Wednesday, July 1, 2020

It’s overcast today, with just the slightest breeze causing a leaf to quiver here and there. A mockingbird was serenading me as I sat down… it’s a song I’ve missed

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Friday, October 4

Summer continues. I received word yesterday via a letter in a package of family relics that another of my first cousins past away last month. James Albert Boyd, Jim was

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Aaron Franklin

“Aaron Franklin explains the telltale characteristics of a finished brisket, when and why you’d wrap your brisket, how long to let it rest and how to slice your masterpiece. And if you’re one of *those* who like the sauce, learn a basic Texas sauce to serve alongside your meat.”

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Monday Mornng Coffee Muses, January Second

So far, 2017 has started off warm and humid. That’s about to change tomorrow. It’s windy this morning and I’m seeing, and hearing, more of the winter birds around the

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Christmas Memories

I was reading through my emails and Google Reader feeds today when I came across Jim Casada’s December Newsletter. As I was reading his list of childhood Christmas Memories I

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A Town I Never Expected To Hear In The National News

OSAWATOMIE, Kan. — President Obama came to this tiny middle American town Tuesday to invoke the spirit of a long-ago Republican president in a speech that laid out, in his

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