tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51758955872290522042024-03-12T22:52:13.414-04:00Bleecker Mountain LifeSometimes Eureka Mountain LifeDave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.comBlogger621125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-56489225818620369052020-04-14T14:38:00.004-04:002020-04-14T14:38:42.681-04:00New Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey, Bleecker Mountain blog followers.<br /><br />I'm not sure why, but I started a new blog. It is called Observatatin'. This is about nothing, really, just tidbits of life that I find interesting or amusing. It will not be updated everyday. I'm not that witty anymore<br /><br />The idea came to me while I was ruminatin' out of my apartment window. But since Ruminatin' was taken, I had to invent a new word.<br /><br />Check it out if you're so inclined.<br /><br />https://observatating.blogspot.com/</span></div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-39931530820932908722020-03-05T13:34:00.000-05:002020-03-05T13:34:07.503-05:00the Writing Process<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Writing Process. Or, how to make OCD work for you.</div>
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Many of you know me. Some know me
well, some a bit, and some of you not at all. Some have read all of
my books, some one or two, others have not.<br /><br />I was in business
in one form or another my entire adult life. I retired in 2010. For
hobbies, I started doing what I always loved and wanted to do but
never had the time. Writing, and photography.<br /><br />Photography:
You've seen the photos I post almost everyday. Ad nauseam. Latin
for “to nausea”. I keep posting photos, day in and day out. I'm
sure many of you are tired of it and just scroll on by. Yet I do it,
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Writing: First it was magazine
articles, then it was blogs, and now books. When I decide to write a
book, I generally don't have not much of an idea as to what it is. I
always have a vague idea, like “I think I'll write a novel about
Sasquatch”. Then I sit down and write it. And write, and
write,and write, and write, and write, and write, and write. Ad
nauseam.
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Here's the problem. I can't stop.<br /><br />Now
understand that we all have two brains. No, really. We have a
conscious brain that gets you through the day. But then we have an
unconscious brain. That's the one that runs in the background all
the time. You can't stop it, or even pause it. You can't remember
something and so you move on with other things. Your conscious brain
stops thinking about it. Your subconscious doesn't stop and
continues working. It comes up with the answer. Example; you can't
remember someone's name. You go on with your daily business. And
then the name suddenly pops into your head. Maybe days later.</div>
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I love to write, but there's a problem.
Once I start, I can't stop. I'm obsessed with writing. I'm
compulsive about it. Obsessive. Compulsive. Obsessive-compulsive.
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So when I start goofing on people on
Facebook, or imparting my political wisdom, my unconscious brain is
still working on writing say, a book. I can't turn it off. Not
until I finish the book. So I might flip from FB suddenly and go
back to the book. I write and write, wondering where is this stuff
coming from? My unconscious brain.<br /><br />I can write day or night.
It doesn't matter. I'll be sound asleep and my unconscious brain
wakes me up with a really great idea. The best idea. Only I can
write this. It should have been written long ago, but that's OK.
OK, I'll stop Trumping now. Hey, I just made up a word. Good one,
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I have two novels on the market. Each
is about 80,000 words, which is a full length novel. Each one took
me only three weeks to write. Some people can't even read a novel in
three weeks let alone write one.</div>
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But when I'm OCD writing, I tend to
keep weird hours. I do bizarre things. I can slip into one of my
characters and post strange things on Facebook. I'm writing. That
is part of the process for me. My conscious brain is on Facebook
while my unconscious works on the book. It is all part of the
process.<br /><br />OCD writing must be why so many authors have
retreats. So they don't bother those around them. Like Hemmingway.
He isolated himself in Key West. But, like Hemmingway, they may
crash and burn. They may go nutty and shoot themselves. Like
Hemmingway. To prevent that, I have to physically leave my apartment
retreat. I walk, I might watch TV (on my laptop. I don't have TV), I
might shoot pool. Anything to get away.
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I'm on my eighth book, and to ease up
on the OCD writing I'll do anything. Yesterday, I walked about a
mile and a half to give one of my books to our town library. I
stopped at our post office to mail out a book. If I don't
consciously step back, I'll start OCD writing again. And when I do
that, I have a book done in three weeks. That's a problem. I rarely
sleep and when I do, it's odd hours. I might not eat, being too busy
writing to stop and eat. Not eating puts me in the hospital.,
besides losing weight like crazy. I've lost three pounds in a month
writing my current book project. I might forget things, like
appointments or doing my taxes. It's all part of writing.</div>
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It's the process.</div>
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But it was when I joined an art group that I surmised that many artists (painters, sculptors) did not take photography seriously as an art form. It was just taking pictures. So I volunteered to do a presentation on photography at the Appleton Museum in Ocala.
