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This is the scenario: If I am not at work in 10 minutes I will no longer have a need for banks, which is where I happen to be right now, cruising in my car across the parking lot at… READ MORE
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This is the story of a woman, a river, and a concussion. The woman’s name is Debbie; the river has many names, none of them printable here; and the concussion … I guess it was my fault. I told Debbie… READ MORE
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Here is everything you need to know about the contemporary music scene: (Important note to readers who are about to stop reading and write me nasty letters calling me a tone-deaf burrowing parasite for ridiculing contemporary music: This is not… READ MORE
Photo courtesy of the Australian Institute of Marine Science
My ex-best friends Jim Shrine and Joann Schumann, who work here at the newspaper, recently returned from a vacation in Mexico. They didn’t invite me, of course. But that’s OK. I don’t mind. Really. Just because those two drain clogs… READ MORE
This was our campsite outside of Lessburg, Florida, in the early 1970s The campground was overrun with gnats. Photo by Del Stone Sr.
My camping adventure comes to a merciful close at a campground we christened “Gnat City.” Gnat City lies somewhere in the vicinity of Leesburg, which lies somewhere in the vicinity of the Twilight Zone. Gnat City is memorable for (A)… READ MORE
On the way to Camp Do-Not we spotted this waterspout in the distance. Maybe you can see it in the red box. Or maybe I'm lying. By this time we were delerious with heat stroke because Dad refused to turn on the AC in the car because it dropped the gas mileage by 2 mpg. These days I run the car AC in the dead of winter with 8 inches of snow on the ground. Photo by Joyce Stone.
Sadly, it is time for us to end our idyllic week at Manatee Springs State Park and move on to another Campground from Unspoiled Hell. In the 20 or so seconds it takes us to pack our belongings, I stop… READ MORE
Here are the continuing highlights of my camping adventures at Manatee Springs State Park, and elsewhere: The coral snake: Just as the Indians did hundreds of years ago, we sally forth from our campsite in the morning to gather provisions,… READ MORE
The women in the backshop are standing there putting together a jigsaw puzzle, and I want this madness to stop right now because they’ve almost got it finished and I could never get past unwrapping the box. You’d have to… READ MORE
I recently had an opportunity to take a midwinter vacation, and because I didn’t want to spend a lot of money traveling somewhere, I decided to spend this week right here in Florida, the tourist capital of the United States,… READ MORE
Image courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski by way of a Creative Commons license. https://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/
As a homeowner, I have had my eyes opened to a range of marvelous new experiences, many of them requiring the absence of money. One such experience is a clogged drain. In the halcyon days of my youth, a clogged… READ MORE