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Oaktober is a great time to find that perfect pumpkin at Daisi Hill Farm in Millerton NY (which will be highlighted in Rachel Ray's magazine.) They kindly helped me get a great pumpkin to donate toward the local events as I can manage to haul the 20-lber Great Pumpkin about to share. (Read  this next part with caution as this includes some real-life jazz like birth stories...oh joy)

That's my hometown and the place of Kaelan's high school..and sadly not far from the river which claimed his life in June of 2009 when he tried to save a friend (who was thankfully rescued moments later...so

The other day I spoke with a woman about my age. Somehow we got talking about who we know in NYC and she shared that her sister and brother lived there, not far from Battery Park, just a couple blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Of course I felt compelled to ask if they were there when the tragedy struck. She readily answered, "Not only were they there in NYC, but my sister worked in the second building on the 82nd floor, right where the plane struck."

The details followed that her brother and sister who are likely middle-aged as are we, went to the Trade Center together that day,

The following is a comment I posted on the Berkshire Edge in response to their coverage about Thom Reed (www.tomreed.info) putting a marker up with support from a few dozen others to commemorate a UFO siting from the late 1960s and deemed the first official siting in the the United States of America.

There is not enough time (or people power/ protection) to think over all of these important ideas in public so thanks for this forum..’may the good forces be with you” as Luke Skywalker or our more local Thom Reed would say for the United States of a Miracle.

The time for questions has come