Gregory Freeland, 60, of Houghton died Thursday, July 5, 2012 due to injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.  Services are pending with Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel, Groton.

• Dear Readers:  This column is one I wrote 5 years ago. Recently, I was asked to re-release it. Enjoy.
• My husband is part genius, and part closet redneck.  He's a cross between

Bill Nye the Science Guy and Larry the Cable Guy.  Sometimes it's difficult for him to keep the two sides going in the same direction at the same time.  Life is never boring around our house.
• He's always got a project going, too.  Like any redneck worth his salt, he'd like to buy an old car and "trick it out".  But his Bill Nye side kicks in at the oddest moments.  His idea of tricking out a car means putting solar panels on the roof and figuring out how to make it fly.
• Last weekend, while I was away, he decided that the kids should have a tire swing in the back yard.  It was apparently also a good day to use his chainsaw.  The redneck in him took out his chainsaw, found a branch about a hundred feet in the

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