tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77530752024-03-14T01:00:55.000-04:00The (not even close to) Daily SnoozeWilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2065125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-56049341604111660092016-09-30T15:03:00.001-04:002016-09-30T15:03:29.839-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
HI Daily Snooze readers,<br />
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This is Wil's wife, Tammi. <br />
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Wil unexpectably passed away on August 29, 2016 @ 11:47pm of a massive heart attack at home. <br />
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Wil enjoyed many things in life, writing was one he loved dearly.<br />
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heart broken in Maine,<br />
SWMBO</div>
Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-26087428961045736902016-08-25T15:24:00.001-04:002016-08-25T15:24:27.832-04:00Hanging out at Truck Works of Maine ...<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y357ZrnNh5Y/V79F7DBeYLI/AAAAAAAAFAM/7I_Z8tLsuNEr8M906ILCvX1dJRyln_k1wCK4B/s1600/20160825_145431-767833.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y357ZrnNh5Y/V79F7DBeYLI/AAAAAAAAFAM/7I_Z8tLsuNEr8M906ILCvX1dJRyln_k1wCK4B/s320/20160825_145431-767833.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6322849282577555634" /></a></p><p dir="ltr">While the techs install new running boards to replace the OEM units which failed when SAMBO stepped on the drivers side a couple weeks ago tomorrow. Later that day, I opened my left leg from ankle to knee when another piece broke off as I got out of the truck.</p> Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-73147977027654468432016-07-18T21:48:00.000-04:002016-07-18T21:49:05.726-04:00Storm-downed trees<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u-0EqLD1lgI/V42HEiPVDuI/AAAAAAAAE-k/4czGM7UUhUgBN7y8euCKbP5DzONu4kMCwCK4B/s1600/photo%2B1-745727.JPG"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u-0EqLD1lgI/V42HEiPVDuI/AAAAAAAAE-k/4czGM7UUhUgBN7y8euCKbP5DzONu4kMCwCK4B/s320/photo%2B1-745727.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6308847164996259554" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nnCEfCyyJDA/V42HE0cGs0I/AAAAAAAAE-s/gBpDigpRzr83bKZmBDC0jE04ez4Qcw5VACK4B/s1600/photo%2B2-747174.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nnCEfCyyJDA/V42HE0cGs0I/AAAAAAAAE-s/gBpDigpRzr83bKZmBDC0jE04ez4Qcw5VACK4B/s320/photo%2B2-747174.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6308847169881682754" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F_dUXwlSqoE/V42HFDr-ApI/AAAAAAAAE-0/19U-QvPFrSYzPPkZDIKKivGUyL3YoOZ_QCK4B/s1600/photo%2B3-748125.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F_dUXwlSqoE/V42HFDr-ApI/AAAAAAAAE-0/19U-QvPFrSYzPPkZDIKKivGUyL3YoOZ_QCK4B/s320/photo%2B3-748125.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6308847173974753938" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bdmZcmCyGOE/V42HFY8oJ3I/AAAAAAAAE-8/nMjf77Yylmc5_jRSNz2gfiGsOPtKJLXcwCK4B/s1600/photo%2B4-749080.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bdmZcmCyGOE/V42HFY8oJ3I/AAAAAAAAE-8/nMjf77Yylmc5_jRSNz2gfiGsOPtKJLXcwCK4B/s320/photo%2B4-749080.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6308847179681769330" /></a></p>Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-40048667864053603022016-07-18T21:46:00.001-04:002016-07-18T21:46:14.990-04:00Severe thunderstorm Amid tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings this afternoon, SWMBO and I battened down the hatches and held on as the closest shelter is six miles away. The line wall hit us broadside with heavy, 60+MPH winds, dime sized hail and gusts of rain reminiscent of a high pressure car wash. The pressure differential was sufficient to overcome the gears for the ceiling vent fan covers, causing them to flap like so many Republicans in Ohio. The fifth wheel rocked side to side like Hillary waffling on immigration reform.
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<br>Then it was over. Oh, heavy rain continued with gusts in the 30 to 40 MPH range for another hour, but for all intents and purposes, the fat lady had taken her bows and left the stage to her understudy. I went and lay down for a nap. An hour or so later there was a loud pounding on the door ... Neighbors up the road had hiked in when they noticed the road in was completely blocked by downed trees! After assuring them we were fine and did not need to go out tonight, they left to get a chainsaw and tractor to yard the half dozen oak and ash trees blocking our drive in three places. I went out and helped for a few hours hauling severed limbs out of the road. Sadly, I'm about as useful as tits on a bull, hauling one limb to others' five, stopping to get enough oxygen to do more than stand to the side wheezing my one lung up.
