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Doc
Blakely
Pokin' Fun
Actual names are not being used in this factual
account in order to protect the guilty. This is the story of a
real wild goose chase. It seems that four fellows have
been meeting for years during goose hunting season, supposedly
to hunt the honkers in the famous Lissie Prairie rice fields
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Monte
Noelke
Shortgrass Country
On the Colorado part of the trip, we reached the
gate to Mesa Verde National Park moments before opening time.
The ranger held us up for two minutes to pass. I‘d raced to
be early to beat the Winnebago caravans climbing the lofty
roads. Causes dizzy spells to follow along behind a mishmash
of bumper stickers plastered on the back of a bus, especially
if a wheel on an upside-down bicycle is spinning on a bumper
rack. |
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Baxter
Black
On The Edge Of
Common Sense
At the convenience store I poured a 12-ounce
styrofoam cup half full of coffee. Then I put it under the
cappuccino chemical flavor dispenser and dribbled in French
magnesium vanilla, hot cobalt chocolate and hazelnut ammonium
hydroxide. Then I took two each of the pasteurized
artificially flavored synthetic Irish creme, amaretto chloride
and mentholated mint in their peel, spill and drip sealed
thimble cups and tried to splash their contents in the
ever-filling 12-ounce cup. |
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Linda
Mussehl
As
I See It ...
Sometimes I just hate it when I'm right. Several
weeks ago we saw on the news that humanitarian food drops
would accompany the bombing of Afghanistan. They showed the
yellow packets that were to drop from the sky upon the hungry
people of Afghanistan. |
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Lee Pitts
Its The Pitts
In trying to educate little kids about bovines, I've
been asked some interesting questions through the years.
Perhaps the most thought-provoking query came from a cute
little five year-old girl who wanted to know if cows celebrate
holidays? What a silly question; of course they do. |
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Charles
Rodenberger
The
Computer& The Cowboy
One of the amazing things that can be done with
computers is that you can talk to one and have your words
printed on the screen. Rush Limbaugh has lost his hearing and
his talk show requires that he know what a caller is saying.
He is using voice recognition software to see what is being
said. That is why there is a hesitation before he answers. He
has to read the screen. |
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D'Ann Ducote
Palabras
Appearances…In one of Louis L’Amour’s novels the
author comments that there is an appearance of
strength, but it is not always the reality of strength.
That observation pushed me to think about other qualities that
are, for some, appearances and not realities.
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Dale Rollins, Ph. D.
Wildlife By
Design
This past Sunday marked my first ever
"Daddy-Daughter" quail hunt. But I dare say it won't
be the last. Over the years, I've chronicled my son Travis'
ontogeny, especially as it relates to lessons learned while
afield. But I confess I've been a poor outdoor mentor for my
daughter Krissa. And now here she is, a senior in high school.
Before much longer, she'll be "gone." I've got some
catching up to do.
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