First, thank goodness that storm that could have been as devastating as Super Storm Sandy didn’t pack the same punch, but in Colorado the wildfires still pose considerable threat. Isolated thunderstorms are predicted for the area today, but the storms will have lots of high, gusting winds, but little rain. The Black Forest fire, which […]
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My blog today will be an excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck – which is still looking for a publishing home, by the way. I still have company from our long weekend celebration that I mentioned on Friday, so I don’t want to spend time on the computer that
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Please welcome our funny friend, Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. This piece resonates with me as I have often wondered the “why” of lawns and lawn care. Enjoy. And if you like what Slim shares here, you might enjoy his book, Home Country, which is a collection of his essays. Great gift for Father’s
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Camp RedemptionRaymond L. Atkins File Size: 449 KBPrint Length: 240 pagesPublisher: Mercer University Press (March 1, 2013)Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.Language: EnglishASIN: B00BT0AFLO Every now and then an author comes along who so vividly portrays a place and it’s people that you believe you are there with them. Laura Lippman does that with Baltimore,
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Please help me welcome Slim Randles, our favorite humorist, as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. I’m not sure I want Windy writing ad copy for me… “From the cow to the plow, Dewey,” Windy said, leaning on a shovel. Windy Wilson was on another of his “helper days” and today it was Dewey Decker’s turn to be
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We’re crawling because we can no longer walk. At least I can’t. When Cairn Rodrigues asked me to join the party tonight, I failed to tell her that one glass of wine is about all I can handle. There were days…. but then those were many days ago. Years ago when my writing partner suggested
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Here is yet another bit of humor from our friend, Slim Randles. Enjoy…. Those of us who call this little valley home have a unique blessing in the form of Perry, our dentist. Yes, when we go to get the fangs fixed up at O’Dontall Dental, down in the old brick building near the office
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The most talked about news story this week has been about the Cleveland kidnap victims Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michele Knight who were allegedly subjected to years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of suspect Ariel Castro. This happened in a populated area of the city, not in some remote rural area,
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It’s hard to get back into the normal routine of my posts after the month-long A to Z Challenge, and I didn’t get my usual Friday’s Odds and Ends post ready for today. Since I will be gone all day to an author event at a library, I don’t have time to put a blog
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Now that the A to Z Challenge is over, I’m back to my regular schedule of blog posts. Today, Slim Randles is Wednesday’s Guest with some more fun from the folks at the Mule Barn coffee shop. Enjoy…. “I don’t know about all this, Honey,” Dewey said. “It sounds pretty complicated. The way it is
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