David Hemond
@davidhemond.bsky.social
Retired lawyer, ground hog aficionado. Formerly Chief Attorney, Connecticut Law Revision Commission. See Dave Hemond’s Fleet Street davidhemond.wordpress.com Eyes and ears open for the good stuff.
Veterans Day - or Armistice Day! Here’s Dad, 1945, Lieutenant, US Army Signal Corp, in the Philippines.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Veterans Day - or Armistice Day! Here’s Dad, 1945, Lieutenant, US Army Signal Corp, in the Philippines.
Thanks Ridge. We have a new set of kitties, gifted by a feral mom, to keep us occupied. Very sweet pains in the rear. This is Leo who manages to be simultaneously “most concerned” and “a wild thing”. 😀
October 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thanks Ridge. We have a new set of kitties, gifted by a feral mom, to keep us occupied. Very sweet pains in the rear. This is Leo who manages to be simultaneously “most concerned” and “a wild thing”. 😀
Perhaps I’ll go with a ‘32 Bugatti?
September 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Perhaps I’ll go with a ‘32 Bugatti?
Why limit yourself? This is the backyard in Mystic with my English Ford in back.
September 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Why limit yourself? This is the backyard in Mystic with my English Ford in back.
I’m going for my brother’s 60 MGA but I’ll make room for the Karmann Ghia! (Why does autocorrect make it Ghislaine one wonders?)
September 11, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I’m going for my brother’s 60 MGA but I’ll make room for the Karmann Ghia! (Why does autocorrect make it Ghislaine one wonders?)
I don’t want my chain saws to get lonely Wayne! Don’t ask how many I’ve got! This is my Oregon chain sharpener. Need to get the maid to do some organizing! (2 fingers and a thumb not so bad.) 🤪
September 7, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I don’t want my chain saws to get lonely Wayne! Don’t ask how many I’ve got! This is my Oregon chain sharpener. Need to get the maid to do some organizing! (2 fingers and a thumb not so bad.) 🤪
Leo and Apollo, the boys, 2 of the 3 kittens gifted to us by the feral torty Rory. Lap cats for all that.
August 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Leo and Apollo, the boys, 2 of the 3 kittens gifted to us by the feral torty Rory. Lap cats for all that.
My ‘65 Dodge D-200 back in the day! Slant six! 3 on the tree! What’s not to love?
August 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
My ‘65 Dodge D-200 back in the day! Slant six! 3 on the tree! What’s not to love?
Did you see my recent picture of a dust devil at the farm? One year I saw a line of them. Eerie.
August 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Did you see my recent picture of a dust devil at the farm? One year I saw a line of them. Eerie.
I assume that’s a crayfish but blue lobsters are also a thing. About one in two million. See my less than successful lobstering adventures. No I never saw one. 😄
August 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I assume that’s a crayfish but blue lobsters are also a thing. About one in two million. See my less than successful lobstering adventures. No I never saw one. 😄
This bugs me no end. The science of climate change is undebatable and increasingly well documented. For the record, I’m going to plug my brother - MIT professor - Harry’s book, Chemical Fare and Transport in the Environment. It’s literally all there. They don’t get to rewrite it.
August 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This bugs me no end. The science of climate change is undebatable and increasingly well documented. For the record, I’m going to plug my brother - MIT professor - Harry’s book, Chemical Fare and Transport in the Environment. It’s literally all there. They don’t get to rewrite it.
The orange tabbies, Apollo and Leo, are boys. Noire’s a girl. No dogs at the moment. They’re a good lot. Here they are with mom before Noire’s accident. Mom a very smart good mom but too feral for her own good - took off when we captured, caged Noire.
August 8, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The orange tabbies, Apollo and Leo, are boys. Noire’s a girl. No dogs at the moment. They’re a good lot. Here they are with mom before Noire’s accident. Mom a very smart good mom but too feral for her own good - took off when we captured, caged Noire.
This is Noire, gifted to us with two orange tabbies by a very feral tortoiseshell who then up and left. Noire promptly caught her leg in the outdoor furniture making herself “on the expensive side”. The things we do. A cutie!
