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Prattling before the Pratfall

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  1. DOuG pRATt on Retirement TiresMay 30, 2025

    I'm thinking ahead about home improvements for when I'm gone. :-)

  2. tastewar on Retirement TiresMay 30, 2025

    "To minimize charge time" -- sure, but didn't you just say you drive about 4,000 miles/year? There would probably be…

  3. DOuG pRATt on The Semi-Crime Fighting PenMay 30, 2025

    Fun fact: uni-ball is a Mitsubishi company. I'm about to fire up my 40-year-old Mitsubishi DA-R20 receiver.

  4. DOuG pRATt on Retirement TiresMay 30, 2025

    If I were to get a plug-in hybrid, 220V power in the garage would be needed to minimize charge time.

  5. tastewar on Retirement TiresMay 30, 2025

    I am ready for an all electric car, and one will almost certainly be my next vehicle. Most of the…

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Category: Life with Pratts

Mom Before Me

Here’s a very nice portrait of my late mother, Joanne Waffle Pratt. I believe this was taken after she had her first baby, my sister the doctor. I don’t know when studio photography done in this style fell out of fashion, but stylish and fashionable it was!

Posted on October 10, 2006May 8, 2023Categories All Posts, Life with Pratts

Joanne Waffle Pratt (1927-2005)

My late mother’s maiden name was, no fooling, Waffle. She graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York the semester before Grace Kelly started there.

American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Class of 1946

Posted on September 20, 2006May 8, 2023Categories All Posts, Life with PrattsLeave a comment on Joanne Waffle Pratt (1927-2005)

Pratt’s Bats

With the presence of Eastern Equine Encephalitis and West Nile Virus here in Massachusetts, we’re hoping to get some tenants in our new bat house next spring. It has a Batman emblem on it, so I couldn’t resist. The bats will eat the mosquitoes, and that’s good, but what about rabid bats?

Posted on September 17, 2006January 27, 2007Categories All Posts, Life with Pratts5 Comments on Pratt’s Bats

Pratt Attack – 4

The movie It’s a Wonderful Life was based on a short story called The Greatest Gift, which starts with these sentences:

The little town straggling up the hill was bright with colored Christmas lights. But George Pratt did not see them.

This is the George Pratt I know. My dad. Mom is gone.

Posted on September 10, 2006April 9, 2023Categories All Posts, Life with Pratts3 Comments on Pratt Attack – 4

Pratt Attack – 3

The very last sketch on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, before they shut down production to work on Holy Grail, made fun of … Pratts.

Note: This video may offend others besides Pratts.

Posted on September 9, 2006October 12, 2014Categories All Posts, Life with Pratts2 Comments on Pratt Attack – 3

Pratt Attack – 2

Bill Pratt’s stage name was Boris Karloff. Pratts don’t always make friends easily.

Posted on September 9, 2006April 22, 2010Categories All Posts, Life with PrattsLeave a comment on Pratt Attack – 2

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