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Wildlife – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? City Girl Spends Holiday Week in Winter Wilderness Wonderland. Holidays in the city were crowded with strangers and the nerve-jangling noise of false holiday cheer in background music. Here, there was the crunch of snow, and abundant visits from animals we seldom see, who for a change came down to where we live. This was the second Audubon Christmas bird count in the area; another one took place a week before Christmas. Three ducks, who...

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Love Letters – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? The Place Where People Fall in Love. 8220;I just fell in love.” I can’t count how often the story ends in those four words, when I ask people how they came to be in Dubois. Sometimes “we” is substituted for “I.”. Joe and his wife were rounding the corner at the main intersection for the first time when one of them said, “This looks like a good place to retire.” And so they did. What is it about this place? The charm of the small village...

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Remoteness – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? Telecommuter Appreciation Town: Dubois WY. Tools down, but back up leaving time for a hike. Who knew that I had chosen to down tools and leave town during Telecommuter Appreciation Week,. Which is set for the first week in March? Instead, I’m celebrating Telecommut ING. 8220;They should call you by early afternoon,” he said. 8221; I replied. “I’ll just call DTE myself at 8 AM.”. I know I’m not the only lucky person who benefits fr...

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Community Spirit – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? The Place Where People Fall in Love. 8220;I just fell in love.” I can’t count how often the story ends in those four words, when I ask people how they came to be in Dubois. Sometimes “we” is substituted for “I.”. Joe and his wife were rounding the corner at the main intersection for the first time when one of them said, “This looks like a good place to retire.” And so they did. What is it about this place? The charm of the small village...

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Remote Shopping: Spending (and Saving) in Dubois – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? Remote Shopping: Spending (and Saving) in Dubois. How do we get what we need or can’t resist? Count the ways …. We had to deliver some boxes of documents to a friend in Oklahoma, which gave me the chance to revisit a guilty pleasure: Wasting time in big box stores. Now, what to do with the old ones? I could just donate them to the Op Shop. It’s fun to wander these virtual “aisles,” just to see what’s on offer, fr...Not long ago, some ch...

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Neversweat: The Details – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? Musings about an old name, and changes in communication. One of the many myths about Dubois is that the town originally applied to the US Postal Service to name itself “Neversweat,” and was refused. Charming, but not exactly true. According to the definitive oral history by Esther Mockler. The Senator who served the Wyoming Territory on the Postal Service didn’t like the proposal, and named the town after himself. Back in those days, ma...

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Wilderness, Desert, Heaven, and Here – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? Wilderness, Desert, Heaven, and Here. In a better world, I wouldn’t need to carry water. But still …. 8220;I don’t know what it is,” Andrea said to me the other day. “There’s just something about it. You get out there and you just feel happy.”. I have been known to remark that Dubois resembles the kingdom of heaven, because so many of our entertaining events take place for the benefit of charity. Waters shall break forth in the wilderne...

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LivingDubois – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? I am a retired science journalist, devoted to enjoying and recording the many pleasures of life in the Wyoming's Upper Wind River Valley. Telecommuter Appreciation Town: Dubois WY. Tools down, but back up leaving time for a hike. Who knew that I had chosen to down tools and leave town during Telecommuter Appreciation Week,. Which is set for the first week in March? Instead, I’m celebrating Telecommut ING. I know I’m not the only l...

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Why I’m Dreaming of a Wild Christmas – Living Dubois

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82513 WY: This is the life! Living in Dubois: What Could Be Sweeter? Why I’m Dreaming of a Wild Christmas. A cowboy, not a fashion model, it sucks it up and holds on. Here’s our first Christmas tree in Dubois. It’s anything but perfect: a bit lopsided and tippy, with lots of gaps between branches and not many of those in the first place. We had to run two guy-lines away from the trunk to keep it stable. 8221; he called out from close behind me. For the first time in my decade here, I had a scintilla of u...