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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...
Once again this week, we’ll just kind of wander around, with a little bit of this...and a little bit of that...
Guess I missed the announcement about the speed limit on new U.S. Route 51 changing to something like 125 miles per hour. Apparently, tailgating at a high rate of speed continues to be...
Union County’s weather during the last week has been deja vu all over again...
Around the middle of the month during February way back in 2021, Mother Nature sent us a bit of an icy Valentine’s Day greeting.
On Valentine’s Day last year, the high temperature in Union County was T-W-E-L-V-E degrees...
Hope springs eternal...
We’ll get back to that in a few paragraphs...in the meantime, read on...
Hope you’ve finished your shopping for all of those Groundhog Day gifts... The big day is February 2.
Did you happen to watch those NFL playoff games on television last weekend. Pretty... good... stuff...
Oh, dear, no deer...
We’ll get back to that in just a little bit...
Last Thursday afternoon, yours truly stayed in what has pretty much become a weekly routine. I paid a regular visit to the seat of county government in Jonesboro, and then headed over to the nearby Lincoln Memorial Picnic Grounds...
Once again this week, we’re going to wander around a little bit... Mainly because it’s Monday afternoon and my self-imposed deadline to complete this little gem has long since come and gone. (Then it was Monday evening...Monday night
The National Football League playoffs are about to begin. Pretty...
Some things that made me go... hmmmmm...or, maybe...huh?
It was 72 degrees on our front porch on the afternoon of Christmas Day... A little over a week later, on the afternoon of the second day of a brand new year, it was 27 degrees...and there were flurries of snow a-falling...
Then there was......
As mentioned last week, it’s the season for traditions. That’s why you get to see some photographs of critters again this week.
Before we get to the critters, a few words about a couple of other holiday traditions...
...yours truly made an annual Christmas Eve journey. The adventure did not involve...
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