tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73673966681902990782024-03-18T20:10:47.786-07:00No Vacation NecessaryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-18924362670693943312017-03-26T17:41:00.001-07:002017-03-26T17:45:01.378-07:00Get Your "Buts" Out of the Way... <div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Started thinking more about this
and how it relates to the Law of Attraction after writing it this morning...
Those additional thoughts are in </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">red... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">43 years ago, an 18 year old, audience
member at a comedy club... Was thinking how great it would be to do stand-up
comedy for a living... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">That 18 year old with no direction
also thought enlisting in the Navy would be a good idea... Three years later as
a 21 year old he did... Turning 22 in boot camp... Law of Attraction???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">36 years ago, he was aboard a
submarine on a six-month West-Pac deployment... Reading Louie L’amour novels as
fast as he could... Dreaming about getting out and disappearing into the mountains
out west... Alone!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sharing his thoughts of living alone
in the mountains with a shipmate, one day.... The shipmate replied that it
would never happen... To paraphrase him... “The world will suck you into the
system”, he said... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">It did for more than 20 more years... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">15 years ago, as a 46 year old, he
finally found out how great it was to do stand-up comedy... Law of
Attraction??? A dream fulfilled... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">10 years ago, he left the "system" and a shitty stress filled, health destroying, career with a death sentence
work schedule...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Pursuing comedy almost full time the
next three years... Finding out comedy on-stage is great... While the business
side of comedy sucked... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">7 years ago, he made </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“the mistake” </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">of returning to the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“system”</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;"> and his previous shitty stress
filled, health destroying, career with a death sentence work schedule... Just
like a bad relationship it wasn't any better than it was before... He was just
older and even less willing to put up with the bullshit... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">4 years ago, he left a shitty
loveless hate filled 10 year relationship... Why it even started, let alone why
it lasted that long is a subject left for a NEVER day... Who<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="textexposedshow">cares... He
knows why... No need to share it here... He’s just thankful to be rid of it... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He would
have been willing to die to escape the career and relationship mistakes... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="textexposedshow"><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">While moving
to Idaho had seemed like a mistake, it proved to play a big part in changing
his life... NO, our hero did NOT turn Mormon... But looking back he is filled with
gratitude and gratefulness for the REAL people who have become an important of
his life... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">3 and a half years ago, he left
the </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">“system” </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">and the stress filled health destroying career with the death
sentence work schedule for the second time... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">He was Overweight and Under
happy... He had High Blood Pressure... High Cholesterol... And High Anger about
it all...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Intending to chase his comedy dreams
once again... He found something much better... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Alone with his dogs on the beach in
California... Alone in the desert and mountains of California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Arizona, Colorado and finally New Mexico...
It dawned on him... What he had spoken to a shipmate 36 years prior had finally
come to be manifested... He was alone... The Law of Attraction???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">There was time to clear his head...
Time to figure out who he was again before the “system” and bad relationships
told him he was supposed to be someone else... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Today he is who he was again and he
feels good... Happy and grateful... </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Six weeks ago, he turned 61 years
old... Today after just getting off the scale he is 35 pounds lighter and down
to 17% BF... Happy and grateful to be... Happier than he has ever been...
Healthier than he has been in a long time... No High Blood Pressure... No High
Cholesterol... No High Anger... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">And the Old Bastard just did 66
push-ups...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Have the last 3 and a half years
always been easy??? No... </span><span style="color: red; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">But there was also time
to meet some wonderful people who never asked him to be anything other than
himself... People who extended helping hands to him while on his journey asking
nothing in return... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Have they been worth it???
Absolutely...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11pt;">If you want to change your
life... Stop complaining about it... Get your "Buts" about why you can't change it out of the way... Be grateful and CHANGE IT!!!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-33222280974303692642017-03-03T15:19:00.000-08:002017-03-03T15:20:00.818-08:00Into the Mountains I Went... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white;">For whoever wants
to save their<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>life<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>will
lose it... Luke 9:24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">November 2013... It was time to honor a decision made many
years earlier... The peace I had made with a career I hated more than 10 years earlier
had been stolen by chaos and drama... Chaos and drama I had opened my door and
let in because I had taken my eyes off the prize... Now more than 2000 miles
from that place of peace on the lake in NY... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Already rid of the people who lived for the chaos and drama
which had stolen it... It was time to lose the chaos and drama they had left
behind... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was finally time to lose once and for all my life with a
health robbing career and its death sentence schedule... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was time to save my life... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was time to lose my mind and save my soul... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was time to chase my dream again... A dream I thought I
wanted... A dream I had always had... A dream I had started to chase more than
10 years earlier... A dream that had helped make my peace with the career I
hated... A dream that had been stolen with the peace it helped bring... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But a dream I could not chase in good conscience while
leaving my three boys behind... Loading them into my RV in August of 2014 and
heading to the southern California coast where we’d try to chase it together
was difficult... But looking back it was the start of finding something even
better... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I won’t rehash the difficulties we faced... I’ll only say
thank you to those who helped us through them... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heading north again the summer of 2015 and spending two
months alone with my boys in the mountains I began to find something far better
than even the dream I had wanted since high school... I began to find my
soul... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now more than two years later... My soul and my peace has
been found again... Peace far better than the peace I lost on the lake in NY...
Found on the beaches, mountains, deserts and rivers of California, Idaho,
Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and
finally New Mexico... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The boys with me for most of those travels are gone now...
Gone but never forgotten... They’ll always be missed... They’ll always be
loved... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s time to close another chapter... I’ve been to,
traveled through, worked and lived in 48 of the 50 states... In less than 2
months I will add another to the list... The RV which has been my home almost
exclusively since August of 2014 will be retired the end of April... While
still sound enough to be parked and lived in... It needs significant work to
keep it safely logging miles on the road... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It will be donated to Fiddler’s Green... A non-profit community
in Tularosa, NM providing off the grid housing to homeless US Veteran’s... They
are doing a great work and please if anyone would be interested in helping
their cause contact me for more information... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oklahoma... The 49<sup>th</sup> of the 50 states I have been
to, traveled through, worked and lived in will become the new home base... But
the adventures will not end...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In many ways, different ones have only just
begun... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A newer RV will soon replace this one... The drama and chaos lost...
