gad wagon
16 posts
Jun 27, 2012
7:39 AM
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My day as of 9:19 AM:
~5:46 AM - woke up with the 3 family dogs within reach, tails wagging and ready to go outside.
~5:57 AM - water heated for coffee, filled mug, opened door to let the dogs out and go with them in my cut-off shorts, sleeveless shirt, and bare feet.
~6:02 AM - check on live-trap I set last night to find that I caught a baby oppossum. The rat was tiny, but fuzzy and pretty looking
~6:04 AM - yell at dogs to get away from MY oppossum; proceed to walk along side our fish pond, and between our rice and soybean fields with the dogs
~6:21 AM - put the dogs in the house, refill coffee mug, move rocking chair off the front porch (where mosquitos attack ANYTHING) and into the front yard where there is a slight enough breeze to keep the skeeters off. Pray and reflect for about an hour, drinking coffee, watching cars and oversized loads drive down US. HWY 64 in front of my house, while constantly being sidetracked and daydreaming.
~7:46 AM - come inside and and talk to Mom a little bit before she heads to work. Wave bye to her from the porch as she pulls out. All the while, she is grinning as I sqeak away on a Special 20, B harp that Tom repaired at Hill Country (Thanks Tom @ Blue Moon Harmonicas). I'm impromtu-ing a synchopated jam like Gussow's song, "Kick and Stomp." A note about HCH: That was my first experience every of other blues harmonica players. I have played alone since I began a year and a half ago. What did I take away from the weekend? Hitting a few GOOD notes is a LOT better than going crazing and wailing on every hole, and that tone can make or break a jam.
~8:04 AM - Turn on the computer. While that is going on, I proceed to cut up and begin cooking some deer meat I thawed and seasoned last night. A note about the deer: Two weeks ago, on the way home, a lady hits a deer on the road just ahead of us. It was the third she's hit, and didn't want the deer... my brothers and I did. As of now, we have about 12 pounds of meat in the freezer.
~8:23 AM - check emails, youtube, Todd Parrott clips, and the MBH Forum while the meat is cooking.
~9:01 AM - Start eating deer meat while surfing the web, and listeing to Rachele Plas
~9:19 AM - started writing this OT post
~9:29 AM - finish this post and ask if anyone else ever has mornings like this? Welcome to Northeast Arkansas.
~9:39 AM - read through it and quickly check for un-edjumacated typographical errors.
By the way Adam, we may be rednecks, but Old McDonald's farm is in Mississippi! Thanks for a great site, the awesome videos, and for being a down-to-earth guy.
Peace everyone!
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-- "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts" -- C.S. Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/user/gadwagon/videos
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tookatooka
2977 posts
Jun 27, 2012
8:33 AM
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You seem to be living the dream Gad. Sounds like you won life's lottery. Good for you, make the most of it.
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gad wagon
17 posts
Jun 27, 2012
8:49 AM
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It'll last until Friday... then back to school.
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-- "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts" -- C.S. Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/user/gadwagon/videos
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Moon Cat
87 posts
Jun 27, 2012
10:10 AM
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That was beautiful thank you.
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tookatooka
2978 posts
Jun 27, 2012
10:27 AM
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Hey Gad! Anywhere near here? http://goo.gl/maps/woC6
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billy_shines
603 posts
Jun 27, 2012
10:30 AM
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ok americans can just turn around and go home. but a pilgrimage to mississippi could be very expensive for euro and asian blues fans. this is what mississippi really looks like.
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/category/location/ms/
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MP
2319 posts
Jun 27, 2012
2:30 PM
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Now that is called living! great post gad wagon!
"Two weeks ago, on the way home, a lady hits a deer on the road just ahead of us. It was the third she's hit,"
Funny! When i was on the east coast the following occured one winter.
two friends hit three deer with two cars.
the score: three dead deer and one dead car.
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harmonicanick
1643 posts
Jun 27, 2012
2:46 PM
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Sick thread..
@gad wagon
I hope you let the oppossum go??
You should be ashamed:(
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KC69
233 posts
Jun 27, 2012
3:03 PM
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Its a sick world and I'm a happy man ! I hope you eat the opossum like we would in the sticks of Ohio. Good Luck at school Steve. God is Great!!!
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And I Thank You !!
KCz
Backwoodz
Bluz
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mandowhacker
161 posts
Jun 27, 2012
3:20 PM
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I've been thru NE AR quite a few times. I like it a lot. I spent a day in Jonesboro quite awhile ago while the ol' Mack got fixed. From there north to Missouri is great country.
Seems like one of those places when you lock your truck up one time a year-------zucchini season. Leave it unlocked and the neighbours fill the dang thing up with squash. As if you don't have enough of your own to give away.
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Just when I got a paddle, they added more water to the creek.
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gad wagon
19 posts
Jun 27, 2012
9:18 PM
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@ tookatooka - I live about an hour and 45 minutes from there. I live in the great town of Wynne Arkansas.
@billyshines - We got a Walmart Supercenter when I was in highschool, about 2002, and to this day, it is one of my favorite places to go. Thanks for the link!
@harmonicanick - As a matter of fact, I DID let the oppossum go. My mom wanted me to kill it (they eat the dog food and harass the cats) My uncle told me to either: dump it in a neighbors field, to put it in my aunts garage, or put it in someone's mailbox
@KC - thanks for the encouraging words... in this sick world! Arkansas is God's country, and the first American state listed in the Bible... In the flood, Noah looked out the Ark-and-saw that the waters were receeding....
@mandowhacker - I live just 45 minutes south of Jonesboro. Nice little town.
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-- "The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts" -- C.S. Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/user/gadwagon/videos
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nacoran
5898 posts
Jun 28, 2012
2:23 PM
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MP, my brother's count is two dead deer with two cars, one of which ended up dead too. He's also hit a guard rail, a Taco Bell drive-thru, and a parked snow plow. The second deer almost ended up being a real doozy. It was Christmas Eve and my brother was driving up to our mom's place. I was already there when he called and told us he'd hit a deer and that his car was wrecked about 10 minutes from mom's place. He was fine but he needed a ride the rest of the way, so I through on some shoes and headed out. It was snowing, and the dark, and slick. As I approached eastbound I saw the police car on the westbound lane, and thought I could make out my brother's car in the driveway of the nearby house (he'd told me he was parked there). It's a long stretch of Rt. 20 in Upstate NY where the houses are spread out like you expect to see in farm country. I was having a hard time seeing much of anything though, because the police car had it's lights on. I started to pull off on the eastbound shoulder and slow down. Suddenly, through the dazzle of the headlights I made out a shape ahead of me... the cop had pulled the dead deer off onto the shoulder! I slammed on my breaks and slid through the snow. I managed to stop less than 2 ft. from hitting it. How would that have been for a X-Mas present? One deer taking out both brothers' cars?
(The deer did not have a red nose, by the way.)
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