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December 03, 2009 04:09 PM EST --
Sorry to unload but must tell about my last two months. I was on vacation in Panama City Beach mid October when I got a call my Mom was in the hospital with Pneumonia. They operated to scoop . . .
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July 28, 2009 02:41 PM EDT --
I was trying to teach my young daughter how to fish with a bamboo pole.
After chumming up some bream and shinners with bread, I baited her hook with a worm and threw it into the water.
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July 28, 2009 02:35 PM EDT --
I have been seeing some posts about the homeless.
I know a story of a woman who was homeless by choice but not of her chosing.
That may seem confusing.
This woman was very . . .
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July 27, 2009 04:07 PM EDT --
A woman took a trip to a remote island. There she sees beautiful weavings done by the indigenous women. Asking what they wanted for them, she could see a very large profit for herself selling them . . .
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July 27, 2009 03:47 PM EDT --
I know the genre is fable but I have a true story to tell.
My husband’s aunt was a bit eccentric. Her husband left her very wealthy but she would only buy two dresses at Goodwill . . .
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July 20, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
The brochure said a trip of a lifetime, a two week “cruise” of the universe. It went on to talk about space “folds” and time “strings” and a bunch of other scientific . . .
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July 09, 2009 08:29 PM EDT --
This isn't a pleasant story and I debated if I should even post it. Last week an 8ft albino python strangled to death a two year old living in the next county over. The mother's live-in . . .
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July 09, 2009 08:14 PM EDT --
I just saw a video of someone catching a large fish and it brought back memories. When I was eleven or twelve I went to visit my grandparents in Miami. Grandpa presented me with a shiny metalic . . .
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July 08, 2009 10:56 AM EDT --
Florida has laws against any fireworks that go into the air. The exception is if you are going to use them for agricultural purposes. All the buyer has to do is sign a paper that they will . . .
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June 21, 2009 07:55 PM EDT --
My kids are all up and grown but I would babysit my granddaughter while her mother worked. Each day I would lie in bed and read her a story at nap time. She would often read along with me. . . .
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June 21, 2009 06:31 PM EDT --
I remember this from when I was around 6. My Dad was raised on a farm and never walked around barefoot outdoors. My Mom convinced him how nice it was to feel the clover beneath one's feet. . . .
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June 19, 2009 04:39 PM EDT --
I have to do just one more today. Another funeral story. A friend of ours father died. They didn't have much money so he was cremated and they carried his ashes to the National Cemetery themselves . . .
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June 19, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
This story is about my grandmother's funeral. After the Church services and we were in the family Limo supplied by the funeral home, the driver found out that that my dad had been out . . .
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June 19, 2009 12:18 PM EDT --
Here's another example of humor during stressful times. I was going to have surgery for a complete bowel obstruction caused by colon cancer. I had less than two weeks to live if nothing was . . .
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June 19, 2009 11:54 AM EDT --
Humor can show up at the oddest times. An example: My husband was having a serious heart attack and we were rushing from the Emergency room to the elevator to cardiac surgery. Before . . .
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June 09, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
Article from the St. Petersburg Times, June 9th, 2009
It is unusual for a game of fetch with your dog to turn deadly, but a woman playing with her dog in Erkrath, Germany, had to call the police . . .
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June 08, 2009 01:02 PM EDT --
This was in the Citrus County Chronicle June 8th, 2009
GRANTSBURG, Wis.-- It was no honey pot like in "Winnie the Pooh" but a bear cub in Wisconsin was spotted with a bird feeder stuck on his . . .
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June 08, 2009 12:52 PM EDT --
From the Citrus County Chronicle June 8th, 2009
GROVELAND-- A Florida woman's barking dog saved her from a fire at her home.
Lillian Miller, 58, thought that her Chihuahua mix Spaz just needed to . . .
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June 07, 2009 05:26 PM EDT --
This is taken from an article by Betty Berger reported in the Inverness Pioneer, June 4, 2009
Dr. John Hamlet was a naturalist with the Homosassa Springs Attraction....He missed having a dog around. . . .
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May 22, 2009 06:50 PM EDT --
It seems once you start to volunteer, all types of oportunities to learn and expand your experiences open to you. This week I was asked to help update the information in the data base of people . . .
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