If you're interested, here is a link to my presentation in a PDF format. Please excuse the duplicate frames.
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This is one of my favorite portraits. Why? Because we've all been there, and as we've gotten older, we've forgotten the joy of being pulled on a sled by mom or dad. It captures a single moment in time. Hopefully, this photo made you smile, just a bit. Is it just taking pictures?
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-65792606842069519552019-09-19T13:19:00.002-04:002019-09-19T13:22:56.851-04:0069 Ninth Birthday.... really?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For everyone wishing me a happy birthday today... thank you. I should not be here. The tree whacking me on the head in 2013 would have killed a normal person. But me Irish genes pulled me through, and my Polish side says "You want a fight? C'mon, bring it."</div>
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And me Irish side keeps saying...</div>
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The devil whispered in my ear "you are not strong enough to withstand the storm."</div>
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I whispered in the devil's ear, "I am the storm."</div>
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Your birthday wishes remind me of how lucky and tough I am. And to the devil... you do not want me down there. I will make your life a living hell.</div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-8040946165597284252018-03-29T18:43:00.002-04:002018-03-29T18:43:38.406-04:00Take a Tour of Downtown Fort McCoy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Eureka is a nice small little town. We have a Marathon gas station but that's it. Anything more than that and we have to make the five mile trek all of the way into Fort McCoy. To give you a flavor of what it is like, here is a photo tour for you.<br />
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Larry's Auto Center. A good guy, good business.</div>
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The local grocery store. It reminds me of an old IGA</div>
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Next to fishin', huntin' is a very big deal on Eureka Mountain. So big that Junior hosts a big wing-ding at his camp. Such it was yesterday. All of Eureka Mountain showed up.<br />
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The Miata with roofin' tape holdin' the top together is Pamela's, and then Gib's truck, and someone's off road 4x4. There seems to be as many 4x4s as pickups.<br />
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It was chilly, down in the low 60s. Nuthin' like a hot fire to warm up with.</div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-46258263525515958682017-10-01T07:54:00.003-04:002017-10-01T07:54:58.742-04:00The Bleecker Mountain Weight and Height Loss Program<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I've been reading old entries on this blog, enjoying the ones where we were working on our ten acres in preparation for building our off grid homestead. Good stuff, at least for me.<br /><br />I chucked at my nefarious schemes to get rid of rocks and make a few bucks. The Bleecker Mountain Do-it-yourself Stone Wall Kit (some assembly required). The Bleecker Mountain Rock of the Month Club (getting desperate now). Lots of tongue in cheek humor in there.<br /><br />But the posts about the Bleecker Mountain Weight Loss Program set a different tone. When we left the boat and started working the land, I was 6' 1" tall and weighed 202 pounds. A little overweight for my ectomorph frame. Then we started working, and I was down to 197, and then 183. And then I got whacked with a tree, breaking my neck. While no longer capable of hard labor, I also didn't eat much and maintained my weight.<br /><br />A year or so later, I visited my PA in Caroga Lake for a check-up. The nurse assistant took my blood pressure and told me what it was (I don't recall now) and my weight (180 or so), and my height.<br /><br />"Five feet ten inches," she said.<br />
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"What? No, I'm six feet one inch." my manly self protested.<br />
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"Let me check again," she said. "Actually, you're five feet nine and three quarters."<br />
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Well, this was news. How did I lose three inches... THAT TREE! It smacked me square on the head, and must have compressed my vertebrae. That bastard! Now I'm... AVERAGE! Me? <br />
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So, if you are overweight and too tall, sign up now for the Bleecker Mountain Weight and Height Loss Program. Sign up today and get a free rock! Operators are standing by.<br />
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By the way, I am now down to 163. ~sniff~</div>
Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-34480413059776877752017-09-28T02:53:00.001-04:002017-09-28T02:53:41.336-04:00Amazon's Author Page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
If you've enjoyed this blog over the years... or even if you're new to it... I am now a published author. I just set up my author's page on Amazon. It can be found at<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/davegibson" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/author/davegibson </a><br />
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It is still a work in process. but it has the links to my books, both paperback and Kindle.<br />
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If you read and enjoy the books, I'd appreciate a four or five star review. If you didn't like the books, it is not possible to leave a review.</div>
Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-47862977902337372562017-09-27T14:37:00.002-04:002017-09-27T14:37:41.545-04:00Dawn, and the Old Goat Fence and Deck Company<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My buddy Gib was telling me about a side job he got to repair an acquaintance's horse fence. Since Gib does so many things for Pam and I, I offered to give him a hand, gratis. We finished that job, and were referred to another, one in which I would be paid, as well as our friend Hank.<br />