My mind clear... My soul found... New travels and adventures await and best of
all... I am ready and happy to say I won’t be taking them alone...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stay tuned faithful readers... New adventures await...</span> <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-20255375828401969252017-02-06T17:23:00.000-08:002017-02-06T17:41:52.849-08:00The Luckiest Man in the World<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It’s so easy to forget who we really are when we start
listening to who the world tells us we are supposed to be… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thirty and one half years have passed since serving in the
US Navy Submarine service for 9 years… Then trying to fit into the box the
world said I should live in for the next 20 years… It might have been OK for a while…
But it was living someone else’s truth and eventually regret and resentment
take their toll… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After two failed marriages trying to fit into the box… And
thinking I had finally found a happy place… Still inside the box but on the
edge looking out… Though still working in an industry and career I had come to
despise… I had freedom to pursue my places of refuge… The quiet home on the lake
and the standup comedy stage… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In a scene right out of “On the Water Front.” I coulda been
a contenda… A contenda for contentment… But like a boxer throwing a fight on a
promise of a bigger payday… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The quiet home on the lake… The quiet… My favorite sound…
The freedom to pursue a dream to step on stage and say whatever I felt like
saying… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Like crabs in a box pulling the escaping crab back into the
box… Wife number three… In the end the worst of the most dishonest of the three…
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All the things professed as attraction points… Became points
not to be respected… The peace and quiet replaced by constant noise and chaos… The
freedom to step on stage and say what I wanted replaced by drama… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No longer attraction points… But points to be used against
me… They were points to control… There were dreams to be stolen…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In typical narcissistic fashion… Caring more about what
those outside the home thought and felt than what those (me) inside the home
thought… Drama constantly played out for the world to see… In an effort to
convince the rest of the world she was a dream to live with while stuffing
potato chips and Good ‘n Plenty’s in her face… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The truth of not serving two masters proven… The happy place
I had found for myself at the edge of the box the world said I should live in
was gone… I was pulled back into the box… An even deeper box than the one I had
climbed to the edge of… I am so happy I finally said no more… I would not live
in the box the world tried to fit me in any longer… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sadly, it hurt to lose the quiet home of the lake and yes…
Pursuing the freedom of the stage again might always be an option… I willingly
gave that up pursuing that to provide the best life possible for my boys… Yes,
there’s been heartbreak along the way because sadly now they have all crossed
the rainbow bridge… but they’ll never forgotten… <br />
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Another truth played out… “To find your life… You must lose your life.” In
giving up pursuing the dream of a life on stage… I found something much better…
Real freedom… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Selling everything I could not fit into my RV… Packing up my
three dogs and the rest of my possessions… Travelling all over the wild west…
Mountains… Desert… Oceans… Idaho, California… Washington… Oregon… Montana… Utah…
Colorado… Arizona and now New Mexico… The Boys and I have had the whole wild west
as our playground… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ocean and Desert sunsets… Mountain streams… Campfires… Stars…
Quiet and calm… No drama… No drama queens… No chaos… Sometimes days… Weeks and
even months at a time with no human contact… Time only think… To feel… To
listen… To hear what those who fill their lives with noise and chaos are afraid
to hear… </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The freedom to go where we want… When we want… With who we
want… Without those we don’t want… Without those who neither respect it or
appreciate it… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It took three and a half years to finally wash it all out of
me… And become me again… It wasn’t always easy and I will always be thankful
for those that stood with me during some of the rough spots… But today there
are… No boxes… No boundaries… The rest of my life… The best of my life… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Only the real me… My truth and those who understand, respect
and share the same truth are granted a spot at the campfire… They know who they
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-49042699214263819452017-01-14T18:06:00.003-08:002017-01-14T18:06:48.287-08:00Simonizer...<div class="MsoNormal">
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happy and strong; and yet, before the night has come, have I lived to see the
Last of the Moheathens.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ve struggled to find words to write Simon his blog today…
While painful to write blogs for Jack, Riley and JJ, the words came easily… Not
so today and I guess it says a lot about who Simon was… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Never flashy… Simon was Mr. Steady… Predictable… Unassuming…
Just always there… Far smarter than he was often given credit for… Often over
shadowed by his older brothers… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dependable… Loyal… And full of love for everyone… Asking for
nothing but love in return… Well, maybe some cookies, too… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that is the best complement one can give a good dog… That and the tears we shed
upon his passing… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stroking his head on the way to the vet and whispering in his
ear that it was okay to let go… He walked into the doctor’s office… Sat on the
floor and as a smile crossed his face he breathed his last… No needles… Just
the smile… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would like to think he was smiling because his brothers Riley
and JJ were there to meet him… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While Riley is chasing Fifi and JJ his slow rabbits… Simon
has found the big box of biscuits in the sky… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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laid to rest to watch beautiful sunsets beside big brother Riley… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Funny... As I spend this Christmas Eve alone with Simon and the Damn Cat... The gusting desert wind is the only sound... The RV is rocking... Simon and the Damn Cat are sleeping like babies in a cradle... Peaceful quiet... Yet I never feel alone... Looking back I had the same peaceful quiet when I lived on Lake Ontario... It was all I ever wanted...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mistake... Opening the door to someone who never respected my love for that quiet... Someone who needed to fill that quiet with<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> the noise of constant drama and chaos...</span></span></div>
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Because she was afraid of what she'd hear in the quiet... Things she didn't want to hear...</div>
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It's ironic that the same noise of constant drama and chaos left everyone in it's wake feeling alone... It never really drowned out the sounds she didn't want to hear...</div>
