Goings-on in and around the family

• On Thursday, we celebrated Adam's promotion to Sergeant. The ceremony was held at the State Police Headquarters in Framingham, after which we went out to dinner. We were all very proud and very happy.
• Last weekend, we visited our friends, Pete and Mildred, in Maine. They have a flock of sheep - several ewes and one ram who's looking forward to mid-November when it will be time to frolic. (It's best when lambs are born in the spring.) We stayed overnight at their house and went to the Fryeburg Fair the next day.
• On Sunday, our friends, Dan and Gay, came to our house. Gay had been at a chaplains' conference in Boston. On Saturday, they climbed Mt. Katahdin. We went to Mike and Lynn's for the evening. After dinner, we listened to Michael and Krista play the piano and, then, Lynn and Jennie sang with Dan accompanying.
  
• Last night, we went to Mike's football game. The high school has a new football field with artificial turf. Mike's team lost.
• Sandra's parents will be returning from PEI this week. Their 65^th wedding anniversary is coming up in a month.
  
• This morning, we had our first frost, just a light coating on the back deck.
  

ConsumerReports.org - Is it really decaf?

Some of our friends have reported that, in order to avoid the unwanted buzz, they have to stay away from coffee altogether. They have noticed, and ConsumerReports has confirmed, that the stuff sold as decaf still has quite a bit of caffeine.

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