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New Mexico Fun

Here are some photos from our recent trip to New Mexico. We enjoyed our time in Santa Fe, Taos, and Albuquerque.

Shred Letter Day

It started out as a good idea. I saw on the news this morning that the Attorney General was hosting a shredder day at a Baltimore high school. Although the event was free, donations could be made for the benefit of Junior Achievement. "Great" I thought, "I love JA. It will be worth a donation to get rid of that big box of paper in my office". For the past several years, I've had some accumulated paper that came from cleaning out old files or from tossing into the mix junk mail for credit cards and other offers. I started hand shredding it but soon realized it would take a month of Sundays to just make a dent. I figured sooner or later I'd make one of those community shredding days. Lloyd and I filled two large trash bags and took off to securely rid ourselves of old bills, pay stubs, ancient tax returns, medical information, and all manner of stuff that the dumpster divers would love to get their mitts on. And we were joined by hundreds of our close