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Never understanding those sounds she didn't want to hear came from deep inside her heart and mind... The noise of constant drama and chaos will never silence them...</div>
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The noise of constant drama and chaos only stole the peace of the people around her... </div>
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Sadly, I can't help thinking that was the plan... Someone truly at peace doesn't feel the need to steal someone else's... </div>
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I've found the peaceful quiet again... I like what I hear in the quiet... And I never feel alone...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK... Much to be thankful for not just today, tomorrow or the next day... Everyday!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The boys and I have been on quite an adventure the last few years... Some of it good... Some of it hard... I won't call the hard times bad... We learned from both... We've been blessed by both...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon and I are now the "Last of the Moheathens" on this adventure and we've got a lot more adventure to live... That fact alone is something to be extremely thankful for...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Simon, Baby Girl and I will chill beside a campfire tonight and be as grateful as any other night... Just maybe thankfully thinking a little deeper than normal... I hope everyone else takes some time to do the same...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-34991494417452895572016-10-25T10:43:00.003-07:002016-10-25T10:43:40.100-07:00Deep Desert Thoughts...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;">Known a few of these... The last being the worst... Why??? She hid it the best... Wanted everyone to think she was joy to live with... Took a while to see through the chaos...</span></div>
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Love bombing is a term used to describe the typical initial stages of a relationship with a narcissistic personality where the narcissist goes all out to impress their target with flattery, holidays, promises of a future together having the target believe that they have met their perfect partner, their soulmate.</div>
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A narcissist will mirror what they see in you from your mannerisms to your dress sense, your behavior and your likes and dislikes. They basically become just like you. </div>
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Machinist... Comedian... Trucker... </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-1189604711499732372016-10-23T14:36:00.002-07:002016-10-23T14:37:18.816-07:00Swing Low Sweet Chariot<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sunday 10/23/16 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So… What’s life on the road really like??? Well, this trip
has been full of adventure… The adventure these intrepid travelers started with
was not what we had planned… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heading south Wednesday we were greeted by a steel belted
blow out of the left rear inner tire… Which also damaged the outer tire though
not bad enough to keep us from limping off of I-15 south and to a tire store… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two new tires later we were back on the road… Thankful it
wasn’t worse… We didn’t die… But in need of a beer… We stopped for the night at
a Salt Lake City VFW post… Only to find some additional surprises… Pieces of
the steel belt had gone right through and were still imbedded in the floor of
the RV… Looking back now I should have taken some pictures… I’ll get some pics
of the holes from below and above tomorrow… I’ll also be calling the insurance
company though who knows what they can do for me… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pieces of tire and the shredded floor board have been cleaned
up, but the holes are still there and strategically covered now to keep the
cool night air out… Luckily they are not in a walk path forward and aft in the
RV and thankfully more damage wasn’t done… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our second night out (Thursday) we camped just east of
Spanish Forks, Utah at Diamond Campground… It had been our scheduled first
night stop… Nice quiet, but not the scenic Utah campground we had hoped for… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heading southeast from there through Moab, UT… The scenery
and countryside was beautiful and everything we had hoped for… But we drove
right past Arches National Park and the surrounding campgrounds full of way too
many people… Maybe another time… Maybe a different time of the year, but we
wanted no part of the crowds… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">South of Moab we found Wind Whistle Campground… Beautiful,
quiet, scenic… it would have been great to stay there more than one night, but
feeling the need to press on we broke camp again… Leaving Wind Whistle
Campground in Utah and heading through Cortez in the southwest corner of
Colorado and into New Mexico… Straight south through Navajo Land… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Planning a stop just east of Gallup, New Mexico only to get
there and find the campgrounds closed… With the sun setting, sick of driving
for the day and yes, more than a little annoyed… We pulled into a truck stop
off of I-40 in Milan, NM… Surrounded by big rigs… Many of which left their diesels
idling all night… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Which once one is adjusted to the steady drone and the
vibration left me with two thoughts… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, shipmates… You guessed the first one… Sleeping through
diesel ops… And in the words of Jimmy Buffett…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Put in a quarter, turn out the light… <br />
Magic Fingers makes you feel alright… <br />
Feel alright, feel alright… <br />
Magic finger makes you feel alright…”<br />
-This Hotel Room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After driving way more than was planned yesterday… We drove
only about an hour today and are camped in El Malpais at the Joe Skeen
campground… A free BLM campground… With a seven day stay limit and a two mile
walk to fill water jugs… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not needing to arrive in Alamogordo for another week and
only 260 miles from our destination… These intrepid travelers will spend a few
days here collecting their thoughts and some rays… Well, Simon will sit in the
shade… We already know his thoughts… Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had jokingly posted this Facebook status update a few
weeks ago… “My mouth is singing Swing Low Sweet Chariot… #cottommouth” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">An old negro spiritual about being set free from a life of
slavery… I had one final thought before drifting off to sleep… The RV has
become my “Sweet Chariot” freeing me from the slavery of a death sentence
nuclear work schedule… Setting me free on the road to adventure… </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Swing low, sweet
chariot<br />
Coming for to carry me home,<br />
Swing low, sweet chariot,<br />
Coming for to carry me home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">I looked over Jordan, and what did I see<br />
Coming for to carry me home?<br />
A band of angels coming after me,<br />
Coming for to carry me home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sometimes I'm up, and sometimes I'm down,<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<br />
But still my soul feels heavenly bound.<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">The brightest day that I can say,<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<br />
When Jesus washed my sins away.<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If I get there before you do,<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<br />
I'll cut a hole and pull you through.<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.0pt;">If you get there before I do,<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<br />
Tell all my friends I'm coming too.<br />
(Coming for to carry me home)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11pt;">Swing low, sweet chariot</span><br />
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Coming for to carry me home,<br />
Swing low, sweet chariot,<br />
Coming for to carry me home.</span><span style="color: #616161; font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 11.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-75187621537314337572016-10-17T18:27:00.001-07:002016-10-17T18:27:38.745-07:00My Private Idaho... <div class="MsoNormal">
Well, it’s been exactly 6 weeks today that I left
Leavenworth, WA… A week on the road through some awesome beautiful country…
Mountains… Rivers… Waterfalls… and Forests… </div>
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It’s exactly 5 weeks that I have
been camped in Shelley, ID… It’s been a welcome respite from the rude kids and even
ruder adults who frequented the Leavenworth KOA… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Alone with Simon most of that time and now joined by the new
addition to our family… The “Damned Cat” as Simon calls her… No that’s usually
me calling her that… <o:p></o:p></div>
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We… No, I… Though I do run all my ideas past Simon… His
input is invaluable… Anyway we (I) had a lot of time to think… Actually
probably a little too much and a sign we probably should have gotten on the
road again a little sooner… We (I) almost convinced myself and Simon that it
might be a good idea to change our original plans and stay in Idaho… <o:p></o:p></div>
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After some long hard thought this past weekend… And weighing
many options… Not the least of which is this storm… <a href="http://idahostatejournal.com/members/biggest-snowstorm-of-season-thus-far-bearing-down-on-southeast/article_5a24e4c6-6965-5f32-97a5-7f43adbd91d7.html">http://idahostatejournal.com/members/biggest-snowstorm-of-season-thus-far-bearing-down-on-southeast/article_5a24e4c6-6965-5f32-97a5-7f43adbd91d7.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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We (I) have decided to stick with our original plan and head
to New Mexico for the winter… There’s a few places marked on the map that we’ll
try to see along the way and we’ll post plenty of pictures… We could be leaving
as early as tomorrow afternoon… Though Wednesday is more likely… <o:p></o:p></div>
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See you next spring, Idaho… For now… The adventure continues…. <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-56452392562485114592016-10-11T18:52:00.000-07:002016-10-11T18:52:37.245-07:00Really Real People... <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Real People</span></i></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">was an</span>
NBC reality TV series that aired Wednesdays at 8:00-9:00 from 1979 to 1984… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Real People</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">featured a
panel of seated hosts in front of a large studio audience. The hosts introduced
pre-filmed segments and engaged in comedic banter about them. Each segment was
a visit to someone with a unique occupation or hobby. Occasionally someone was
brought into the studio to interact with the audience.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_People">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_People</a>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This show came to mind yesterday… I remember it being a big
favorite during my time in the Navy while in both San Diego and NTPU Ballston
Spa… I can't think of too many single sailors who didn't have a crush on Sara Purcell... But the show isn’t what I’m here to write about… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh867dyGfCiXTDC0WW51O_Kgf1LKUJ7jZF7eqYN4qrlhDlBnnQpbsUL-I-h6vCSfCdBeLmpLPYVuqYB6V8GVQ8X_I257CT26VkvQYesx5qeETyMCPrZ0wxQ5fQP-817BaYCFTL8o7v2DYe2/s1600/14523252_1086921124719475_4105251567549324183_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh867dyGfCiXTDC0WW51O_Kgf1LKUJ7jZF7eqYN4qrlhDlBnnQpbsUL-I-h6vCSfCdBeLmpLPYVuqYB6V8GVQ8X_I257CT26VkvQYesx5qeETyMCPrZ0wxQ5fQP-817BaYCFTL8o7v2DYe2/s320/14523252_1086921124719475_4105251567549324183_n.jpg" width="276" /></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No… I’m here to write about <b><i>Really Real People</i></b>… </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a
lot of my faithful readers know… 6 years ago I left New York… A lot of these past
6 years have been a “Love-Hate” relationship… With my job… Comedy… Idaho…
Mormons… California cops… And certainly with my ex… OK, maybe for some of these
there wasn’t any of the “Love” half of the relationship… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But here we are… Simon and I… “The Last of the Moheathens” to
have left western NY 6 years ago… There's no sense to lament what we left behind... </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We’ve been all over the western US… We’ve come
to love the travel and a new adventure is on the horizon… We’ll be on the road
again within the next 10 days… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">New adventures… New places… New people… I think the best
thing about the last 6 years has been all the <b><i>Really Real People </i></b>that
we have met and some old friends we’ve gotten to see after many, many, years… Please note... I did NOT call you... Really Old Friends... </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You're all... Priceless gold that we would have never found or seen again if we hadn’t loaded
up the covered wagon and headed west…</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m not going to list any names here… I don’t want to embarrass
anyone and I certainly don’t want to miss someone… I hope you know who you all
are… </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you all for being <b><i>Really Real People</i></b>… </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-78965174319583774442016-09-17T13:12:00.000-07:002016-09-17T13:13:06.788-07:00Sounds<div class="MsoNormal">
Recently posting a video of my favorite sound on Facebook… <o:p></o:p></div>
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For those that listened… I hope you get it… I could write
volumes about one who never did get it… Even when personally introduced to the
same sound on the lake shore back east… It was considered a joke… Something not
to be respected and something to be drowned out by the chaos that she brought to control… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I found it interesting that as I opened my favorite book
today for my morning read this is what I read… <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/hdt04.html">http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/walden/hdt04.html</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Next Tuesday Simon and I will have been on the road again
for two weeks… Most stops along the way… One, two or three nights… We’ve been
in our current location since Wednesday… There’s a few more days here to wrap
up some personal business… <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s nice not to be packing up camp every few days or so and
we sincerely appreciate being in a place so nice… I have no desire or need to
go into town… Quiet and beautiful here… Time to read… Time to write… Time to
listen… Time to hear… Time… Yet no clocks… Just sunrise and sunset… The rumble
of Simon’s belly the only “alarm”<o:p></o:p></div>
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No worries, no hurry, no stress, no mess… Just the moment… The
moment to listen… The moment to hear… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Just a warm and sunny late summer day… A pleasant Idaho breeze… (22 mph and gusts to
27… I just checked accuweather.com) And the rustle of the leaves… <o:p></o:p></div>
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For those that know…<o:p></o:p></div>