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<br>After all was said and done, my neighbors came through 150% in our time of need, for which I am extremely grateful. We can get out; ambulances and fire trucks can get in and I only have a week's worth of clean-up ahead of me.
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<br>And So It Goes.
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<br>---***---Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-36265923010830316822016-07-01T14:49:00.001-04:002016-07-01T14:53:51.729-04:00Meet Mosha and Mobila<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A photo essay in the International Telegraph caught my eye today and I'm sharing the link. These two elephants are just two examples of the carnage by left-behind mines, whether from revolutions, anarchy or international conflicts, the damage is the same.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, it's Spring in Maine all of a sudden. One week we're pushing ice out of the way of the boat and the next we're in a fight for our life with a mosquito named "Ziki" carrying an AR-15 and a copy of the Koran, arguing the prophet's interpretation with a moose fly the size of a Buick while a phalanx of the infamous black flies of ISIL fame are attempting to lop off my head with their scimitars. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's Wednesday morning and that means it is time for Iggy's appointment with the Vet for shots and the like. Off we go down the lane, with the previously cited moose flies (similar to horse flies only larger with filed teeth) holding on to the truck mirrors as they scream epitaphs like "Death to the Infidels", "Eat Mor Chiken" and "Allah akhbar Khan". Or maybe it's just the buzzing in my ears. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Realizing where we have turned in to stop, Iggy's joy at going for a ride in the truck is replaced with a sullen "You'll get yours, buster" as he slinks out of the back seat. In through the doors we go, yours truly dragging the reluctant hairy pig, parallel grey scratches on the pavement where he tried to express resistance, He shares a butt sniff with an apricot mini-poodle on her way out and settles in to cowering against my leg awaiting his turn.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Soon enough, Dr. O. is ready for him. She's been his vet for 5 years and despite his disregard, actually likes the little twerp. He allows me to lift him onto the scales where we discover he currently tips those scales at 45 POUNDS! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh my. Breed standard specifies </= 30 lbs. for male schipperkes. Last visit (two years ago; he saw a Baton Rouge practitioner last year) he weighed 32 lbs. and we were chastised for allowing him to get so fat then.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Surprisingly, Dr. O just tsk'ed and continued with the jabbing and poking. Then came the moment he was afraid was coming. New gloves and a great glob of K-Y jell on the Vet means only one thing. I held him tightly and she applied the jell in a judicious fashion to the orifice capable of accommodating her index finger. He turned red -- no mean feat for a black dog, let me tell you -- and expressed his indignation by chewing through my bicep while Dr. O expressed his anal glans. A quick swipe or two with a baby wipe and the indignity was over and he was all cuddles as she sympathetically offered him a biscuit. Me, he didn't have the time of day for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I ran him outside into the truck so he didn't have to repeat the whole shaking and whining thing in the waiting room as I waited to pay the bills. And ouch, they got you (me) by what few short & curlies I still have. It cost almost four times as much as my personal doctor charges for an office visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And So It Goes, y'all.</span><br />
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-80214465544924580182016-04-29T14:39:00.001-04:002016-04-29T14:39:25.276-04:00Grey Spring<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VTKu0q-3qYc/VyOqXg1qIEI/AAAAAAAAE7o/usq3u0jBGCccnUk_eIzUpvkuFVk9pVDZwCK4B/s1600/photo-765277.JPG"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VTKu0q-3qYc/VyOqXg1qIEI/AAAAAAAAE7o/usq3u0jBGCccnUk_eIzUpvkuFVk9pVDZwCK4B/s320/photo-765277.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6279049626413310018" /></a></p>Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-81744690572668596082016-03-22T04:32:00.002-04:002016-03-22T04:32:25.636-04:00The Second Day of Spring My True Love Gave To Me...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Six inches of snow and open water on Pushaw Lake. An odd combination, to say the least. Ice went out a week ago, Sunday. That's a week before Spring and just maybe the earliest date in living memory. The gravel roads are a tiresome slog of mud. Got stuck last night when we turned in off the paved road and I parked to get the mail. Tires were warm from the pavement, snow was unplowed and that makes for a very slick combo. SWMBO had to get out a fish out the shovel and dig out a path for the rear dualies to follow onto the packed down snow of previous travelers. Since heart attack, shoveling is on my "Forbidden List" so she gets that nasty chore. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SWMBO snapped the following from inside the cab of the truck while I was turning off the generator before going in to town. Happy Spring 2016, y'all.</span><br />
