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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
I spend a lot of time in an airplane. In fact,
when I recently figured it up on a 40-hour work
week basis, it amounted to four months per year.
And to think I was once described as a fellow who
"really had his feet on the ground." Of
course, that was when they drug me on for my
first flight. Winston Churchill was right when he
said, "There are no atheists in foxholes or
cockpits." I might add there are mighty few
in the passenger section, either. Throw in a
thunderstorm, turbulence, the cough of an engine,
and the team of MadLynn, Murray and O'Hair will
be first in line to make confession ... even to a
rabbi.
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
All on the same recent morning, the
radiotelephone at the ranch failed and my left
hearing aid crashed. Investigation is continuing
into whether it might be connected to the
infamous "I love you" virus. I was able
to contact an employee in Mertzon right a way on
a cell phone to report the outage. He was
instructed to tell General Telephone, the local
carrier, that my number was not in order. Also, I
told him when he contacted repair to tell the
clerk my left hearing aid was out, too. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
Let us explore the vanishing cowboy
— myth or reality. First let us consider a
truly vanished icon, the mastodon hunter. All
that remains of this mighty figure are a few
paintings on a cave wall. That, and a book cover
or two with him in a furry loincloth, posing with
his spear and a Raquel Welch look-alike complete
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
Several years ago we acquired a
cat, a house cat to be precise. We had been
overrun by mice in the house and thought that a
good mouser would solve our problem. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
Where, oh where, had my little dog gone?
I had raised her from a pup and she'd been a
loyal companion for 12 years. That was before she
decided she needed to see the world in her
declining years. Maybe it was a midlife crisis,
or maybe it was the thunder and lightning that
made her want to jump out the window and go in
search of someplace more tranquil. |
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