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We were to start on a certain week. Luckily, I had just gotten out of the hospital, but Hank we in. We had to postpone for a week. Not an auspicious start.<br /><br />It was the dawn of a new day (I love that cliche').<br />
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This is the ranch, here in Florida.<br /><br />We were working and Gib said "I have a name for our business. The Old Goat Fence Company". <br />
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Well, the owner seemed pleased with his fence and asked us about building a deck. We are now "The Old Goat Fence and Deck Company". Same motto. We not be the fastest workers, but we're diligent. This is our mascot.<br /><br />
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We only work from 7 to noon. After that, it is simply too hot. We also take a couple of breaks to cool down. Hey, if we wind up in the hospital, we ain't workin'. <br />
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This is a typical day for retired folk in Florida, and when Pamela has a day off.<br />
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Today was the day that Pamela announced she was cleaning a foot of bedding out of the goat pen. It is now the rainy season, and it was getting nasty in there. I did my part by running around the yard with a manure rake, scooping up dog poop. Yep, with four good sized dogs, it doesn't take long.<br />
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The first step was to release the Krak...um.. the goats, Amos n' Andy.<br />
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Our friend Gib could use the old bedding for his compost pile for his garden next year. Pam had him pull up next to the pen so she could toss the old bedding right in the truck bed.<br />
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If Ruby, our protective female pitbull, doesn't understand what's happening, she makes her displeasure known.<br /><br />
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But when she realized there was no danger, the loading of the bedding was allowed to proceed. Two truck loads worth.<br /><br />Pam also put the plywood roof back up. The goats had knocked it down, and the next few days are forecast to be rainy. Thank gawd.<br /><br />The burn ban is off in Marion County, so I was also able to torch that today. Baby steps, but it's progress.</div>
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Pamela went to the Keys with friends for four days. This is the dogs when she got home.<br />
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-68355526810181526022016-12-17T22:23:00.002-05:002016-12-17T22:23:54.193-05:00My First Sasquatch Sighting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I saw my first Sasquatch tonight.</div>
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Pamela and I lived with them all around our cabin for three years in upstate New York. Pamela saw her buddy, but I never saw one. Never. My rationale was that you don't see one unless it allows you too, or simply doesn't care that you do.</div>
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Well, I was returning from a book signing at Winter Haven, Florida with author Scott Marlowe. Pamela was tending bar at the Pig Pen in Hog Valley, so I was driving down Hog Valley Road, which passes through the Ocala National Forest. I was tired and pretty much on auto pilot. It was dark. I was driving through a desolate part of the road. On my left was what looked like taillights, bright red. But this area is as flat as a pancake, and these lights were high off the ground. I slowed down to see what it was as I passed. The red lights weren't red lights at all. It was eye shine, anywhere from eight to ten feet off the ground. As I slowly passed it, the eyes followed me. My high beams caught it. It was a Sasquatch. He was simply standing there watching me drive by. He didn't bolt. He didn't run. He didn't duck. He just stood there. My jaw dropped and my brain disconnected. I drove to the Pig Pen, my brain still disconnected. I sat in the car thinking. I'm not afraid of Sasquatch. Why didn't I stop, back up, and turn a bit to shine my headlights directly on it? I don't know why. It was like being in shock or something.</div>
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I looked for it on my drive home. Nothing.</div>
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So I lived with them all around in New York for three years. They ran around the cabin, knocked on the walls and windows, and hollered outside. I never saw one. But driving in Hog Valley, one just stood there. Nice as you please. Amazing.</div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-23280596304021800152016-08-31T09:46:00.000-04:002016-08-31T09:46:00.824-04:00I Am Officially a Hundred-aire!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well, it is official.</div>
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Those of you who have been following this blog understand how bizarre life has been in the past few years. Go ahead, click on the search box and enter "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch". You'll see.</div>
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I published my book "Living Among Sasquatch: A Primer" at the beginning of this year. After sending out free copies to libraries and such, and after flying to New York to speak at a conference, this month's royalty check from the publisher has put me in the black.</div>
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Yes. I'm a hundred-aire. Woo hoo!</div>
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My Sasquatch related novel is moving along well now. I'm at 114 pages, and over 31,000 words. Since I stopped thinking about what I was going to write and just let my fingers type, it is going much more smoothly.</div>
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I can't wait to sit down to write today, and to see what happens next because I have no idea.</div>
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Coincidently, this memory popped up on Facebook from three years ago...</div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16.08px;">had to shut the dogs up in the cabin. I can hear a buck scraping the velvet from his horns not far from the cabin. The dogs don't know what it is but they want to go find out.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">This is pretty funny, because knowing now what I didn't know then, that was no buck. That would have been a Sasquatch. Most likely Pamela's big hairy friend. It would have been warning others that there was now humans living in the cabin.</span></div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-18786814756160002312016-08-20T15:13:00.000-04:002016-08-20T15:13:16.054-04:00Crystal River, Florida in Photos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Our new favorite place here in Florida is Crystal River.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">I was photographing my wife, grandson, and dog... and I get photobombed by a goat. </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="2er37-0-0">Look, I've accepted the fact that all of my female dogs are smarter than me. Only Chevy, my male pitbull, is also as dumb as a bag of hammers.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2b65f-0-0">The goats are here eating weeds. It has been a battle to keep them out of the garage where they love to go to eat cardboard, garbage, andplastic flowers.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="2cipu-0-0">I put up a fence, which works well, but I need a gate that the dogs can go in and out of, but that the goats can't. So first I made a swinging gate. Penelope the puppy escape artist figured out in seconds how to swing it open to come and go, shortly thereafter followed by our pointer, Olivia. Perfect. Goats are too stupid to figure out a swinging gate.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="ebrep-0-0">Wrong. Amos the Goat watched the dogs with great interest, and within a couple of days was coming and going. Great. Just great.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="fmpsb-0-0">Plan B. Raise the gate up and fix it so it doesn't swing. The dogs can crawl under the gate, but the goats are too tall. Perfect.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="36fa2-0-0">Wrong. See photo. Our goats must do the limbo when we're not home. </span></div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-53710881476683463792016-08-01T13:54:00.002-04:002016-08-01T15:00:58.069-04:00The Ticket<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span data-offset-key="667vt-0-0">I got a $180 ticket yesterday for having a beer.</span><br />
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<span class="_5u8u" data-offset-key="9jhp4-0-0" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #dce6f8;"><span data-offset-key="9jhp4-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pamela</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="9jhp4-1-0"> and I often go to various places in the Ocala National Forest. There are many springs, and yesterday we went to Mill Dam which is a lovely picnic spot with a small sandy beach on a small lake. Like all places in the Ocala National Forest, it has signs saying "No alcohol".</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="a6nrh-0-0">Well, me being an old fart pirate and all, I read that to mean "Don't get drunk 'n shit". Certainly it doesn't apply to the adults who go there. Simply keep it out of sight, don't get drunk, loud, and rowdy. That sign is meant for kids who would have keggers there otherwise, not retired old men.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="6ftf4-0-0">Wrong.</span><br />
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<span class="_5u8u" data-offset-key="e5hfr-0-0" spellcheck="false" style="background-color: #dce6f8;"><span data-offset-key="e5hfr-0-0"><span data-text="true">Pamela</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="e5hfr-1-0"> and I are on the little beach. It is hot, as it is everyday in Florida. After swimming, I go to our little cooler, pull out a beer and slide it into its coozy. I sit in my beach chair, and PQ says to cover it. Here comes the cops, two of them. I stick my hat over it.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="ddar1-0-0">"Sir, is that a beer?" says the lady cop.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="p2u5-0-0">Me, being me, say "It is a ginger ale." Hey, it could be. I haven't even opened it yet.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="a3vb1-0-0">"Can I see it?"</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="djdn6-0-0">I take the cold beverage and hold it up.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="c1m2p-0-0">"Slide it out of the coozy please."</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="2h9pq-0-0">"You only packed ginger ale, right honey?" I say to Pam. I slide it out. It is a beer. "It is a miracle!" No smiles from the lady officer. The man officer chuckled.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="bc07j-0-0">"Sir, I'm going to need you to put that cooler in your car and show me your drivers license."</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9u0gr-0-0">Uh oh. Seriously?</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="t8qb-0-0">Long story short, they gave me a ticket. Oh, they were nice about it, and I wasn't a jerk about it either. I joked around with them.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="7k4le-0-0">"Did you see the signs?" they said.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="dh6b1-0-0">"Sure. But I thought it was intended to keep rowdy drunk kids from partying, not an old man from having a beer on a steamy hot Florida afternoon."</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="eau28-0-0">So they handed me a ticket. $150, plus a $30 processing fee. WTF is a processing fee? It sounds like bullshit to me. I pay $30 for the honor of them taking my money? </span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="d14u8-0-0">But the cops were indeed nice about it and not jerks. After they handed me the ticket, I said "I feel like I should thank you, but I can't thank you for giving me a ticket. But you were nice about it, so thank you for being nice about it."</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="dhr81-0-0">I really thought I could joke my way out of that one. Nope.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="9vqig-0-0">So from now on, I'm going to do what everyone else does and put my beer in a Slurpy cup from the Kangaroo.</span></div>
