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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 1940’s and he was spending a few days with

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 first things we did during the first week

A Perfect Confluence of Non-Events! Some days are just right. There’s no way I can predict them; they just happen. The morning began before sunrise with a walk in the park. The air was cold but was warming

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 is not altogether bad because I have hundreds

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 flawlessly ever since. Every day it provides

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 are times when it must be done. There was

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. A conversation between @swan-nguyen and Emma Emu can be interesting

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 started working in the Hartsville Cotton Mill on

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 preserve our creative writing. We mistakenly

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 zero learning curve. (Even your previous Steemit

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 memory popped into my reality for the first time

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, everyone will immediately go to grocery stores

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 accounts with three different sites. Getting the

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 "productive" work around here,

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 noisy routines, and I can enjoy the darkness

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 look and especially because you don't understand

What would you do if you knew? Without bothering with the technical details of how it came, suppose for a moment that suddenly and unexpectedly, you had a valid warning that the financial system was going

The little nine pound Havanese is becoming very brave about being in the woods as long as the sun is shining and there are no frogs around. And the ground is dry. And no squirrels are close by. And she

The North American Prairie. After the great Laurentide Ice Sheet receded around 12,000 years ago, the climate began to moderate; this time without the large predators that died out during the long ice

Two hours of reading the monthly Ham radio magazine, QST, was a welcomed break from the normal finance-irritating politics-social media routine. Unlike the vacuum tube days when I became interested in