http://www.bloggard.com/blog/ Heed Ye, and Let This be a Lesson unto You. en-us Nucleus CMS v3.24 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.bloggard.com/blog//nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://www.bloggard.com/blog/ http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=624 Henrietta, Texas circa 1970: Darrel Blain went to school with my brother, David Strickland, and sometimes rode his bike out to the farm near Hurnville to visit. Like any kid growing up in Henrietta, his mother bought his clothes at John's Drygoods... 5 Looking Back http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=624 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:22:18 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=623 Nocona Texas, 1969: Bob Standley is my brother-in-law, because he married my sister Mary. But some time before they got married, when he was in high school, he had a Chevy Malibu. He had a little job, I think it was at the boot factory, and he ... 5 Looking Back http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=623 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:28:46 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=625 Weed, California June 18, 2008: Walking the dogs in the huge vacant lot toward the end of day, I plucked a thick blade from an uprising of wild grasses, and made a loud whistle. This both excited and alarmed the dogs. So we had a little game all t... 4 Projects http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=625 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:44:00 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=622 Weed, California, June 18, 2008: The other day I woke up thinking about the word 'fearless.' Have you ever known anybody who was actually fearless? I haven't. Pretty much any human, any mammal, has fear. And that makes sense, because if a c... 2 Views http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=622 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:08:19 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=621 Wikipedia, 6/14/2008: Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events which occur in a meaningful manner, but which are causally un-related. In order to be 'synchronistic', the events must be related to one another temporally, and the chance... 2 Views http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=621 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:42:18 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=620 Weed, California, Sunday June 8, 2008: About a week ago, Glenn the Magnificent and two of his beer-guzzling crew (Big Bob and Jesse the Bulldog) came and ran the water line into the shop. They dug around in the yard until they found the water ... 3 Problems http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=620 Mon, 9 Jun 2008 09:17:44 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=618 Squidoo.com, May 31, 2008: For those as may be interested, the Bloggard, in his persona as Traktor Topaz, mild-mannered musician at a great metropolitan newspaper, has posted an article at Squidoo. For some reason, the Squidarians call an arti... 1 News http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=618 Sat, 31 May 2008 20:32:36 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=243 Somewhere in Kansas, Summer 1960: I was a truck driver on the wheat harvest, working for the Moser family. We cut the grain and hauled it to the grain elevator for the farmers, and we moved north as the grain ripened. On this particular afterno... 5 Looking Back http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=243 Sun, 25 May 2008 05:30:00 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=157 Henrietta, Texas, 1951. My mother played her nice radio in the evenings, and we listened to Green Lantern, the Phantom, the Great Gildersleeve, the Lone Ranger, and the Inner Sanctum. Not long after, television would arrive, stealing drama from th... 5 Looking Back http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=157 Thu, 22 May 2008 05:15:00 -0700 http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=452 Henrietta, Texas, 1971: After Dr. Strickland had died, but before we moved to the farm, I'd finally completed my Bachelor's Degree at Midwestern University, so I lived in our home on the west side of town. (Just across from where Eddy Frank lives ... 5 Looking Back http://www.bloggard.com/blog/index.php?itemid=452 Wed, 21 May 2008 05:10:00 -0700