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REMEMBERING A SOLDIER

The first memory of Mother’s half-brother, my Uncle Clyde Hammonds was when I was too young to remember clearly. We were living with my Grandmother in the early...

THE TIME OF DORO

Once upon a time…. Well, maybe not that long ago, but certainly before last month, I had just volunteered for the U.S. Air Force after high school. One of the f...

YESTERDAY: Nov 21, 2018

A Perfect Confluence of Non-Events! Some days are just right. There’s no way I can predict them; they just happen. https://i.postimg.cc/JzcLMFWV/IMG-3651.jpg Th...

Coming to America!

My Occasional Every Day Photo for November 13, 2018 I have been incarcerated by a few days of rain and a very soft and muddy ground. Being confined to my desk i...

TIME TO MOVE THE DIAL

Because the old solution no longer works. Thirty three years ago, I installed a new clock radio below a kitchen cabinet in our new house and it has functioned f...

CUTTING TREES

First off, I do not like really hate having to cut trees. Even when they have problems, ordering their execution is a hard decision for me to make. Still, there...

A WEEK IN NOVEMBER

Images from the first week in November, 2018 The thing these have in common is that they were taken in the first week of this month. https://i.postimg.cc/4xRnN9...

A CONVERSATION WITH MY MOTHER

ELIZABETH EARLINE ROSS Earline was born 5/4/1920, in Hartsville, SC. She was one of the 15 graduates from the rural Antioch, SC, high school in 1937. She starte...

STEEM HAS CANCER

AND IT IS FATAL It is killing the Steemit platform day-by-day, inexorably murdering the platform we misguided believers thought was nirvana to publish and to pr...

Re-POSTING ON WEKU ?

Is it okay to re-post from Steemit to WeKu? First off, WeKu is a Steemit clone with the bad things left out and the good things emphasized. There is almost a ze...

A HIDDEN MEMORY GEM REDISCOVERED

The Volvo I was scanning through old images and ran across one I made of my first and only sports car, a 1972 Volvo 1800e. The instant I saw it, a related memor...

Progress, Further Improvements, More Ideas!

Progress, Further Improvements, More Ideas! Another Big Week for @steem-ua, and another Update Post was needed, indeed! In this post: A few more words on @steem...

HURRICANE BREAD

It's the staff of life! If there is one thing you can rely on in the Southern US, it's that, at the first warning that a hurricane is headed in our direction, e...

The value of a smile

What is it that human beings have that the other species on our planet do not? I am not talking about intelligence for that is debatable given how we behave lik...

HOW TO BUY CRYPTOCURRENCIES

When you have been afraid to take the first step: The process itself is pretty straightforward. All you need is a checking account and to set up on-line account...

THE HARD ROCK SOLUTION

The solution is simple once it becomes obvious. The hardest part of actually doing something is starting. Sitting at the computer and typing is not considered "...

The Last Hike, Forever // [memories in cinemagraph]

How will I ever climb these rocks again without you?          How did we even climb today, knowing as we picked our way over ...

Grandpa Gotta Cook—Homemade Grilled Individual Pizzas

This week on Grandpa Gotta Cook... My wife wanted pizza. She never wants pizza. She didn't want it bought at a pizzeria or at a store. She wanted me to make it ...

August Before Sunrise

Before Sunrise Beginning a morning walk a half an hour before sunrise is a perfect start for the day. I get to experience the silence before people begin their ...

Coco

Being afraid When you are a little girl dog with a soft, gentle manner, it is easy to be afraid when there is a person who mistreats you because of the way you ...