Avon’s Spice Rack:

            Avon has a very nice spice rack. It is built into one of her cabinets. You open the door and there is an array of dozens of spices and herbs, then you swing out the rack and on the other side is another array of spices and herbs. At the back of the cabinet is another rack, so all in all you see a lot of jars and bottles. The problem is that I am a dyed in the wool creature of habit; if something isn’t where I expect it to be then I’m fuddled. I like a little cinnamon on my oatmeal and at 5:00 a.m. I’m in no mood for a search, so if it is in the right place and looks right I use it. If you’ve never had chili powder on oatmeal for breakfast – don’t!

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Another Did you know:

          According to many respected scientists (I’ve read this in 2 books), there is no blue pigment in the animal world. Blue birds, blue jays, and others have feathers colored by light color. Blue eyes, blue butterflies, blue dragonflies, and a blue blue mood are all a trick of light. Try looking at a blue jay feather in total darkness – you can’t see the blue. Now don’t you feel a lot better knowing that? Of course, there is the question of blue hair, but I don’t think that is a natural thing.

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Bumblebees are the craziest people:

          We have 3 bushes, which when flowering attract Bumblebees by the hundreds. I don’t know the name of the bushes so I just call them George Bush, George W. Bush, and Anheuser Bush. When those fat sluggish bad boys converge on the shrubs, I noticed that one stays separated from the rest. He hovers about the perimeter and attacks any flying intruder. I’ve seen him chase off butterflies, June bugs, birds, and even bumblebees, presumably from another tribe. I’ve found that if I toss a small piece of anything in his direction he will chase it – hours of fun. But, after tossing I always try to look really innocent – it wouldn’t do to get him miffed.

50 years ago today, this sweet young thing took on the greatest challenge of her life.... Me!

She seems to have answered the challenge well.

Blocking:

          Many of my more athletic friends know how to block a basketball, block a running back, or block the plate. Some of my techy friends know how to block, spam, pop-ups, and emails from the boss. Any married man knows how to block voices in the feminine range, but do any of you know how to block a fedora? How many of you know what a fedora is? Besides me, who has ever owned one?

Some Possible Animal Meat:

          In the above segment, I mentioned spam, which started me thinking of Spam. I loved that stuff! After hot dogs, it was my favorite thing to eat as a youngster. I even liked that jell it was packed in – I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to eat that stuff. I have no idea what was in it, and I doubt that I would be allowed to eat it now, but I sure loved it – back then.

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Spirit Valley, #7 in the Ben Blue series went live overnight on Amazon Kindle. It is available for most tablets and pads as well as PC and Macs. This is my 10th book overall and marks a milestone in my late life endeavor. I had hoped to have it released next week, but everything seemed to fall into place early.

As for all my books, it's still at a whopping $0.99.

Enjoy.

“Life is much too important to be taken seriously.”

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 A Fine Kettle of Fish – Hickory Jack – Blue – Ace High – Blue Norther – Cain

–  One Man Standing – Rubio –  Cain…just Cain…. and now available…Spirit Valley

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Only in the Ozarks:

          Driving past a construction site yesterday, I saw a sign that made me scratch my head. It read, “Clean Fill Dirt Wanted”. Now, dirt by its very nature is not clean, it’s dirty. How would you get dirt clean – wash it? That would only give you mud, which would be wet dirt. Personally, I think that contractor may as well ask for some green cheese from the moon. He’d have about as much chance getting that, as he would clean dirt.

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 A Fine Kettle of Fish – Hickory Jack – Blue – Ace High – Blue Norther – Cain

–  One Man Standing – Rubio –  Cain…just Cain…. and coming soon…Spirit Valley

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Did you know?

          Did you know that back in 2009 the one-millionth word was added to the English language? It was of the Techno-Gibberish variety, which meant absolutely nothing to me. I would have estimated that there were about one hundred thousand, which would be more than enough. I guess it doesn’t really matter to me because I only know a couple of hundred and can correctly spell only a few of those.

A house of straw:  

          I have mentioned the folks across the road before, Napoleon and Josephine Biggs ( of the $3000 playhouse debacle). I’m mentioning them again. Napoleon mowed the other day and left so much dead grass that the girls piled it up and made a fort with it. They still haven’t used that high dollar playhouse.

“Life is much too important to be taken seriously.”

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 A Fine Kettle of Fish – Hickory Jack – Blue – Ace High – Blue Norther – Cain

–  One Man Standing – Rubio –  Cain…just Cain…. and coming soon…Spirit Valley

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Timing is everything:

          Back in 1973, Avon bought a new Buick Century. It had everything imaginable except an EPA mileage estimate, (that started in about ’75) it turned out to be about 12 mpg by actual calculations. That was the year that the Arab oil embargo hit. Gas prices skyrocketed from $0.35 to $0.75 a gallon. What really hurt was that we traded a VW Karman Ghia in on the Buick, the Ghia got a peak of 40 mpg and never less than 33 mpg. The one consolation was that the Buick could really get down the road. Unfortunately, a 55 mph national speed limit was invoked…. I have to admit though it looked good sitting in the driveway. Yep, those were the good old days.

Truths:

Miscellaneous: Will Rogers once said, “I never met a man I didn’t like.” I feel the same way, but there were some of those… &%**$#, I didn’t like for more than 15 seconds.                        

Lee Brickey

“Life is much too important to be taken seriously.”

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 A Fine Kettle of Fish – Hickory Jack – Blue – Ace High – Blue Norther – Cain

–  One Man Standing – Rubio –  Cain…just Cain…. and coming soon…Spirit Valley

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