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-59461270564947738832016-02-08T07:32:00.002-05:002016-02-08T07:33:21.771-05:00Didn't Go ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Yeah, we're still alive. Just nothing good to write about. Maybe soon. Likely not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Weather - Jack Frost is adding injury to insult with another 6 - 12 inches of snow forecast for this afternoon through tomorrow, 20 to 30 MPH winds from the NE so downed trees and the like a real possibility as that isn't a usual wind direction for us. All on top of the 12" we got three days ago. And I swore to all deities above and below I'd never spend another winter in Maine. A fat lot of good that did me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's danged cold in this trailer and we haven't any option but to sit it out until Spring. Ground never froze hard before snows came, so moving the trailer is out of the question as my 2wd truck would sink out of sight. I look at the weather in Texas (Port O'Conner) and Louisiana (Baton Rouge) and just want to cry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Health has been the bugaboo for me and the missus since summer. Oh joy, now I have medicare, so medicos are up to old tricks of testing, poking and prodding. Going under for a colonoscopy in mid-March. I do hate the prep for that test. The test itself is undignified but anticlimactic. All the real fun occurs in the 36 hours prior to insertion of the camera in the bung hole. SWMBO has had a chest infection that refuses to quit. Her FNP is the laid back, "let's wait and see" type. Not a good fit, but no alternative exists at present.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Iggy has decided that the floor is too cold so he only stands on it to eat or go outside to do the necessary. The rest of his time is spent next to SWMBO on the sofa, on my lap (ouch - he's topping 48 pounds these days) or in bed when we are asleep. Really hates the snow - has taken to going under the trailer for squatting so snow isn't tickling his butt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Miss you all, family, friends, and blog readers. Often in our thoughts, but no phone and only what internet I can steal from neighbors limits contact. So be good. If I don't pop in with an update by June, email your complaints and concerns. Who knows. I might even reply!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And So It Goes...</span><br />
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-54954811077220389412015-09-30T06:18:00.000-04:002015-09-30T06:19:52.267-04:00Urge For GoingDarkness prevails, despite the passage of sunrise, the clouds so thick the rose rays of dawn find no breaks in the cover. Rain pelts steadily on the hatch cover echoing loudly down the vent plenum, thudding softer across the trailer roof. The autumn monsoon has begun. <p>Waterfowl seasons began at dawn, yesterday. SWMBO was vocally unhappy about the twenty-one shotgun salute around us as eager Nimrods blasted the ducks to smithereens in the cove. Not the case today. The weather and bombardments have driven the local quackers to seek safer, more sheltered quarters. So far, knock wood, the hunters have chosen to stay in bed this morning. Time will tell if it's warm blankets or the wet darkness that holds them in abeyance.Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-19502265369262330642015-07-14T19:26:00.000-04:002015-07-14T19:27:00.295-04:00Downsizing<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SciL-SN0U54/VaWaxNH7k-I/AAAAAAAAEoU/OtuPiYegvNQ/s1600/image-720296.jpeg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SciL-SN0U54/VaWaxNH7k-I/AAAAAAAAEoU/OtuPiYegvNQ/s320/image-720296.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6171509034508325858" /></a></p>Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-29448370573819188532015-07-07T08:57:00.001-04:002015-07-07T08:57:17.960-04:00Update: Family Says News Misrepresent The FactsThe family of the dead SFB fellow who blew his mind with a fireworks mortar either did it accidentally by a stray spark or thought the mortar was a dud - see follow-up story here: <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/06/news/down-east/father-says-son-thought-firework-that-killed-him-was-a-dud/?ref=topStories3">http://bangordailynews.com/2015/07/06/news/down-east/father-says-son-thought-firework-that-killed-him-was-a-dud/?ref=topStories3</a><p>The unexpected death of a family member is a staggering emotional upset. My condolences to the family and friends. But the young man in question was an adult, possibly drinking and responsible for his actions. There are no do-overs in real life and his death is a vivid reminder of this fact. Fireworks are no different than a loaded gun, often containing hundreds of times the amount of black powder that a round of ammunition contains. They must be treated with the same respect and caution. There is no argument that Devon failed to exercise the appropriate amount of caution.Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-21095393975812209462015-07-05T18:51:00.001-04:002015-07-05T18:51:46.746-04:00Newest Addition To The ListSadly, I must report this newest addition to the infamous "Darwin List", to wit:<p>Calais man killed after igniting firework on his head<p>By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff<br>July 05, 2015, at 10:24 a.m.<br>CALAIS, Maine — A local man was killed instantly Saturday when he set off a fireworks mortar tube on his head, despite efforts his friends made to stop him, state police said Sunday.<p>I guess you just can't teach common sense to some people.Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-30507313396522145482015-06-27T02:30:00.001-04:002015-06-27T02:37:26.143-04:00We'll be seeing you in all the familiar places...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of our neighbor of thirty eight years, <a href="http://m.legacy.com/obituaries/bdnmaine/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-lee-mcgowen&pid=175119458&referrer=0&preview=false" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barbara McGowen</a>. We were truly blessed when she moved into the ville.</div>
Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-61982899021913743212015-04-01T15:39:00.001-04:002015-04-01T15:41:59.249-04:00Happy April Fools<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Sixteen years ago today, on a balmy spring morning as forsythias set buds and newly emerged grass greened the ugly gray of the more typical Maine early spring, a small gathering of folks at Cascade Park's gazebo looked out over the wreckage of the old Bangor Hydro-Electric flume stocks. The couple standing in the former home of the Bangor Souza Band joined fingers and lives.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It pleases me to remember that day, the celebratory meal at Paul's Restaurant and Speakeasy, and the honeymoon siesta that followed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's hope there are another sixteen in me, m'dear.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b>Now THAT'S what I call Wearing Of The Green!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's Saint Patrick's Day here in the United States. Unlike the Emerald Isle, the snakes are out in full force and I worry each and every time I let the dog out. It's also traditional here to drink oneself silly on this day. AN activity I may no longer participate in as the consequences are dire. Where normal folk eventually conclude they have had enough, I can only say, "Another round, barkeep." Even if I've fallen off my barstool a half dozen times already. Then there is the pugilism streak. Like all small men, I think I'm indefeatable when I have a quart of whiskey in me. And Lord help us all if it's been hard cider, AKA "Johnny Jump Up" that I've been drinking -- then I want to take on the whole bar. Only Tequila makes me meaner. But let's just enjoy the lyrics to the traditional humorous poke at ourselves the Irish call "Johnny Jump Up"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: lime;">Johnny Jump Up</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'll tell you a story that happened to me</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One day as I went down to Cork by the sea</span></div>
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The sun it was hot and the day it was warm,</div>
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Says I a quiet pint wouldn't do me no harm</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went in and I called for a bottle of stout</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Says the barman, I'm sorry, all the beer is sold out</span></div>
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Try whiskey or paddy, ten years in the wood</div>
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Says I, I'll try cider, I've heard it was good.</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh never, Oh never, Oh never again</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If I live to be a hundred or a hundred and ten</span></div>
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I fell to the ground and I couldn't get up</div>
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After drinking a quart of the Johnny Jump Up</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After downing the third I went out to the yard</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where I bumped into Brody, the big civic guard</span></div>
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Come here to me boy, don't you know I'm the law?</div>
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Well, I up with me fist and I shattered his jaw</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He fell to the ground with his knees doubled up</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But it wasn't I hit him, 'twas Johnny Jump Up</span></div>
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The next thing I remember down in Cork by the sea</div>
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Was a cripple on crutches and says he to me</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm afraid of me life I'll be hit by a car</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Won't you help me across to the Celtic Knot Bar?</span></div>
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After downing a quart of that cider so sweet</div>
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He threw down his crutches and danced on his feet</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I went up the lee road, a friend for to see</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They call it the madhouse in Cork by the Sea</span></div>
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Butl when I got there, sure the truth I will tell,</div>
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They had this poor bugger locked up in a cell</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Said the guard, testing him, say these words if you can,</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"Around the rugged rock the ragged rascal ran"</span></div>
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Tell him I'm not crazy, tell him I'm not mad</div>
