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TOMORROW on the big green blog that recycles it’s the best of the best in blogging action from this past week via the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. Then on Saturday morning ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ returns to the neighbourhood for what could be an uncomfortably warm and sweaty walk.

Before the great chill arrives early this Sunday morning it could get rather toasty here in Homestead with overnight lows only in the mid-70s and daytime highs approaching the upper-80s !  Then get ready for more normal weather for mid-November in Homestead as mid-afternoon temperatures peak in the mid-70s and early-morning temperatures dip down into the cool and refreshing 50s !  The cooler and more normal weather should stick around for awhile too.

OK back to the blog. I’ll be serving up your ‘Saturday Night Retro’ in less than 48 hours, and I’m gonna share with you a final good-bye to an entire nation from exactly 21 years ago this weekend in 1987.

I’ve got all of that and a whole lot more for you during this upcoming weekend, so stick around my friends. You won’t regret it pal.

Until I come back on here with the ‘Blogroll Review’ enjoy this classic picture of my childhood cat Fluffy. Me and my brother found the Fluffmeister back in December 1983 when I was 16 and my brother was 8. This picture is from the late-1990s, and an aging Fluffy is sitting on the living room couch reading the local newspapers and watching her favourite television shows.

Fluffy The Manx Cat
Fluffy The Manx Cat
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The Major’s Walk-A-Thon

It’s the 2ND Season Premiere of your favourite Saturday morning series on the blogosphere !

1.  This morning at almost precisely 6 AM I awoke and I declared ‘I Want To Go To Denny’s !’ – and so I did a half an hour later. I enjoyed the Moons Over My Hammy®. Dude – It’s a ham and scrambled egg sandwich with Swiss and American cheese on grilled sourdough. It’s outrageous. SHYEAHZZZ !

2.  Once I got back home at 7:30 AM I decided that it would be the perfect time to kick-off ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ after a 6-month hiatus. The last time I walked around my neighbourhood of the past 13½-years was back on Saturday May 03RD 2008. Check out what I had to say back then.

Sky: Mostly Cloudy
Temperature: 69°F
Dewpoint: 64°F
Relative Humidity: 83%
Winds: ENE 7 MPH
Barometric Pressure: 30.17 Rising

3.  I’ve been waiting for weather like this since last April. It’s been a long hot Summer – a long hot Summer of not walking. Then again I’ve always wondered how much walking I actually do in a typical day during my Monday to Friday job at the air base. This morning I walked about 2 miles for 36 minutes and 35 seconds. I could’ve ended the walk shorter and earlier than that, but I was just having so much fun walking the walk while listening to my def tunes via my iPod Shuffle. I decided to keep on walking until I could actually feel a hint of mild pain in my legs. No Pain – No Gain !

4.  Cats adore me. One gray and white cat saw me and thought to himself – ‘He’s a friend of felines. I can walk right beside him with no fears and he won’t bother me.’ And so he did. That was on the south side of the MASSIVE lake that’s located within my neighbourhood. Later in the walk on the north side of the MASSIVE lake the cat greeted me again. He took the shortcut right alongside the lake. I took the scenic route following the roads.

5.  For the first time in ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ history I touched all of the roads. I walked them all – even the cul-de-sacs. This weekly walk is symbolic of my spiritual walk with my closest friends who are on this fantastic journey alongside me as we all follow and love Jesus Christ. I constantly thank my Lord and Saviour for giving me a second chance – a second Life to get it right this time. I shall continue to face toward and proceed into the daylight.

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Tuesday Night Grab Bag O’ Thoughts

1.  TODAY will go down in South Florida history as one of the coldest October days EVER !  We officially dropped down to 57°F at Homestead Air Reserve Base this morning, and we’ve been stuck in the 60s all day long. Tomorrow morning when we wake up we could have howling wind chills deep down into the 40s !

2.  Homestead was shivering (I love that phrase), and everywhere you looked you saw adults, children, and pets alike all bundled up in thick winter clothes that usually only see the light of day about a dozen days a year. Those people over there in the tee-shirts, shorts, and flip-flops ?  Those are what we like to refer to here in Homestead as ‘snowbirds’ – also known as Canadian tourists.

3.  My 7TH cold in 12 months is officially in the history books, or as I like to refer to as my very public history books – this blog. This cold seemed longer and harsher than a lot of the previous ones, so it was not my ‘Lucky 7TH Cold’. I’ll be flying back from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, so that’s only 32 more days until I get my 8TH cold in 13 months !

4.  Last Friday was Election Day in my living room. I voted via absentee ballot. I put it in the mail on Saturday morning. I just checked online with the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, and they have indeed received it as of this past Monday. One week from tonight we should find out who our next President Of The United States is. Whoever it is I will stand behind him and support him as he takes on a mountain of problems. I have very strong political views. They are so strong that I keep them to myself (most of the time) because they would offend and shock most people I know – including many of my close personal friends.

5.  Let me tell you something about a company by the name of ALLSOP with headquarters in Washington State, Ireland, and Shanghai China. I recently bought a ‘Metal Art CPU Caddy’ which is basically a little metal cart for my computer to fit in. The cart has 4 wheels, but one of the wheels was defective in that it was missing a bolt so I couldn’t attach it to the bottom of the cart. The cart was useless. I sent a short and simple E-Mail to the company on a Friday afternoon, and they sent me a personalized response back the following Monday morning. I replied to that response later that same day, and the next morning they shipped a replacement wheel to me via first class mail. I received it a few days later, and my CPU caddy is now in business fulfilling its mission !  In this modern era of widespread poor to non-existent customer service from retail companies I was totally ecstatic to discover a company that still does business the old-fashioned way no matter how big and universal they are. They cater to their customers who buy their products. You just don’t see that very much nowadays. THANKS ALLSOP !

Those are my thoughts for this Tuesday night. Thank You So Much for taking the time to read them.

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Homestead Cold Weather Alert

Get ready for the coldest air to penetrate through South Florida in over 6 months – since the late-season cold-snap of the 15TH, 16TH, and 17TH of April 2008. Remember that one ?

Cooler and drier air has already begun to slowly filter into the area from the north. The coldest of the cold air should arrive early on Tuesday morning with actual air temperatures around the Homestead–Florida City area down into the mid-50s and wind-chills approaching 50°F !

During the day on Tuesday we will struggle to get much above 70°F, and then early on Wednesday morning it could be even colder than Tuesday morning with actual air temperatures down into the low-50s and wind chills into the 40s !

Turn off the A.C. and bundle up Homestead !