I was walking the dog yesterday and listening to National Public Radio out of Minnesota through the brilliance that is the iphone. One of the free applications that you can download from the “App. Store” on itunes is little program that allows you to listen to MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) streaming live. So when I [...]
Read More →We had a wonderful evening at the Deland airport. It is not what you think. Our small, local airport is, for reasons that escape me, a mecca for skydivers from around the world for winter “jumping out of planes” season. The tiny airport (which was just voted a tower by the county government — no [...]
Read More →My daughter is sick. She has strep throat. After a visit to the doctor and pharmacist yesterday I decided we would drive by my favorite local grove to see if they were harvesting yet and, perchance, had put up their roadside stand. I figured I was about a month early and I was right. This [...]
Read More →We had a wonderful dinner at some friends’ house last night eating a TON of spiny lobster tails that they had caught this summer in the Keys. Damn good eats. Because of the weather we were able to head outside after dinner and roast marshmallows for s’mores by a roaring fire. Fall arrived this [...]
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The first cold front of the year is, even as I write this, rapidly approaching. Based on the current radar, the advanced squall line is only about 15 – 20 miles to the north. Finally, the end of the LONG HOT SUMMER is neigh. This means more to me than I can communicate in words.
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