Month: June 2008

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Food Humor Travel

Saturday Morning Shenanigans

SHENANIGANS FACTOID – It’s exactly 2.3 miles from my parking space at home to my parking space at the Cracker Barrel in Florida City (where all of the gas stations are food is).

This morning I walked in to the joint a few minutes after opening time at 6 AM. My longtime waittress of the past 35 5 years greeted me at my car the entrance to the restaurant portion, and she was thrilled totally ecstatic to see me. The feeling was mutual. She knows what I like to eat !

Based on Tammy’s suggestion alone I enjoyed the Wild Maine Blueberry Pancake Breakfast (with scrambled eggs with melted American cheese inside and also succulent smoked sausage). Are you paying attention Paul ?  This was truly one MASSIVE meal, and I’ll be recovering from it (in a good way) for the rest of the morning.

You know I never realized that wild blueberries grew rampant all throughout the great state of Maine. According to this educational web site courtesy of the University Of Maine the state has ‘60,000 acres of wild blueberries (that) grow naturally in fields and barrens that stretch from Downeast to the state’s southwest corner’. When I typed in ‘blueberries’ and ‘Maine’ within a Yahoo ! search engine box I got back the first 10 of some 932,000 results !  I also learned that Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberries in the entire world !  Maine sounds like a very delicious state to me ! 😀

And so these are my ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’ for this week. Thank you for allowing me to share them with you. Until we meet again please enjoy this interesting short film all about wild blueberries:

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Blogging Travel

Bedtime Stories

Hey kids it’s time for the 55TH edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’ – and the first in 16 days. A loyal and faithful fan of this blog called in to the blog’s toll-free hotline this afternoon – OK who are we kidding here – it was Ela !  Anyway she was inquiring as to why there were no more ‘Bedtime Stories’ on here. I explained to her that ‘Blatant Promotion’ was the new ‘Bedtime Stories’ for the summer. She stated that while ‘Blatant Promotion’ was fine and dandy she still wanted her ‘Bedtime Stories’ every so often. So back by popular Ela’s demand here we are with the Friday night edition of the ‘Bedtime Stories’. It’s brought to you by American Airlines – Doing What We Do Best !

I’m looking forward to going on vacation in just about a week from now. Next weekend my ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’ will occur at an altitude of approximately 35,000 feet as I fly from Miami International Aeropuerto (MIA) to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW). I’ll be in the Dallas area for less than a day, and then it’s on to San Antonio with my little brother. We’ll be living and playing on the River Walk for about 4 days.

As long as my brother has his laptop with him I’ll continue to blog at least one entry per day – at the very least to keep the current streak alive. This is the 210TH day in a row that I have posted a blog entry on here. I haven’t missed a single day since the Saturday after Thanksgiving when we had our soft opening here on WordPress. I’d hate to end that streak while on vacation. If anything I should have more time to blog, so I’ll see what I can do by the River.

I’ll be back on the big blog again tomorrow for some more fun, so be sure to hang out on here. I hope that each and every one of you has a safe and peaceful night tonight. Take good care of yourselves, get a lot of rest, and let’s all be refreshed again in the morning. Oh yeah – and remember this:

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Blogging People

Friday Night Blogroll Review

These – my friends – are my favourite blog entries of this past week from my favourite bloggers in the blogosphere:

With their A.C. on the blink Travis and Kelly slept on a mattress downstairs in the family room. It’s just like “Survivor”.

See the mattress for yourself.

Phil loves to go fishing. I don’t. I get seasick.

Jesse is extremely self-conscious about his hair (or lack of it).

Bill Finch is a ‘Guitar Hero’ who has a whole bunch of Guitar Heroes.

Luci presents her ‘Happy Friday’ Wild & Wacky Videos – Slip & Slide Edition !

Gricelda and her familia love to eat and shop all over Miami-Dade County !

Nathan, Harmony, and Owen have returned from their Southwest Florida vacation, and you can see selected pictures (mostly of Owen) here.

Chris and Janet Goins recently celebrated 25 years of wedded bliss !

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Blogging Food People

Blatant Promotion

We are less than 24 hours away from the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. It’s where I give back to my favourite bloggers in the blogosphere and highlight my favourite blogs of this past week. Look for it to drop here on the big blog tomorrow (Friday) before 5 PM EDT.

Then be sure to catch another zany madcap edition of the ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’. Last week I skipped out on a MASSIVE breakfast by shopping at Publix instead. This week I’m fully stocked on groceries, so I’ll be enjoying the mother of all meals big and small bright and early this Saturday morning somewhere in Florida City (where all of the food is). It’s how I roll all summer long in lieu of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ (which remains on hiatus for another 5 months or so).

Be sure to join the fun this Friday night and Saturday morning. You won’t regret it pal.

THANKS SO MUCH for reading and commenting. TODAY – Thursday June 19TH 2008 – was not only the busiest Thursday in history (drubbing the previous Thursday record by nearly 25%), but it was also the busiest day EVER – eclipsing the previous all-time record by nearly 7% ! 

THAT’S WHAT’S I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT !