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Tending the livestock

February 22, 2012

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Miss Sadie and the Cowboy kept me plenty busy today and we  all feel better for it.  Sometimes I lose track of the important things.  They always remind me.  When you’re outdoors with animals, even days that look like this one feel . . . exhilarating.  Something close to that anyway.  Close enough to count […]

I want to thank the Members of the Academy, the Cowboy and Miss Sadie

February 21, 2012

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On Monday afternoon I was down at the State Theatre being fitted for a volunteer usher costume. We had a choice of headwear, bowties, pearls and stick-on mustaches to accessorize our tasteful maroon usher jackets. The popcorn was excellent.

The lay of the land

February 14, 2012

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Recently Mrs. Uhdd said she was going to go off and look at an atlas to figure out the lay of the land Around Here. It occurred to me that I should write about the geography, just to give you a context should you be from Away.

Sunning ourselves on the beach

February 13, 2012

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Miss Sadie and the Cowboy could stand it no longer. They dragged me outdoors and made me go for a walk on the beach.

Another precinct heard from

February 11, 2012

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Nothing like a little winter rivalry to bring out fence-painters in force, leaving me free to spend my time reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 to my Civil War veterans. (The part about the town of cats stirred them up.)

Dinner at Pearl’s

February 8, 2012

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Life goes meandering along, and then one day you realize . . . it is time to go to Pearl’s. It is time to have a Golden Margarita and a Plantation Platter and some cornbread. Maybe a bowl of corn chowder with crayfish, or some Ya-Ya Gumbo. Fried green tomatoes, red bean cakes . . […]