Toads Whew! Thankfully – as it turns out – they may have never left. Last night at our brief nine o’clock walk Ernie just off the carport slab bumped his nose into something. I flicked on my flashlight and there it was: a new small toad. He is different because his color and pattern on the back are a tad
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[This event really happened. The article first appeared in December, 2005, in a webzine that I had with my daughter. In view of the recent killing-by-rifle of a gorilla in a zoo in Ohio I dust this off and offer it here in desktodirt. Please do not attribute any political motives to this story: there aren’t any. In my case, respecting animals is non-partisan.] After
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Asheville, North Carolina. Imagine walking around a downtown corner bumping into a Pinball Museum! And it’s not your normal Touch-It-On-Pain-of-Death museum; here visitors are expressly invited to play its relics. [See image below.] My reason for becoming animated by Asheville was that in the 1970’s I had one of these, an old wooden 1940’s model. [The image above is just
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After driving for ten hours you begin to think about a modest treat to end the day. And so it was last week returning to Texas from New York; an urgent family situation made the snap-trip necessary. The last time I checked – a few years ago – Italian was still the most numerous of ethnic food restaurants in America.
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