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Jeans — The Original Work Clothes

I must admit that a pair of jeans is my go-to outfit. I have a drawer full of jeans in all colors to blend with my wardrobe. I even have the short pants in jeans material that I wear all summer unless it is in the nineties that is.Jimmy Carter gets credit for the popularity of jeans as a fashion statement. During his fireside chats he wore jeans although they were not the high end jeans of today. Jimmy was a peanut farmer so jeans were probably his work attire that he felt most comfortable in.While I was going to college, pre-Jimmy, I worked in a department store. Part of my time was ...

Give It Your Best Shot

A gnarled treeroot near the bank of the Chadakoin. Photo by Sandy Robison.Send us your ''Best Shot'' of unique moments in your family's life. Write clearly your name and address on the back of the photo along with a few details, and mail to The Post-Journal, Best Shots, c/o Family Desk, P.O. Box 190, Jamestown, NY 14702-0190. Please submit only one photo per family, and include an S.A.S.E. for the return of the photo. We reserve the right to return any photo unpublished. Photos and caption information may also be emailed to family@post-journal.com or submitted via our Facebook fan page.

Writer Gets Her Kicks On Route 66: Part Seven

Editor's Note: Part eight of the Route 66 column was inadvertently published ahead of part seven in the Oct. 16 edition of The Post-Journal.Our recent trip on Historic Route 66 was the road trip of my dreams and I have been on many road trips! I find these United States to be just as beautiful and far more interesting than the six cruises, including a visit to Panama Canal, that my husband and I have taken in the last 3 years.On the evening we arrived in Tucumcari, New Mexico, we had dinner at Del's Restaurant where the waiters wore cowboy hats and where we pressed another copper ...

Recollections Of Bemus

Sometimes a pretty place is more than a place. Irish poet Seamus Heaney wrote, "I was there. Me in place and the place in me." Place stays with us. It's a part of us. It illuminates memory half a century past. Bemus Point is that kind of place for me. The tourists of summer have gone now. It's mid-October. Mainly, it's just locals strolling Lakeside Drive on a Sunday afternoon. We park at the Casino. We sit on a bench. We remember.The formidable Hotel Lenhart has closed its doors for another season. It sits golden and shadowed amidst trees full of color. The resilient red geraniums ...

Celebrating Halloween With Your Pets

I love fall and decorating with Indian corn, and pumpkins and I love the Halloween decorations of jack-o-lanterns, and black cats. If you have pets, though, you need to consider how well your decorations and your pets mix.For instance, I love bittersweet, but bittersweet berries don't love cats and dogs. If ingested, they can cause weakness, convulsions, and vomiting and diarrhea. For that reason, I keep any bittersweet in the center of a table, well away from the edge so that if any berries drop, they will drop on the table surface, and not on the floor where a curious Corgi can find ...

I Came For The Food, Not The Dancing

I don't like to dance.I'm not very good at it, so maybe that's why I don't like to. When I go to a wedding it is the elephant in the room. I know at some point my wife is going to ask me and I know I can't say "no."When our household decides to sign our life away to a cable provider I feel like I was just invited to a wedding. I'm going for the food and drinks and I'm going to have to "dance" at some point.Why do cable providers insist on having ushers when they could have a best man? I'd be loyal, a supporter if only they encouraged me to do so. Instead, I have one foot out the door and ...