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Some special advice shared with me recently came to mind after I stood out in the dark last Sunday night and watched a total eclipse of the moon.
I hope you had an opportunity to watch the eclipse. Especially the part of the eclipse when the color of the moon changed to a reddish-orange. It did....
Can a groundhog be self-confidently smug? I’m pretty sure the roundish rodent we saw one day during the past week was pretty smug.
The Other Half happened to see the critter while looking out the back door. The groundhog appeared to be taking a break on the deck in front of the shed in our backyard...
Persistent.
As defined in “Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language...The Everyday Encyclopedic Edition...Enlarged From The Concise Edition,” persistent is “1. continuing, especially in the face of opposition, etc.; stubborn. 2. continuing to exist or endure. 3. constantly repeated;...
Some folks...actually a lot of folks...don’t like snakes much...
I suppose it all goes back to that little encounter in the garden that involved our good friend Eve, an apple (or some other form of fruit) and a serpent (that was crafty, cunning and subtle).
As you may remember, yours truly has no...
Tuesday morning, as yours truly was preparing for the daily journey to The Paragraph Factory, I happened to notice that everyone was taking a morning nap...
The Other Half...taking a nap. Cat one...taking a nap. Cat two...taking a nap. Cat three...taking a nap. It was like the night before...
Went for a walk last Sunday afternoon...
Saw a fellow traveler on The Journey Through Life. His pace was much faster than mine, in that he was jogging and I was...not...
Based on previous encounters...his jogging was in terms of miles...while my walking was in terms of...blocks...
Meanwhile...
John...
Just another Friday morning...
...which, I suppose, was a little better than last Thursday morning...
We had an appointment in Cape Girardeau at about 11:30 a.m. last Thursday. We finished up a little bit after noon, and began the journey home.
We made it across the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge...
It’s late on Sunday night...just never know when inspiration might strike...
A cataclysmic event involving an asteroid didn’t happen over the weekend...at least not that I am aware of. Didn’t see anything about such an occurrence on social media.
Bob and I spent some time on the front stoop last...
We’ll open this week with a “mea culpa,” which is Latin for “boy, that was dumb...”
Last week, in the News Notes column which appeared on page one of the local newspaper, the editor (that would be yours truly) wrote that filing for the 2022 primary election would start on March 14.
Wrong. Filing...
The Journey Through Life during the past week or so was highlighted by all sorts of interesting things... but mainly the weather... again... seems like that’s been a weekly thing for a while.
Crocuses finally started to bloom in our front yard last week. We had about a half dozen plants in bloom...
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