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“It’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound???”<o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s my favorite sound… <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Everybody look what’s going down”</div>
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A welcome respite… <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-73751950030069860692016-09-15T10:15:00.001-07:002016-09-15T10:17:07.940-07:00Conversations With Simon... <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had this conversation with Simon this morning… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prior to our morning walk, while Simon impatiently waited
outside the RV, I had cleaned all the RV counter tops, the stove and table with
all-purpose cleaner… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not a fan of the smell… The morning walk gives it a chance
to dissipate… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Explaining to him the reason to clean as means to minimize food
smells, etc… So as not to attract flies… And thinking out loud… I thought… “Damn,
things eat shit.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“So do I”, replied Simon, “How come I can’t fly???”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Cuz you’re fat, Simon. You can’t fly cuz, you’re fat… It’s
Isaac Newton’s fault.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“Aw… FIG!!!”, Simon snorted.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-71953195222915813832016-09-13T15:57:00.004-07:002016-09-17T13:15:09.937-07:00Dances With Labradors<div class="MsoNormal">
Heading east out of Leavenworth, WA the Tuesday morning
after Labor Day in no hurry to get anywhere in particular, I thought about the pioneers
who headed west by wagon… They had no choice but to not be in a hurry… Many
times after travelling all day still camping within sight of their previous
night’s campsite… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am grateful I could not see Leavenworth in my rearview
mirror as I set up camp Tuesday night at Hawk Creek campground… Hawk Creek feeds
into Roosevelt Lake, which was formed when the Grand Coulee Dam was built on
the Columbia River… Simon and I were the only ones there, camped beside a waterfall…
It’s on Native American land and they are now calling me… “Dances with
Labrabors”… Maybe if I had smoked a “peace pipe” with them they would have set
me up with the Chief’s daughter??? <o:p></o:p></div>
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A needed quiet night to start our journey east and south…
The campfire ban, due to the dry weather, being the only negative… <o:p></o:p></div>
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While enjoying an early morning cup of coffee Wednesday
morning, we were graced by the presence of a very majestic visitor… As we
watched a Bald Eagle fish the mud flats of the creek for about 30minutes… <o:p></o:p></div>
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He was alone and free… Kind of symbolizes this life we have
adopted… The one we were meant for all along… Yet while we love our time alone
in the wilderness, a shout out needs to go to some of the wonderful people we
have met along our way especially the last two or three years… <o:p></o:p></div>
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While some only in passing… Some from one of my previous
life’s… The Navy… And some who have also adopted this “No Vacation Necessary”
lifestyle… The list is long… But you’ve all made our lives richer with your
friendships and we hope to see at least some of you somewhere on the road again…
Thank you…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Packing up and continuing east and into Montana Wednesday
morning we spent 2 days along the Clark Fork River north of Missoula… The
second day most of it inside due to rain… Something we hadn’t seen in central
Washington in months… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Breaking camp early Friday morning… We continued south on
Rte. 93… Stopping just north of the Idaho state line… Near the Lost Trail and
Chief Joseph Passes… Just west of the Continental Divide… Setting up camp again
at The Indian Trees Campground in the Bitterroot National Forest… It’s
primitive… No hook ups… Vault toilets… Potable water available… But it’s Quiet…
Alone… Dry… Warm… At least while the sun is out… It cools off quick once the
sun goes down… Can’t ask for more… We’ll be here until Monday… <o:p></o:p></div>
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For anyone thinking this sounds like an easy life… Breaking
down and setting up camp every few days is a lot of work… I’ve changed my
underwear, but I haven’t had a shower or a bath since last Monday… I’m not
tanned… I’m filthy… <o:p></o:p></div>
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The RV is dinged up and showing some wear… Yet I wouldn’t
trade this life now for much of anything else… This is a life that really
focuses one in on what’s really important in life… And it has taught me to be
very grateful for those things… <o:p></o:p></div>
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There’s no timetable here and many times there’s no cell
signal, the internet connection is weak at best… But let me assure you… The
connection with the Universe and the small still voice that it speaks in is far
superior… Forced to be alone with our thoughts… Not only to listen… But also to
hear… <o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been toying with the idea of sharing some of what we
hear… But for now it’ll just stay in my journal… For now that’s between me and
the Universe… <o:p></o:p></div>
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In a scene right out of the movie “Castaway” pine cones
instead of coconuts thunder to the ground and Simon has become my “Wilson” and
I lean on him for support as much as he leans on me… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Monday morning, a week after Labor Day, we headed out of
Indian Tree Campgrounds and south into Idaho… Pulling into Idaho Falls a day
earlier than expected… Spent Monday night at the Snake River RV Park… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Walked into the Roadhouse Saloon, a short walk from the RV
park for a late lunch early dinner and the Andy Griffith show was on TV… Yeah,
I got back to Idaho Falls and Mayberry was on TV… Never thought I would say
this about Idaho Falls… But it’s goddamn good to be home… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Dumped tanks Tuesday morning… Had two new tires put on the
RV and headed to Shelley… Going to sit here for hopefully only a week… Need to
finish up some loose ends and then head south thru Utah and into New Mexico…
TAKING OUR TIME DOING IT… There’s lots of beautiful and spiritual places to
visit and see in in the southwestern desert… I ain’t talking about the Salt
Lake Mormon Temple… That’s not spiritual… That's bullshit… <o:p></o:p></div>
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There’ll be lots more written and plenty of pictures posted
when we have a strong enough internet signal… We’ll have one while we are here
so I figured it was time to finish this blog and get it posted… Looking forward
to sitting on the porch here tonight to watch the sunset haven’t seen them from
here in a year… <o:p></o:p></div>
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You can enjoy the pictures of our travels on Facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/stevethenuclearguy">www.facebook.com/stevethenuclearguy</a>
and stay with us for our travels… Our plan is to spend the winter in New Mexico
and we have a lot of ground to cover before getting there… <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thanks for reading… <o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-63067271636312158312016-09-02T13:12:00.001-07:002016-09-02T20:01:52.103-07:00You Smell Like the Game...<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I mentioned a few blogs ago… <a href="http://novacationnecessary.blogspot.com/2016/08/im-so-excited.html">http://novacationnecessary.blogspot.com/2016/08/im-so-excited.html</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;">Our life now...
