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Ok, Blue Bird fans, it’s Week #17 update time for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Blue Bird Program in the city of Long Beach, on the 45-acre campus of the South Mississippi Regional Center!
So, here is what ‘Master Naturalist’ buddy John and I found today, June 27, 2008, walking around campus during a Friday morning, taking [...]

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I want to provide a quick update on the medical condition of my nephew Steve, who is in Intensive Care at a Madison, Wisconsin hospital this week.
During two serious operations two days ago, Steve came to be in critical condition, after massive internal bleeding requiring over a hundred units of blood to be moved into [...]

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PLEASE SAY A PRAYER FOR STEVE

For the Coast Rat, these are most anxious days and hours.
When my cell phone rang yesterday afternoon at 3:30pm, and I saw that the caller was my brother, I knew something was wrong.
When a member of my extended family calls me during the day, it is seldom just to pass the time.
I punched answer, and [...]

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Yesterday and today, I had the pleasure of hanging around with Master Naturalist Buddy John and Emily, the Tree-Climbing Wonder Dog, out at John’s home north of Pass Christian, Mississippi, on Bayou Arcadia, north of The Bay of St. Louis.
You got a bit of a look at John’s place in my recent post, “Week #13 [...]

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Ok, Blue Bird fans, it’s Week #16 update time for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Blue Bird Program in the city of Long Beach, on the 45-acre campus of the South Mississippi Regional Center!
So, here is what ‘Master Naturalist’ buddy John and I found today, June 20, 2008, walking around campus during a Friday afternoon, taking [...]

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In my recent post “JUKE BOX MAGIC – THE FIRST TIME I REALLY ‘SAW’ THE GIRL I WAS GOING TO MARRY” I wrote about ‘Blond Girl’ and explained how I came to go on my first ‘date’ with her, to a movie.
Fast forward to May 11, 1967.
It was Blond Girl’s twenty-first Birthday.
She had transferred to [...]

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It was about 3 weeks or so ago, that I posted “Dammit! (Not you, Maggie)” about my experience during an evening supper at a Buffet in west Biloxi, when four women sitting at the table next to mine, all ended up talking on their cell phones at the same time.
After finishing my day job late [...]

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Ok, Blue Bird fans, it’s Week #15 update time for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Blue Bird Program in the city of Long Beach, on the 45-acre campus of the South Mississippi Regional Center!
So, here is what ‘Master Naturalist’ buddy John and I found today, June 12, 2008, walking around campus during (this week) on a [...]

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Well, another birthday is just about in the books, hot, humid and all.
When I woke up this morning, and felt the pain in my right, lower back was still there from this past weekend, I seriously contemplated calling in to my supervisor and taking a sick day. But I told myself that once I got [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I posted a story about personal experiences of my wife and friend cast as ‘extras’ in the filming of the hit movie, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Yep!”, filmed out at Devils Tower, Wyoming.
During the same period, while the missus and I and our first-born were at home [...]

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