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We took another trip to Silver Glen springs yesterday. It was a nice day, although thunder clouds moved in late in the afternoon. But that's Florida weather.<br />
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This squirrel was interested in our boiled peanuts and pretzels.</div>
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Check out the blue of this water...</div>
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which was no doubt the reason to make such colorful floaties.</div>
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Kids love this place!</div>
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Snorkel the springs!</div>
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The striped bass love the constant 72 degree water coming out of the springs. They don't do well over 75 degrees.</div>
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The small boils in the forest is closed to the public...</div>
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Caught a fish!</div>
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Caught an unguarded picnic table!</div>
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Yep. I'm really reaching here. This has nothing to do with life in Bleecker, and most certainly not much to do with even living in Florida.<br /><br />I shoot a lot of pool. I love to shoot, but it is also physical therapy for my bum right arm. I wear weights on my right hand when I shoot now, to try to rebuild some muscle.<br />
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My friends Russell and Star have a little boy named Trenton. He's five or six. He challenged me to a game of 8 ball. I had run all of my balls and Trenton, barely able to pick up a cue stick and even hit a ball, had all seven of his left. Well, he buried the 8 ball, and trying a fancy bank shot to sink my eight, I scratched instead.<br />
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"Trenton, you beat me." said I.<br />
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Trenton looked at me with a blank stare.<br />
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"Trenton, you beat me. You won!"<br />
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His eyes grew big... then he got all excited and grinned from ear to ear. Russell told me the next day that it was all he could talk about all night.<br />
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I have a pool table in the garage. I also have a bunch of old cue sticks. One was cut short to use on the side of the table close to a garage wall (I've since moved the table). I decided to refinish this short stick and give it to Trenton.<br />
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I sanded all of the old finish off this stick and stained it. The bottom part I put on more stain to make it darker. Where the light stain and the dark stain met on the shaft needed to have a band of black paint to mask the joint. I needed a lathe, along with black paint and a brush to make a smooth finsih. I don't have a lathe here. What to do?<br />
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My dad was a master of improvisation. I think some of that rubbed of on me. I used a battery powered drill, two small dumb bells, a fishing boat anchor which was cement in a coffee can, a clamp on vise, and a nail.<br />
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My cue stick lathe on the garage pool table.</div>
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Two dumb bells, the fishing anchor, and the clamp on vise.</div>
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Nail inserted into a hole in the cue stick.</div>
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The joint that was to recieve the black paint.</div>
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The black paint.</div>
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It came out OK. I'll post a pic of the finished product in a day or two.</div>
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Hey, we retired guys have the time to mess around with little projects like this.</div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-49454542610832619612016-07-11T10:36:00.000-04:002016-07-11T10:36:10.592-04:00Adult Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea microptera (Beauvois))<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Adult Eastern Lubber Grasshopper (Romalea microptera (Beauvois)) is an extremely large grasshopper found in the south. It is called a lubber (as in land lubber) because it cannot fly and is extremely clumsy, climbing over obstacles with great difficulty. Still, it can do a lot of damage to Florida's citrus crops.</span><br />
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It may be clumsy and awkward, and it may do damage to crops, but it is beautiful.</div>
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Dave Gibsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00521055331641320893noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5175895587229052204.post-25513935234991828042016-07-10T09:19:00.001-04:002016-07-10T09:19:38.523-04:00Silver Glen Springs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its been HOT down here in Florida. 104 degrees the other day, over 100 for several days in a row. We found a new spring that we like even better than Salt Springs, called Silver Glen Springs. This one has many more picnic tables than Salt Springs does. <br />
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Each Florida day seems like the one before. Back to Silver Glen!</div>
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Brad and Judi.</div>
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