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It was only a sip of the bottle I had</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, a man died in the mines by the name of McNabb</span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They washed him and laid him outside on the slab</span></div>
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And after the parlors measurements did take</div>
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His wife brought him home to a bloody fine wake</div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Twas about 12 o'clock and the beer was high</span></div>
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-28107916793487780222015-02-04T15:43:00.000-05:002015-02-04T15:43:02.971-05:00Winter Tent Living In Maine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Here's a thought, my fellow fulltimers. Instead of mildly complaining of a little wind and rain, imagine tent living in the Maine woods in January with sub-zero temperatures and two feet of snow. Makes my highball glass shiver, it does. This man lives it, according to <a href="https://collage.bangordailynews.com/2015/02/04/home/pownal-man-faces-blizzard-while-living-in-his-tent-during-winter/">this story in the <i>Bangor Daily News</i></a> .</span><br />
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-53581106656757363652015-01-02T18:47:00.000-05:002015-01-02T18:47:30.619-05:00So it's a new year already...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inauspicious beginnings to 2015. Head cold that has since migrated south to the chesticle regions has me coughing, sneezing, sniffling and taking breathing treatments every few hours (with one lung, it's sorta necessary). Oh joy!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">I was served by a East Baton Rouge Parish constable on New Year's Eve. Seems my neighbors in Maine have a crossed hair about the old vehicles in the dooryard and dilapidated state of the property. Maybe it's really bad, I don't know - it's been over a year since I left. But the Town Council is citing the cars and dilapidation as reason to bring me to court to condemn my home and (everything in it) as well as cite me for running an illegal automobile graveyard. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, fair enough. I am so glad that they are each such paeons of virtue that they can cast the first stone. I sure ain't. What really pisses me off, though, is the fact that this matter is scheduled for hearing in February. I am not released for flight nor extended travel by the Cardiologist. Sure hope I can find a lawyer to help stave this off or I will lose everything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">SO, if I seem a trifle unenthused about the prospect of the new year upon us, at least you know why.</span><br />
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-70926908014875589662014-12-25T14:35:00.001-05:002014-12-25T14:35:16.012-05:00Keep Xmas Weird<p> </p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Fc4Orc-Jo-E/VJxm5yem1fI/AAAAAAAAEbc/Y3_G70VYJX0/s1600-h/full%252520unipiper%252520christmas%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="full unipiper christmas" border="0" alt="full unipiper christmas" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-nmtGYdWOpak/VJxm6ghbLaI/AAAAAAAAEbk/s6Sc1mOCbBs/full%252520unipiper%252520christmas_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="383" height="255" /></a> </p> <p>PHOTO CREDIT: The Musician/Band <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theunipiper">The Unipiper</a>. Used with permission. </p> <p>My sentiments, exactly. That’s how I’d choose to spend the holidays if’n I was only 25 and still drinking…</p> <p>Merry Christmoose, y’all!</p> <p><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-We1zSk6Lqy8/VJxm7vwPyTI/AAAAAAAAEbs/JjZPi15dApo/s1600-h/christmasmoose1%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="christmasmoose1" border="0" alt="christmasmoose1" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-Pw6tqsz8ZxY/VJxm8a2gDiI/AAAAAAAAEb0/v9KzR_aQ_WI/christmasmoose1_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="305" height="335" /></a></p> Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-64473471436999342942014-12-25T14:22:00.001-05:002014-12-25T14:22:52.254-05:00Merry Pugmas<p>Here’s a little something that showed up in my email this morning. Even though I’d never voluntarily choose a Pug as a constant companion (Iggy, the smelly schipperke is quite enough trouble, thank you).</p> <p><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/oDOxZBwGjClfOJzikAvr-Ed2sXYPwl9bW4GF_rv78qprBdP8D6G9AqwI1NLhoxr8lB9ZMawQzHWDzGckueEqlRwEcPkJaU0bTYajog=s0-d-e1-ft#https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5o3BB-CMAEDR-C.jpg:medium" /></p> <p>Merry Christmas, Y’all!</p> Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-51169516871284977272014-12-24T20:12:00.001-05:002014-12-24T20:12:02.090-05:00Deluge Thoughts & Holiday Cheer<p> </p> <p>Almost 3 1/2" of rain dropped by serious thunderstorms all day yesterday as a cold front stalled out overhead. Despite 12 hours of tornado watches, we were spared. Good thing, as getting to the house for shelter involved wading ankle deep in puddles. Iggy was closer to a drowned rat than a Schipperke after a foray to the backyard at midday to relieve a nearly bursting bladder. </p> <p>One of the downsides of that much rain was the unexpected overflowing of the black tank this AM from the rainwater that went down the vent. It was enough that things rather reek in here at the moment. Unpleasant but the odor will be gone in a few days of drying out. Just wasn’t expecting the need for that much <strike>Febreeze</strike> deodorant over the holidays with everything closed. </p> <p>Still, it could be a whole lot worse. I feel badly for the folks NE of here that were hit by tornados. A hard thing at this time of year. Makes it hard for those who had very little to have to start over again with nothing. A donation to the <a href="http://www.redcross.org/">Red Cross</a> would be appropriate if you can spare the funds, a donation of blood if your precious bodily fluid is acceptable is the gift of life, y’know.