RVing... Like a Med Run or a West Pac... There's the adventure of getting there
and the adventure of being there...</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
</span><span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><br />
Getting there... By submarine or RV is cramped... Sometimes
smelly... Everything better be stowed for sea before getting underway... And
goddamn it... I'm still hot racking with a smelly dog... </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I went to the store this morning looking for some scented
candles to put in the candle warmer… I’d rather smell Simon than some of the
flowery stuff they had… I didn’t get any…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Walking home… Luckily, I still remember where I parked… I
had an idea about those candles and some manly scents… Steak… Bacon… Burgers…
Fried Chicken… Beer… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I remembered… I’m camping… Bears like the same scents…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Guess I’ll go back to the store tomorrow… Maybe they have
cinnamon… The RV will smell like Fireball and the bears will just come by for a
drink… </span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-55096997172603707842016-09-02T12:11:00.001-07:002016-09-02T12:11:58.732-07:00What Difference Does it Make??? <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This started as a Facebook status update… Because Facebook
wants to know what's on my mind... Well, since they asked... There’s a lot on
my mind… Too much for a simple status update… So it’s become a blog… As someone
once said… “What difference does it make???”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If my dog was outside incessantly barking for no reason other
than to bark... I would fully expect someone to ask/tell me to shut him the
fuck up... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Note: He isn't/wasn't... He's trained better than that... I'm
making an analogy... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, I realize anal is part of that word... It's going to
come in handy... Damn... I used anal and come in… In back to back sentences… This
could easily flow right into the gutter from here… Facebook might be sorry they
asked what’s on my mind…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK… Back to the analogy… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If my dog was outside incessantly barking for no reason other
than to bark... I would fully expect someone to ask/tell me to shut him the
fuck up... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So why do people think it’s OK to bring their kids to a Kampground
and let them act like animals??? Incessantly, screaming for no reason but to
scream… Loudly whining when they don’t get their way and fighting with their
siblings… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What’s the difference??? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are a lot of places it would not be acceptable to bring
my dog, yet he behaves better than the animals frequenting this Kampground… I’d
be expected to put him in a kennel for the weekend or for the time I’m away… Yes,
I have ranted about this before… <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, if you are going to bring your kids how about teaching
them to act like humans or leave them in a kennel next time you go away… </span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There’s
a business idea for you… Kennels and Kages for Kids… But someone else already
has the logo… I wouldn’t want to work there… Sometimes I feel like I already do…
<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thankfully, it’s the last weekend of the summer… Can I make
it until Tuesday without poking my fucking ear drums out??? </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-50968475070315237232016-08-29T22:38:00.003-07:002016-08-29T22:49:20.076-07:00I'm So Excited!!!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Early summer 1985... Standing on the pier... Norfolk, VA... 2 less than two weeks after reporting aboard the USS FLYING FISH SSN-673... Waiting to get underway for a Med Run... Dress Whites... Singing this... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">31 years later... 2016... Late summer... Simon, in his dress whites and I... The Last of the Moheathens... Weeks away from the next leg of our adventure... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Details of which are changing rapidly... Like the river we are camped on... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Our life now... RVing... Like a Med Run or a West Pac... There's the adventure of getting there and the adventure of being there...</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Getting there... By submarine or RV is cramped... Sometimes smelly... Everything better be stowed for sea before getting underway... And goddamn it... I'm still hot racking with a smelly dog... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Being there... Everyplace is different... As different as a Med Run and a West Pac... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">As different as a 23 yr old on West Pac and a 29 year old on a Med Run... As different as a dark, crowded, smoke filled, noisy bar, full of drunk sailors and country music and a 60 yr old alone in a quiet campsite, beside a campfire, only the dog near by... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Surrounded by the sounds of the forest and stars so close they can touched... Far better than the sounds of a casino and flashing neon lights... </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Any way... This song has been echoing in my head all day... </span><span class="_5afx" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/imsoexcited?source=feed_text&story_id=10154379365958329" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="background-color: white; color: #4267b2; cursor: pointer; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px; text-decoration: none;">imsoexcited</span></a> #coulditbeanomen </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-28357655747896283282016-08-27T11:53:00.001-07:002016-08-27T11:53:33.762-07:00No Regrets, Coyote... <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A little over a year ago I began the practice each day of
listing things I’m grateful for in my journal… Each morning with a cup of
coffee, pen and paper… Old school… In cursive… Sister Mary Miserable would be
proud… Even if it’s messy sometimes… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s been an eye opener and life changing as there are
always things to be happy for… Taking the time to think about them to start the
day sets the tone for the rest of the day… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using different methods to provoke good thoughts and to get
the ink flowing… This morning I started with the five senses… Sight, Hearing,
Smell, Touch and Taste… Felt so good after words I thought I’d share some of the
good feelings here… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Sight</u>… The blue sky and all that is good… The trees
and the leaves that have already begun turning yellow… Mountains… Sunrises and
Sunsets… Smiles… And the wag of Simon’s tail…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Hearing</u>… I’m looking forward to hearing nature again…
Three more weeks before Simon and I are alone in the wilderness… The sound of a
stream and the wind through the trees… The song of the birds and sounds of the
forest… Laughter… And silence, my favorite sound, it’s the sound that speaks
the loudest… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Smell</u>… Campfires and good food cooking on the fire… Wild
flowers… Simon as I wrap my arms around him and bury my face in the fur of his
neck… Smells like love… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Touch</u>… The touch of a friend… Near, far, new, old… A
handshake… A hug… Or even a text from afar… The feel of a cool stream to put my
feet in… The splash of cool water on my face… The warm sun on my face… The
morning dew and the wet grass on my bare feet… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>Taste</u>… Good food… Meat off the grill… Fresh fruit and
vegetables… Strong coffee… Red wine… Cool water… Good beer…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warm bed… Good rest… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to think… Time to listen and time to hear… Yes, there’s
