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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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Hoaxes Internet Travel Weather

Thursday Night Internet Hoax Hall-Of-Shame

Ice Wave in Lake Michigan

And they complain about global warming…………

Amazing pictures up around Sturgeon Bay. Wisconsin has had the coldest winter in decades. Water expands to freeze, and at Sturgeon Bay the water in Lake Michigan below the surface ice was super cooled. It expanded to break through the surface ice and froze into this incredible wave.

There have been pictures of this wave phenomena in Antarctica, but in Sturgeon Bay? It’s been quite a winter!

Frozen Wave ?

Frozen Wave ?

These are not frozen waves, and this is certainly not Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin !

Read more about it.

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Travel Weather

The Day We Got More Than A Half A Foot Of Rain In Homestead

This day – Wednesday June 18TH 2008 – will go down as one of the wettest days in modern day history as officially recorded at Homestead Air Reserve Base Florida.

As of 9 PM EDT an unprecedented 6.07 inches of rain had fallen since 12:01 AM. Nearly 4 inches alone fell between 2 PM and 4 PM this afternoon. An additional 2.40 inches of rain fell yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon, so that’s nearly 8½ inches of rain over the course of two days – most of it concentrated during the mid-afternoon hours. Ironically here in my own Homestead neighbourhood about 5 miles from the air base (as the crow flies) less than half that amount of rain has fallen; however, my neighbourhood is not an official weather reporting location. 😮

Remember the 3 FEET of rain over the next 3 months that I suggested for us in the ‘Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts’ ?  We’re about one-fourth of the way there !  We need every single last drop of it (and then some) to pull us out of this extended multi-year drought that we’re in – just not all of it at once !

This is how we roll in June here in South Florida.