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August 12, 2012 11:12 AM UTC --
Summer in August can be a brutal thing here in South Georgia, and it usually is. Here recently it has been much wetter and far cooler than we’ve seen in years. A few years ago we had an August . . .
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August 04, 2012 07:42 PM UTC --
If you’ve never mowed a yard with a push mower just ease on away from this conversation. This is a dialog between those of us who have suffered and you will not understand. I will mention the . . .
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August 02, 2012 07:13 PM UTC --
There I was, lying in bed, panting and really not thinking about movies, or anything else like that, and suddenly a line from the film, “The Hours” popped into my head when an actor whose . . .
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July 29, 2012 09:05 PM UTC --
The last time it rained nearly every single day was back in… damn, I can’t remember it raining nearly every day before. It’s not like the rain is coming down in buckets or even . . .
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July 17, 2012 08:16 PM UTC --
One of the true oddities of living in a small town is watching strangers grow up or grow old. Eleven years ago she was a sixteen or seventeen year old girl with an attitude problem and a cute . . .
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July 16, 2012 08:54 PM UTC --
Hi!
My name is Mike Firesmith and I write. This isn’t a surprise to most of you because most of the people who read me know me and most of you have been here before. There have been some . . .
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July 14, 2012 02:12 PM UTC --
The plan is a simple plan and the execution of the plan depends on how hot it gets and how exhausted I get, which are related. The limb that fell has to be removed before I can mow, and I have . . .
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July 13, 2012 01:54 PM UTC --
“Hey!”
It is not only a man yelling at me, but a large man. He’s twice my size, half my age, looks like he’s more than half gorilla, and he’s walking towards me . . .
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July 12, 2012 08:19 PM UTC --
A friend of mine spiraled out of control, consumed by alcohol and lust, and he lost his wife and a seven year old daughter. The odd thing in this tale was it was nearly ended some twenty years earlier, . . .
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July 09, 2012 08:43 AM UTC --
In theory, nature is always in balance and humankind’s influence upsets that balance bringing forth results unwanted and unlooked for. I live far enough back in the woods to be at peace with . . .
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July 07, 2012 10:11 AM UTC --
My father is a meticulous man and he always has been as long as I can remember. Little things bothered him muchly, and when a man has three kids there are many little things that happen every . . .
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July 05, 2012 04:54 PM UTC --
The light went on at one and I woke up. The cell phone was backing up my contacts. It’s an odd thing to be woken up by something that is just light, but that’s what happened. I . . .
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July 04, 2012 11:24 AM UTC --
“Is that for him?” I misunderstand the question at first, and misinterpret the woman’s intent. For the second time in less than a quarter of an hour a human being who is strange . . .
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July 01, 2012 05:44 AM UTC --
There is a certain level of meanness found in groups of people that isn’t found in individuals. If one person goes out and kills a lot of people we are shocked and shaken and we are . . .
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June 30, 2012 07:48 AM UTC --
The fire is set before dawn but this isn’t going to be very much of a blaze. This is land clearing, pure and simple, and I can either hack the mass of vines to death or I can burn them. There are . . .
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June 28, 2012 05:01 AM UTC --
A woman’s dress with tell on her if she isn’t careful or the dress is too thin or if it’s too short, or if it is just too low. But then again, a woman’s body inside of a dress . . .
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June 25, 2012 07:33 PM UTC --
She’s very young, no more than eighteen or nineteen, but she already knows how to work the tiny area at the coffee shop. Smile, lean forward just a bit, hope for a tip of some sort, and back to . . .
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June 24, 2012 03:49 PM UTC --
This is a list of ten songs I never want to hear again, but I know I will:
In ascending order of irritation magnitude…
10. Any song Eric Clapton wrote for a dead relative. . . .
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June 24, 2012 05:13 AM UTC --
Summer in South Georgia means the temperature is going to be close to eighty even at three in the morning. Gone for another one hundred days or so are the cool sunrises that are bug free and refreshing. . . .
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June 17, 2012 12:05 PM UTC --
It’s been a while since I threw a fire, and it is long overdue. The last couple of years have been far too dry for any large bonfires and considering there are families with homes within . . .
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