunny. We RICK
agenda might have on it. But that About 99 percent of the the bar. I had been fasting since took a walk along the sand bar at MELÉN
doesn’t mean that we can’t have people walking on Commercial breakfast, knowing that I can only low tide, basking in the frequent
a good time. After being cooped Street were wearing a mask, drink as much as I can eat.To praise of dog lovers unfamiliar to a country music station. If I
up in my house for ve months, so it felt very safe to shop and my chagrin there was a one-hour with her breed. Gidget took it listen to country music for too
doing my taxes in a hotel room people-watch. I noticed that I table limit, and I almost had a in furry stride, and even dipped long I start to say “babuh” a lot
in Patterson would seem like a couldn’t yawn with my mask on, panic attack. What if it’s Daylight her paws into the water (she’s and talk about my truck, even
romantic getaway. And right now so I made a point of not going Savings Time and they set the fussy about her paws). On the though I don’t own a truck, and
it’s important to show that we anywhere boring. ere were clocks ahead and I have to leave bay beach in Provincetown at it takes two days to get it out of
can wear a mask when we need a ton of pretty girls and ladies before I get there? ankfully no low tide you can stroll for 15 my system. But it sounds good
to, stay apart and work it into the walking around, at least I assume one was keeping 4/4 time, and I minutes into the water and barely at the beach, and when Gidget
plan without a whole lot of fuss. there were, I couldn’t see much of ate an entire pizza’s worth of beer. get your shins wet. If you keep settled onto her own towel for a
We rented a house in Provinc- their faces. e era of coronavirus Covid-era government is making walking and you see signs for nice nap, it seemed like a pretty
etown, Massachusetts for a few has been a boon for girls with us fat. Faneuil Hall, you went too far. good idea.
nights and had a great time. nice eyes. I remember back in
high school, when one of my girl As we got on our bikes to ere were no lifeguards, but e next day it was already
It wasn’t exactly the same ex- friends said, “I know the perfect go home we saw a fox running with 80-degree water, no waves, time to go home, and before
perience as it used to be, when we girl for you.”Which meant that across the street, of all things. I no alcohol, no depth and tiny we hit the tra c on Route 6, I
used to hang out at the Governor they knew someone so desperate could see how foxy it was because little sh, you’d really have to wished I could take a piece of
Bradford until one o’clock in the that they would possibly put up it wasn’t wearing a mask like a expend some e ort to get into paradise with me. And there it
morning, listening to the drag with me for one evening. And I’d racoon does, and you could tell it any trouble. It seemed much was: a rest area with a sign that
queens run Karaoke night. ey shallowly ask if they were good- wasn’t a housecat because of the more dangerous to check my said, “Adopt Me.” Before I could
had some chess boards built into looking, and my friend would say, tail. A fox has a tail that looks emails from work. ere was jot the number down we were
the tables near the window, and “She has great eyes,” which meant like it was ordered from Etsy and a girl who found a nice-sized already into the rotary. It’s just as
we used to play, even though the rest of her looked like a Goya hastily fastened on with a safety horseshoe crab, and I told her well, we don’t have room for it in
there would always be a piece or painting. It was one step up from pin. en we saw another one, that an upside down horseshoe is the garage, but wouldn’t it be nice
two missing. If you happened “She has a fantastic personality,” so I guess foxes are in and cats good luck, although maybe not to have an area like that for the
to capture my queen, there were which was a guarantee, if true, are SO last year. In fact we didn’t for the crab. rest of the summer.
always plenty more where that that she de nitely wouldn’t like see any cats at all, and usually
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