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kind of livid that they’d interrupt a man’s 90th birthday party at Madison Square Garden, just to shake their tambourine some more. I’d have been even more livid had I real- ized that they’d reduced a 3 hour & 21 minute cel- ebration into little more than 1 hour! We get both WENH-TV, channel 11 and WGBH- TV, channel 2 on our ca- ble system. I used to enjoy Saturday afternoons watching the related how-
to shows; The New Yan- kee Workshop with Norm
Abram and two sequen- tial episodes of This Old House. (You’d think that this would indicate that I enjoy woodworking, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Wood and I don’t get along well at all. If I’m not wearing gloves and pick up a piece of wood I’m certain to have a splinter!) Nonetheless, these related shows are very entertaining to me and I used to look forward to them. But for some time now, Saturdays have often become the default
shop with Norm Abram
has been discontinued for some time now, without my even having realized it!
I’ll find something else
to occupy my time on Sat- urday afternoons and the folks at public television can go fry a glass egg! Earlier in this article
Here’s a neat little lamp, the light bulbs for which are already scarce. Malzy found a supply of them on the Internet.
day to shake the fund raising tambourine some more. These shows used to
have a sequential continu- ity, a continuity that’s be-
come lost and clouded by fund raising. So much so, that in spite of my deter- mination to watch these shows whenever possible,
The New Yankee Work-
I mentioned as to how Malzy takes care of a lot of our Internet procure- ments. For example, there are two incandes- cent lamps that we need around our house, lamps that were once available in Wolfeboro, but which
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are no longer carried, that I’ve seen. In our living room we have three lamps that accommodate 3-way bulbs. A local hardware store used to carry 3-ways that had 15/135/150 watt options. I found these more suitable to some of our needs that the ubiq- uitous 50/100/150 watt varieties that are for sale everywhere. We do use one compact florescent 3-way rated as equivalent to 50/100/150 watts and we use it in the 100 watt equivalent position each
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