August 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This is Noire, gifted to us with two orange tabbies by a very feral tortoiseshell who then up and left. Noire promptly caught her leg in the outdoor furniture making herself “on the expensive side”. The things we do. A cutie!
There she is coming up the hill in Vermont!
August 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
There she is coming up the hill in Vermont!
Back in the day, bro had a 47 Studebaker pickup I occasionally drove to school. As hip as I’d ever get. Rather like this one - can’t find a good picture at the moment of the real one.
August 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Back in the day, bro had a 47 Studebaker pickup I occasionally drove to school. As hip as I’d ever get. Rather like this one - can’t find a good picture at the moment of the real one.
Something like this actually. Not sure about this color.😀
August 8, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Something like this actually. Not sure about this color.😀
My brother’s slant-six Dodge Dart - basically a Plymouth Valiant - that he bought while in the Coast Guard for a couple hundred, discounted due to a minor glitch in the shift linkage. Drove it cross country at least once. Well over a couple hundred thousand here. 3 on tree, bench seats. Unstoppable.
August 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My brother’s slant-six Dodge Dart - basically a Plymouth Valiant - that he bought while in the Coast Guard for a couple hundred, discounted due to a minor glitch in the shift linkage. Drove it cross country at least once. Well over a couple hundred thousand here. 3 on tree, bench seats. Unstoppable.
Have you met Elijah? Highly recommended! Hic.
August 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Have you met Elijah? Highly recommended! Hic.
Great bench seats! My prom car back in the day! (60 Plymouth slant 6). Brrrm!
July 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Great bench seats! My prom car back in the day! (60 Plymouth slant 6). Brrrm!
My dad was a “can do” type - an engineer - identify a problem, figure out how to fix it, fix it. A sub engineer at EB, it’s what he did. What I was taught. My favorite book? The Man in the Manhole - fixit, fixit, here come the fixit men. See Gore’s Inconvenient Problem. What happened to that ethos?
July 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My dad was a “can do” type - an engineer - identify a problem, figure out how to fix it, fix it. A sub engineer at EB, it’s what he did. What I was taught. My favorite book? The Man in the Manhole - fixit, fixit, here come the fixit men. See Gore’s Inconvenient Problem. What happened to that ethos?
Without the farmer and his immigrant laborers, you will be hungry, naked, and sober. If you’re MAGA, it’s what you deserve.
July 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Without the farmer and his immigrant laborers, you will be hungry, naked, and sober. If you’re MAGA, it’s what you deserve.
Thanks Ellen. Happy Dad’s Day you all. Here’s my dad, Lt, US Army Signal Corp, in the Philippines, 1945.
June 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Thanks Ellen. Happy Dad’s Day you all. Here’s my dad, Lt, US Army Signal Corp, in the Philippines, 1945.
Off the back porch! 😀
May 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Off the back porch! 😀
Happy Mother’s Day. This is my mom in 1944 after she had driven home to Holyoke, Mass from California where she had followed dad, an officer in the signal corps. Drove home once he shipped, she’s here with Matilda, a late 1930s Plymouth they still had when I was born in 1950.
May 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Happy Mother’s Day. This is my mom in 1944 after she had driven home to Holyoke, Mass from California where she had followed dad, an officer in the signal corps. Drove home once he shipped, she’s here with Matilda, a late 1930s Plymouth they still had when I was born in 1950.
I had the multiband tall as me “boat anchor” floorstand RCA? with the wire antenna snaking up to the curtain rods and the “magic eye” tuning tube. Very cool. WOR and WINS, Jean Shepherd, Murray the K, from New York, Pittsburgh on a good night! Had to shut the door cuz Mom! Good stuff! This era.
March 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I had the multiband tall as me “boat anchor” floorstand RCA? with the wire antenna snaking up to the curtain rods and the “magic eye” tuning tube. Very cool. WOR and WINS, Jean Shepherd, Murray the K, from New York, Pittsburgh on a good night! Had to shut the door cuz Mom! Good stuff! This era.