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-63840775078202560182016-07-31T19:57:00.002-07:002016-07-31T19:58:28.506-07:00South By Southwest...<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">With still some months of summer left to be spent in the
Cascade Mountains of central Washington… Plan A is evolving to drive down and
camp along the Oregon and California coastline… Stay tuned for plenty of pictures…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Work has just been started on a possible Plan B... But it's not far enough along yet to decide if it would be an alternative to Plan A or to mention it here... <br />"Too soon" as they say... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Often accused of being Psycho and with the screenplay of my
life already like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock movie… If we stick with Plan A... Maybe we’ll make
a stop at the Bates Motel… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Oregon coastline… Then California… With stops planned to see
the Redwoods, Point Reyes National Seashores and Big Sur… A stop in Ventura to
see some friends… Then Slab City… At least to say I’ve been there… One of these
winters I’d like to spend the whole winter there… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then Arizona and into New Mexico… A stop in Roswell, NM for
a “family reunion”. If I don’t trade the RV for a UFO… Then we’ll finally get
to this winter’s stop in Alamogordo/White Sands, NM… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Already planning on taking a tour of the Trinity Site in
White Sands next spring… One day a year the site of the first atomic bomb test
is open to the public… Which brings me to one of my favorite quotes… Ironically
made during an election year… “Built in America, tested in Japan.” – Ross Perot<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interesting things for Simon and I to see and do along the way and this winter... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">While Simon and I are enjoying our time together as the "Last of the Moheathens"... There is also the possibility of finding him a new brother this winter in New Mexico... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Though I haven't been blogging as much as I should or would like to... I'm still filling journal notebooks by hand... Turning the scribbles and sometimes random thoughts into readable and hopefully entertaining blogs hasn't always come easy... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So stay tuned faithful readers...</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You, Simon and I will fight through some writers block together and share our adventures... </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-83745912973506393582016-07-31T18:39:00.002-07:002016-07-31T18:39:54.723-07:00Priceless Freedom... <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"My story isn't sweet and harmonious, like invented stories. It tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's not just about what happened... But also... Why did it
repeatedly happen??? From one bad relationship to the next… Well, finally the
universe has shed the understanding I have been searching for...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Long ago... In a galaxy far, far away... It was ingrained in
me that what I wanted never mattered as much as what everyone else wanted...
That well, I just didn't deserve the things and the life I wanted...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally know now it wasn't true... </span></div>
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to get it were more important... Taught this from early on by evil and
reinforced by evil and bad relationships throughout my life... From one bad
relationship to another… Taught to falsely believe that if I gave and met
others needs mine would be met as well... Evil people feed on that... Makes you
think and believe that initially… Then it overwhelms you with chaos to maintain
the control it fears it will lose if you finally get what you want... Evil never
was intending to really lend support to my wants and needs… It was only constantly
feeding the lie that they were…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It leads to a stolen life... I’ll never get back the hours
spent working jobs that I hated chasing paychecks long since spent to trying to
appease, please and in the end trying to buy myself peace from the controlling chaos…
Controlling chaos that I mistakenly repeatedly opened the front door of my life
to… Finally understanding this is part of finally being free of it... Of never
repeating it again… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, youth… And its years of earning power and money has
been lost… Pissed away on ungrateful evil… Ungrateful evil only interested in
what can be done for them today… Chaos interested only in control… Narcissistic
in its need for it…</span></div>
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about what’s been lost… It’s time to only focus on what’s been gained…
Certainly there’s been a life time of experiences… In the end, though not all
the experiences have been positive… There’s been more good ones than bad ones… Certainly
some I’ve had experiences only a few people get to have… Certainly, some hard
lessons were learned along the way… But we’re not talking about the cost of
those lessons any longer… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking back… What’s been gained??? Yes, a lifetime of
experiences and adventure… Yes, certainly some dreams fulfilled… I have seen
just about all corners of this world and this country… I fulfilled a dream to
tour as a road comic and have lived adventures only a few people get to have… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have had the love of many a fine dog and we’ve shared
adventures some dogs only dream about… I have friends near and far across this
land… New friends and old friends… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-9284646415127755032016-06-23T02:17:00.002-07:002016-06-23T03:04:49.251-07:00Even The Locals Are From Somewhere Else... <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Is it a precursor to Alzheimer’s??? Lately, I have been
amazed at some of the things surfacing from the depths of memory… Songs,
stories, events, etc… Sometimes with little to no connection to what might be
happening around me… Be it working, walking, talking thinking… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think anyone who has been a regular reading of my blogs,
facebook posts and tweets knows how much I am enjoying life and the freedom of
the road in my RV… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now work kamping in the mountains of eastern Washington… The
Comedy Dog House is down to one dog… Well, yeah… Two, if you count Simon… We
like it here… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what happened today??? Get to the damn point!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Everyone who works here is from somewhere else… Even the
locals are from somewhere else to me… A pretty cool thing… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So yeah, the point and how to Segway into it… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, I was going to write a blog about telling someone I
work with that his personality, attitude and constant complaining about the job
was just like the “drip, drip, drip of gonorrhea”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There’s wheels on your RV… If you don’t like it here… Drive
the fuck away… Or shut the FUCK UP!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it might be too negative to blog about that… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I’ll write about how amazed I am at what surfaces from
the depths of memory sometimes, instead... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://youtu.be/QFl3T9Asw7Q">https://youtu.be/QFl3T9Asw7Q</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-79104313178898464062016-06-17T13:31:00.001-07:002016-06-17T13:31:05.403-07:00Hammer Time<div class="MsoNormal">
S<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">o for a long time… With many starts and stops I’ve tried to
put old columns together and piece together a book… I’ve even written about
those efforts here… Yes, they are stopped again… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stopped again… Maybe each time for the same reason… They