</p> <p>Nothing big planned for the holidays here. SWMBO is trying to come off Cymbalta without benefit of a titrating dosage and is a cross between an angry dragon and an old sow bear getting ready for hibernation. She can’t help it. Doesn’t make it fun to live with, though. Am firmly of the mind that Doctors who prescribe a medication should know what the issues with discontinuance might be – except this time it was <a href="http://www.lilly.com/Pages/Home.aspx">Eli Lilly & Company</a> that allegedly <a href="http://http://www.salient-news.com/2014/08/cymbalta-withdrawal-lawsuit/">lied to the FDA, the medical community and the patients</a> about the side effects of withdrawal.</p> <p>It’s odd, the falsehoods our brains seize upon and hold onto like a guard dog with a burglar. A certain party, unnamed to protect the guilty, told us we must not use the blue and white snowflake lights we bought last Friday because “only Jews display blue lights at Christmastime.” “Gee,” say I, “there sure must be a lot of Jews in the USA, because from 38,000 feet flying across the country in a jet, I have noted that blue lights are the most likely Christmas lights to be visible at that elevation (red has a much shorter wavelength than blue). Anyway, despite evidence presented to the contrary, I don’t think they were convinced. </p> <p>So, that’s the snooze fit to spill. We’re doing well, everything considered. Hoping to hit the road to warmer climes before too long. I hope you all have safe, happy holidays. Sleep tight, don’t let the Krampus bite, and make sure your fruitcake has been soaked in 101 proof bourbon for at least a year before sampling it.</p> <p><img src="http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee454/teameeat1/Christmas at TeamEEAT/ChristmasCake.jpg" width="388" height="442" /></p> Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-14133389128634653022014-12-20T15:33:00.002-05:002014-12-20T15:33:39.579-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Well, yesterday was a success for me. I hope it was for you, too. An afternoon visit to the Cardiologist revealed the startling news that I managed to lower my Triclycerides by over 900 points! I'm back near-normal. So, one hurdle crossed off - I'm free to resume our traveling plans, if the primary care doctor agrees. That appointment is shortly after the New Year. Got to hustle to be ready for wheels up - hard to do during the holidays.<br />
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Finished Christmas shopping last night, now to wrap and label. Me wrapping presents is like the Marx brothers - except I'm all alone with tape stuck here, and there and <ahem>. No photos, please. </ahem><br />
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Wilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834993203690623780noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7753075.post-7364625419589268162014-12-08T01:33:00.001-05:002014-12-08T01:33:25.493-05:00Interim Report: Baton Rouge, LA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">We survived Thanksgiving, had a wonderful Ham dinner and all the trimmings with one of SWMBO's daughters, including way more dessert than I should have, but hey, it's T-Day, after all. Hid out through the Black Friday - Cyber Monday madness. Been fighting some stomach bugs off and on since that manifest in odd moments for no apparent provocation. A visit to the Lab next week for bloods should offer up a numerical value or two on the state of my recovery or decline. We'll be meeting with the doctor on the 19th. It is hoped he will give me the OK to resume my wanderings as we were hoping to winter near Port Aransas, Texas. Keeping fingers and toes crossed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then we stuff ourselves silly on roast turkey with all the trimmings, beaucoup pies and sweets, topped off with Bordeaux and Bourbon, until replete, whence we waddle off to the nearest easy chair to sleep off our excesses as we "watch" football.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sadly, that hasn't been my <i>modus operandi </i>for many years. This year will be no different. Not sure what I am serving for dinner, but it won't be turkey, goose, duck or any other roast fowl. Roast veggies are a possibility if I can get my wife to drive me to Wally World in the AM, else it will be the luck of the pantry. Beans, more than likely. Rice. The staples of most of the non-Western world. Off to a daughter's for dessert in the evening, mostly for the company as this diet doesn't permit such luxuries as cheesecake or blueberry pie. Lunch for yours truly will be a revisit with the Hot and Sour Squid Soup I made for my supper today (SWMBO claims I'm part Squid...) while the Mrs. will probably opt for a PB&J if I get some bread in the morning. Steel cut oats laced with stewed raisins & a scrambled egg was my fast breaker. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such is the life of the cardiac challenged. Hope yours is a tastier repast. Nevertheless, beans and rice beats the alternative I stared down in the ER just 2 1/2 weeks ago. Wasn't quite ready for the Reaper and his scythe just yet.</span><br />
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