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This may require a bit of thinking, but don’t let that put you off.

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For Lord Dudley Mountcatten?

I have two…

1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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When His Lordship is in full attack mode, it’s very dragon like.

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Even when there’s a window between him and his prey.

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I think you can guess this crouch didn’t end well for the tree.

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2. The Big Sleep.

When not actively stalking, His Lordship excels at napping.

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Usually for 18- 20 hours a day.

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And don’t think about interrupting his slumber if you value your skin.

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We call this the do not disturb.

❤️

Now you…

What movie title describes your pet?

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Because it’s Friday and the weekend is almost here.

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We live in Maine for many reasons but high on the list? The scenic beauty.

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Rocky shores, coastal plains, virgin forests, rolling pastures and small pristine mountains. I love the change of seasons… the crisp colors of fall, the winter wonderland of snow.

I lived down south for 17 years and while parts of it are beautiful, it was never home. Too hot, too flat, too depressingly brown for Christmas.

So give me the blue zone. The cool air, the lakes, the mountains, the northern coasts. Quirky New England villages and Montana’s wide open valleys. I’ll be a happy camper. (Metaphorically speaking as I don’t camp.)

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How about you?

Pick a zone.

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Dip back into your childhood memories and answer this one.

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I remember neighborhood rounds of Spotlight.

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Though not with the “put up your hands or I’ll shoot” vibe Wiki is working here.

It was basically nighttime hide and seek with a flashlight and I doubt kids play it today.

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The world isn’t as innocent a place as when I was playing. Hiding in the bushes at night and being flushed out with lights is probably a good way to get shot today.

What (hopefully less dangerous) game did you play as a kid that’s faded into oblivion now ?

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We all have favorites.

This shouldn’t be difficult.

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For me, two immediately come to mind.

I’m a Jersey girl born and bred, and when I was growing up? Bruce ruled.

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I still have my original vinyl from 1975. I played it endlessly, learned all the words to all the songs and can still sing along verbatim to this day. Including a perfectly timed grunt on the title track. IYKYK.

Bruce’s raspy vocals filled with angst, Clarence’s mournful horn…Thunder Road, Jungleland. I can almost smell the shore.

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My second perfect album?

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The year was 1992, MTV was all we watched and Clapton was mesmerizing. Stripped down acoustic guitar performances that seared right through your soul. Bluesy and heartfelt, it was a masterpiece. His tender version of Layla rocketed to the top but the lesser known songs like Before You Accuse Me and Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out still resonate. Tears in Heaven? I can still feel the pain.

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Now you?

What’s your album of pure perfection…

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Dust the cobwebs off your brain and tell me….

How low can you go?

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Filling up the tank hurts these days. But it wasn’t always that way. I fondly recall pulling into a gas station and not paying a bit of attention to the price.

And while I remember the oil embargo of the 1970’s, I was a child and couldn’t tell you what my parents paid when the stations were open on alternating Monday and Thursday afternoons.

Newly married in the early eighties? Gas up the road from our house in North Carolina was .79 cents a gallon.

I filled my car for $11.06.

Doesn’t that sound wonderful?

Now you.

What’s the cheapest price you remember paying?

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It requires a little math today.

But it’s old math, so we’re good.

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19 out of 20 for me… because as hard as it is to believe, I’ve never been to a drive in movie. They were pretty much a dead thing by the time I started dating.

I have to laugh at being a boomer though because to this day, I still…

Listen to music on a record player,

Have photo albums filled with prints.

Pay for something with exact change.

Use a library card regularly.

Have a favorite radio station ( though admittedly it’s on satellite)

Watch the news at the same time every day.

Use a checkbook register.

And own both a cassette and 8 track player.

Once a boomer, always a boomer.

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Now you.

How many of these things have you done?

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Today I want you to date yourself.

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The first cell phone pictured is a Motorola DynaTAC 8000X brick released in 1983. It weighed 2.5 lbs, had about 30 minutes of talk time, and took 10 hours to fully charge. Cost? $3,995.

The last cell phone pictured is the first generation iPhone released in 2007. Revolutionary then… with its 2megapixel camera, internet communicator and accelerometer… but considered a relic today.

My first cell phone was #7. A Nokia something or other that I think I bought in 1998 or 1999. It didn’t do much of anything except (gasp!) act as a phone… back in the day when we used to have actual auditory conversations… but I thought it was pretty damn slick all the same.

Ironically I just stumbled across my second ever cell phone the other day.

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It was buried in a drawer under some sweaters and for the life of me I have no idea why I kept it.

Flip phones!

Geesh… texting was an absolute nightmare with those things.

Now you.

What was your first piece of mobile technology?

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