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A winter safety story

Mar 12, 2021
Mar 12, 2021

Lounge pants on clothesline — Photo courtesy Stephanie Leonard

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Days ahead of deadline, I’m sitting down to write this month’s Safety Watch. Distraction and procrastination being normal phases of my writing, I gaze at birds out the window and notice a winter’s worth of dirty, melty crud in the bird bath. I decide to clean it and put out fresh water.

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