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75Comment on the Luminess air makeup system
I bought the luminess air system quite a while ago, and I have to say it is the best makeup I have ever applied. The application time for me is a bit longer than what they say but the results are beautiful. I am a sixty something year old great...
0 comments63Facebook conversations with my family
This was a conversation is between my sister & myself on Facebook. I changed the names for privacy. Me; Do you remember Pop's wildcat trap? Sister; I had it in my back yard for years. I think I gave it to Missy's husband. Sister; Do you...
8 comments68My failed ambition to be a Rocket Scientist
Like many children born in the early years of the space age, I wanted to be either an astronaut or a rocket scientist. I was born in November 1957, shortly after the launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to remain in a permanent orbit. As I was...
1 comment76How to spot satellites
One of the more pleasurable things I can remember about my childhood was spotting satellites with my father. We lived out in the sticks near Branchland, West Virginia at the time, so light pollution wasn't a problem. Back then, small towns (Think...
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71How to find North
How to find North? As a boat captain I have quite a bit of technology on the boat to tell me where I am, which way I'm going, where I'm going & how long it will take to get there at all times. On the boat I have two GPS systems, an AIS system, a...
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72How to keep your child believing in Santa Claus
It's getting cold outside. Most of the trees have shed their leaves. The RV's are going south for the winter. You ask your child if he/she has written his/her letter to Santa yet? Your child says "I don't believe in Santa Claus anymore." So now you...
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72Is this the Hotel California from the song?
I have to write this story about the Hotel California as a fiction because I don't have any evidence besides my wife's story and this very old photograph of a burning building to back me up. The only things I can assure you is that it was a burning...
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66A few things I've done for Halloween
Most years my wife & I convert our front yard into a graveyard by making home made headstones. The headstones are easy to make using pieces of Styrofoam and wooden stakes bought at places like Lowe's and Home Depot. Then we write poetic epitaphs...
0 comments77Bobcat, Manx, Unusual cats
A few days ago I saw a wild Bobcat. That’s not unusual. I live in a very small, rural town in Louisiana & wild animal sightings on the roads and highways is quite common. What made this sighting a little...
2 comments71The Beer Hunter & other hunting tales
OK, this story isn’t about deer hunting, but it could have been. There were five of us in my dad’s station wagon that morning. There was my dad, uncle Elmer, uncle Albert, my best friend Pat & myself. My dad had his old 30-06. Uncle Elmer...
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