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The “Trains of Christmas”: Be a Kid All Over Again

The “Trains of Christmas”: Be a Kid All Over Again

Ever since I was little, I’ve loved model trains (and that ladies and gentlemen – is a long time).  I love to watch them wind around the track, chugging through tiny worlds that are lovingly created in exact detail.  There are tiny shops, tiny trees, and tiny people.  It fascinates me, and I could stare at model railroad displays for hours. I can fondly remember traveling out to the Hagerstown Fairgrounds when I was a wee lad to view the…

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The Holiday Rush Has Arrived!

The Holiday Rush Has Arrived!

Well, we held out as long as we could in the Snyder household (at my insistence), but come the break of the post-Thanksgiving dawn on Friday, November 25th, my youngest began the constant barrage of “Dad, when are we going to put up the Christmas tree?”  Honestly, she should be sent to Gitmo as an interrogator, as I’m convinced she could break every dangerous prisoner there inside of a week.  (For those of you wondering – the tree went up…

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