weren’t saying what I wanted to say… Well, at least not “cutting to the chase”
as fast as I would have liked… Oh yes, eventually they may have told the story…
Maybe… Maybe it would have been missed??? Maybe eventually they’ll finally make
it into a book??? Maybe it’ll finally be made into a movie???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe this column will finally put into words what I have
wanted to say all along… Hopefully it’ll make the book that much easier to
write… The message will have already been said… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There’s a saying that the “Lessons in life will be repeated
until they are learned”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe… Just maybe I’ve finally learned what the
lessons (over and over) had been trying to tell me for so long… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I worked a long time at jobs filled with unhealthy hours and
stress… Unhappy while doing it… But doing what I thought I was “supposed” to do…
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only ones benefiting from those efforts being those who
in the end gave no damn about me… Except when it was time to ask again… “What
are you going to do for me today???”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each time I would finally put my foot down to end the drama
and to ask “What about what I want??? I would become the bad guy… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Repeatedly making bad choices in people to trust… Repeatedly
trying to “earn love”… I’ll probably be faulted for quoting some scripture here…
But I never said there isn’t any wisdom to be found there… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a matter of fact,
this bit of wisdom is found twice in the Book of Proverbs… Proverbs 21:9 and
25:24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">“Better
to live on a corner of the roof</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">than share a house with a
quarrelsome wife.</span></span>”</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just wish I hadn’t been repeatedly fooled by those
pretending not to fit the description… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Repeatedly, repeating the lesson… Until it was learned… I’ve
experienced lots of loss in this life… All those years of work with little to
nothing material to show for my efforts… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s safe to say the lesson will not need to be repeated
again… The lesson??? What’s important??? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally have it figured out… </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I’m living it now…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Living “small” now with the boys for the last two years,
mostly out of my RV… Stress and drama free with an abundance of wisdom, better
health, love, quality relationships not built on what someone can get from me,
adventure, insight and freedom… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’ll dip into the scripture bag one more time… Proverbs
15:17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">“Better
a small serving of vegetables with love</span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />
<span class="indent-1-breaks"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 5pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></span><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box;"></span><span class="text"><span style="background: white;">than a fattened calf with
hatred.</span></span>”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
Universe was trying to teach me this for a long time…. And yes, many of those
old columns would have rehashed the lessons… But not moved me past them… <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes,
sometimes we just need to be hit in the head repeatedly with a bigger and
bigger hammer until the lesson sinks in… Okay, I get it now…</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-78088533977653939962016-06-15T21:51:00.000-07:002016-06-15T21:51:23.810-07:00How Much Is That Doggy In The Window??? <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">I wrote this 12 years ago… Seems like a perfect time to re-post
it… If you don’t cry you might be a terrorist…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Having
just completed two weeks of evening and midnight shifts, I ventured out this
morning headed to the country garden store. A time to reacquaint with myself as
I loaded up on cat food, dog food and rawhide bones. I must have taped a sign on
my back as I entered the store… "Bad A$$, but Soft Heart". Hmm.....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">As
I checked out what should appear? But a
miniature Jack, so young and so pure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">We're
looking for a home for this guy, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">said the
checkout girl. As I stopped to say hi
and ogle the puppy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">How
old is he?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Six
weeks, we call him JJ.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Of
course he was cute, most puppies are. But a puppy was NOT on my shopping list
this morning, so I proceeded to the door. Almost out to the safety of the
truck, the big invisible hand held up a stop sign. Turning me around it drew
the words right out of me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">How
much is he? </span></i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Expecting
to hear a figure high enough in the hundreds to justify NOT getting him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Free,
to a good home!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">Put
the dog food in the truck... I'll go buy some puppy chow. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">So now Riley had a brother, JJ (for Jack Junior?) was here. Doolittle
that is, so he was talking soon enough... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Comic Sans MS";">And talk he did for 12 straight years… Goodbye JJ… You were the
best ever…I’ll be forever grateful to that big invisible hand that knew I
needed you much more than you needed me… I will always love you… </span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06605939702361642665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7367396668190299078.post-91551931125891181762016-06-15T15:09:00.000-07:002016-06-15T15:09:14.939-07:00Requiem for a Heavyweight<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Started this journey across America with 3 dogs and a cat… The cat and a dog occupy two shallow graves in
Idaho… Like the pioneers of yesteryear who left shallow graves across the
American frontier… We dug another one today in the mountains of Central
Washington… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like the pioneers of old... He traveled west from NY to Idaho... Northwest to the Washington coast... Back to Idaho... Southwest to Southern California... Back to Idaho... and finally the mountains of Washington... Mountains, Deserts, Oceans, Rivers and long ago in a galaxy, far, far away a Great Lake... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He lived a long… Though are they ever long enough??? A happy,
adventurous life… No dog enjoyed this adventure like JJ… Always in the co-pilot
seat… Scanning the horizon for danger and adventure as though in the front seat
of a pioneer’s covered wagon…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mischievous, fun, full of love… Though at times a “boog-a-loofer”
not wanting to admit he loved the attention…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He went bravely and bright eyed today… With Riley, Jack and
Buddy and all those before him there to greet him… The smallest of the three…
He leaves me with the heaviest heart… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A heavy heart and Simon… “Heavy Si(gh)”… Long considered the
“slowest” of the bunch… He continues to show how in tune he really is… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leading him quietly to the grave site… Not saying a word…
Sitting on the ground beside it… He walked over… Sat directly in front of me… Looked
into my eyes and slobbered kisses all over my face… I think I might have to get
Simon a kitty… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">JJ’s pain is ended… Our love for him goes on… </span></div>
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