Late last Sunday afternoon, as I was here tidying up my travel trailer just a bit, I suddenly had the urge to sneeze.
And then it hit: AAAAAAAAACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
And it was a powerful sneeze!
Most of the time, when I sneeze, nothing much else happens.
That sneeze, though, was the opening salvo of five rotten days of of runny [...]
Archive for January, 2009
FINALLY, A BIT OF RELIEF!
Posted in sinus head cold, tagged miserable cold, sinus head cold on January 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
BUSTED! NO HIDING IT NOW! THANKS, AUNTIE!
Posted in The Iron Brigade Civil War History, children in an orphanage, family memoirs, mischievous behavior, sudden death of a parent, tagged children in an orphanage, family memoirs, mischievous behavior, parental struggles, sudden death of a parent, The Iron Brigade on January 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
In yesterday’s mail here at my P.O. Box in Long Beach, I received a large, manila envelope from stepmother Nancy, from up in the Wisconsin snow country, which contained the typed memoirs of my late Aunt Erma, one of my dad’s sisters, which she wrote in February 2003, before she passed away.
In her memoirs, Aunt [...]
THE SECRET OF LIFE
Posted in Uncategorized on January 16, 2009 | 13 Comments »
As I was driving home this evening, along the coast highway from Biloxi, over to my travel trailer in Long Beach, I was listening to a CD by Faith Hill, one of my favorite recording artists.
The winds had quieted down, and the lights reflected off the gulf waters at the port complex in Gulfport, made [...]
HUMMINGBIRD TRAPPING: SUCH AN ADVENTURE!
Posted in Buff-belly Hummingbirds, Fort Morgan Alabama Bird Banding Station, Hummer/Bird Study Group, Hummingbird capture and study, Hummingbird migration, Master Naturalist, Mississippi Gulf Coast Hummingbirds, Mississippi hummingbirds, Mississippi wintering hummingbirds, Pass Christian winter hummingbirds, Rufous Hummingbirds, Wintering hummingbirds, hummingbird study and documentation, tagged Buff-belly Hummingbirds, capturing hummingbirds, Fort Morgan Alabama Bird Banding Station, Hummer/Bird Study Group, Hummingbird capture and study, Hummingbird migration, hummingbird study, Master Naturalist, Mississippi Gulf Coast Hummingbirds, Mississippi wintering hummingbirds, Pass Christian winter hummingbirds, Rufous Hummingbirds, Wintering hummingbirds on January 12, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Hummingbird study and enjoyment isn’t only during the spring, summer and fall, when most hummingbird activity takes place in southern Mississippi. It can happen during winter months, too, supposedly after the hummingbirds have migrated farther south. This post kind of follows up on a recent post about migrating hummingbirds, What A Buzz! Hummers By The [...]






