Month: July 2015
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2015 Summer Wonders #51: Return of The Watermelon
It’s STILL watermelon week at Old Road Apples’ summer wonders. Where the livin’s easy.
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Where’s Chuck? Friday 7.31.15
I’m on vacation, but I planned ahead. Presuming that we stay on track, we’ll be seeing a lot of cool things–here’s what I hope to see today. Most of our time is going to be spent here… But the Nebraska state capital, otherwise known as “the penis of the plains” should be worth a quick […]
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Wednesday Words 7/29: The Bible on Dog Vomit
Yes, my religious views have been well documented across the whirled why’d web, so you’re a little surprised to see me quoting “the good book” but there’s a lot of great stuff in there, some of it resoundingly, wonderfully evocative. Like this. Proverbs 26:11: As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth […]
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2015 Summer Wonders #50: You Can Never Get Enough Watermelon
It’s watermelon week at Old Road Apples’ summer wonders. Enjoy.
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Where’s Chuck? Thursday 7.30.15
I’m on vacation, but I planned ahead. Presuming that we stay on track, we’ll be seeing a lot of cool things–here’s what I hope to see today. Illinois, Iowa, and on to Lincoln, Nebraska. Nothing big on the schedule today–just mileage… Carl Sandburg’s birthplace in Galesburg, Il The inappropriately named Sandburg Mall just across town, […]
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2015 Summer Wonders #49: Still More Watermelon
It’s cool, refreshing watermelon week at Old Road Apples’ summer wonders.
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Where’s Chuck? Wednesday 7.29.15
I’m on vacation, but I planned ahead. Presuming that we stay on track, we’ll be seeing a lot of cool things–here’s what I hope to see today. Turkey Run State Park, Indiana. Snuggled up against the Illinois border, some shocking beauty in the land of unending cornfields.
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VACATION!
By the time you wake up and read this–by the time the WordPress robot publishes this–I’ll be two large travel mugs and a couple hundred miles into our big vacation, having slipped off in the foggy pre-dawn morning on our way west, and we hope to stay on vacation for several weeks. I’ve lived in […]
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2015 Summer Wonders #48: Even More Watermelon
It’s watermelon week on Old Road Apples summer wonders…
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Tunesday: Dusty Brown
I’ve realized that I’m a musical schizophrenic–or worse. My favorite music is probably either from that transition to “college alternative” via New Wave via Punk (if you can’t guess my age from that, shame on you) or old school country western, and the modern “Americana” music that draws so much spirit from it, but I […]
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