The word class isn’t used much anymore. It did mean knowing and appreciating the finer things in life; respectful interaction with all peoples; behaving appropriately to the occasion. And it wasn’t connected to income. My ethnic European grandparents had it despite so-called humble beginnings. The Kardashians, Housewives of Youpickacity, the antics of Alex Baldwin and Justin Bieber are prime examples
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On a recent trip that took me through the Texas Panhandle I imaged a few of the unique road signs. As soon as I saw this one – and did a ueee to get the picture – a number of thoughts came to mind. Is this sign to help ET’s get a flat tire changed, or a fill-up? Is NASA
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Begin Part II of II – Wednesday evening, 8 October, 2014 It was about nine o’clock and completely dark outside. Inside I turned on my radio and began listening to Clyde Lewis’ Ground Zero program. Before I settled in to hear this stimulating mix of government conspiracies, world domination plots, UFO sightings and numerology, I went back outside to see
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[This is a continuation of the article posted around mid-day on 8 October. You might want to read that first. The events described below – hard to believe – are true and took place later, between five and ten o-clock p.m. that same day.] It was another hot, humid afternoon in South Central Texas. I went outside to see how
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The saga of my three spiders continues. [By the way, locally they are called Banana Spiders.] Uno is gone and has never returned. Dos, well, as of this morning she may be leaving too. I wasn’t greeted with her happy face as usual. [They smile even though they spend most of their life hanging upside down working hard, which you’d
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Yep, pardner. And why not? There are things that can’t wait for tomorrows. Having a horse on a spit of land is one of them. Back in the Eighties my then wife and I got two wild burros through the Bureau of Land Management’s [BLM] Adoption Program. Pancho and Cisco had been culled from Death Valley, California. In their case
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Last week I was on the road driving long distance bisecting the country south to north – Texas to Montana – and return. While in Texas, which was a large portion of the trek, I took pictures of some of the road signs of unique-named destinations. The added caption came to mind the instant I saw Fluvanna. There will be more one-offs, if
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My mother asked that question rhetorically many times of our family dogs as we were growing up. But what do animals ponder? Or can they? That question stuck with me and seems more intriguing as the years pass now surrounded by differing animals in a farm setting. The bird you can barely see at the top of the tree is a Red-shouldered
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I returned home from a few days of road travel and quickly checked to see if the shack was okay, it was. And I expected to see my three stalwart spiders still hanging on their respective webs; Dos and Tres were, but the oldest of the three – Uno – was nowhere to be found. It sounds strange to be
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One man’s humor is another persons offense. Relax and just enjoy – for an instant – the cleverness. It has got to make you smile.
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