I have what looks like a second dock and a second command-tab window?

In my house we've got two macs using the wi-fi, a Mac Pro late 2013 running Yosemite and a Mac Mini also running Yosemite. What's strange is sometimes I get what looks like a second dock with only one icon, Chrome (my default browser). The Chrome icon has a little circle with a monitor above it. When I command-tab, that same icon is in a second command-tab box, and it's there even when Chrome is closed. I can't figure out how to make these things go away. Here are pictures to show what I'm talking about:
and the tab-box:
Thanks!

Are you using continuity/hand-off?
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