Alabama Eight-Year-Old Is A Best Selling Author
Here is an inspiring~"I learned to follow my own dreams"~child's tale from me dino's neck of the woods.
Here's further information about the article~
Hoover is the ritziest satellite city of Birmingham where I generally go to buy the good stuff albeit PC related products, Big & Tall clothes, guns, the best indoor shooting range, the best mall, the best book store, the best Chinese deli, etc
I get Yerllowhammer with four or five articles in my email every day.
The yellowhammer woodpecker is Alabama's state bird.
Yellowhammer is even mentioned in the Crimson Tide's infamous nyah we beat you taunt chant.
Even during the short time it was banned, the fans sang it anyway. I was in the stands the first time that happened.
Coaches of the opposing team (can't recall which 20 or so years ago) turned around and gawked up at us as if saying, "How dare you?"
http://gridironnow.com/alabamas-ramme....
Here's further information about the article~
Hoover is the ritziest satellite city of Birmingham where I generally go to buy the good stuff albeit PC related products, Big & Tall clothes, guns, the best indoor shooting range, the best mall, the best book store, the best Chinese deli, etc
I get Yerllowhammer with four or five articles in my email every day.
The yellowhammer woodpecker is Alabama's state bird.
Yellowhammer is even mentioned in the Crimson Tide's infamous nyah we beat you taunt chant.
Even during the short time it was banned, the fans sang it anyway. I was in the stands the first time that happened.
Coaches of the opposing team (can't recall which 20 or so years ago) turned around and gawked up at us as if saying, "How dare you?"
http://gridironnow.com/alabamas-ramme....
(Sorry, I can't help it, it's a compulsion.)
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...
Rather pay a consumption tax rather than suffer this deliberately made hard to do bother.
Once I tried the Liberty Tax Service. They made a $1,000 mistake. I got the State of Alabama to cough it back up a year and a half later.
It is almost the Twilight Zone time where I live with the sun going down. .
Speaking of inspired. We all would love to read old Dino's fiction . I can't wait to have the Yellowhammer publish news of "Chasing little Red" and of the perils and revenge of Babette.
I don't know if the Northern flicker or yellowhammer makes its way to Minnesota ,but it does look familiar. The coolest woodpecker I have seen in the back yard is a Pileated woodpecker.https://g.co/kgs/n5KLX3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norther...
Hope I live to finish that novel.
It's 12:37 AM, which means I turned 70 yesterday.
Tick! Tick! Tick!
But I started a novel 22 years ago. Last year during a slow period, I picked it up again and made major huge progress and it is 98% done. It would make a great movie (it subtley reprograms environmentalists back to reality). And now I have no time. Part of it is that it is a momentum thing. You can't just dabble at it.
Today I'm spending time on taxes. ) - :
I tend towards the Ernest Hemingway approach and have a glass (bottle) of wine on hand to aid the inspirational process.
I'm also a sangria lover and I write at night.
Sleep well too for some reason. .
I can't play at that should I write longer.
And I'm thinking I really need too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Be...
Sometimes I wonder that because I was born at 9:00 PM that the late evening has a special affinity for me. Probably not. It's just one of the best times of the day...er night.
My "great American novel" is set in Aug 23-24, 1914 Belgium and the citizens of Dinant (where over 600 of them were massacred) may appreciate it for tourism purposes.
Oh, take a look at Dinant. Breathtaking! The saxophone was invented there, That's why it's superimposed over a couple of photos.
https://www.google.com/search?q=dinan...
Babette rides her horse through lots of hilly country in Walloonia where the Walloons speak a different kinda accented French (kinda like Cajuns) do but claim not to be French but more related to Romans who once conquered the area. That's hard to believe since Walloonia runs up against the French border. North Belgium is Flemish.
http://www.pommietravels.com/dinant-b...
They reminds me of the snoopy sculptures in St. Paul years ago to honor native Charles Schultz.
https://www.johnweeks.com/tour/peanut...
It's been at least a couple of years since I looked up photographic memory.
Endemic being an actual word does not trigger the spell checker.
It does not like the name, Babette, though..
You helped me out. Thank you.
Babette is on top of one of those cliffs you can see overlooking Dinant when the massacre occurs.
She's using field glasses she conned from a boche biker while claiming to be the daughter of a German ambassador previously caught behind the lines.
Her photographic memory has a knack for picking up foreign languages. Should I ever make it to sequels she's going to be a spy at least for a while.
Later she may come to America as a bootlegger.
I even have her heroic death in Nazi Germany worked out.
Perchance all this the stuff dreams are made of.
I believe it is a second grade teacher who wearily stands with her students running amuck all around her and talks about how important her vacations are.
From this morning.
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
What that school is like today, I'm not sure. I have heard that it has fallen prey somewhat to Snowflake Liberal thinking...too bad.
A mere lad. Well, a full-grown lad with experience. Tick tick indeed, but you realize, we start dying the moment we're born. The problem with life is that there are few instructions for the young, and as an adult you've usually screwed up so badly that it takes years to get straight.
I have imagined myself marching in a skirmish line with a musket dressed up like a soldier on parade way back when.
Enemy muskets are shooting as we advance.
Thump! Another one bites the dirt. Heart attack. Guy couldn't quit smoking. Dennis Brown
You never know who is next.
Thump! Another one bites the dirt. Drunk driver head-on kills a nice guy. Corrections Officer King just wanted to drive to work.
Will the next one be me?
Thump! Another one bites the dirt. Officer Donaldson was the only one killed at that prison. He relieved me and then died.
Zing! Thought I was a goner there once on another post. Nyah! You missed me!
Thump! Another one bites the dust. Crazy Betty my age was only eating peaches yet choked to death.
Thump! Another one bites the dirt. Heart attack.
Well, Mashburn was a--no, no don't speak ill of the dead.
And that ain't all of them.
Zing! X 7 times when I could have been dead. Nyah! Nyah! You missed me!
The reason? A granddaughter was diagnosed with the flu on my birthday.
It just hit me writing this. I should send her a get well card. Not in person, though.
Take a few moments to think of your top ten birthdays moments and share if you would.
Can't think of ten birthdays that were all that over the top special.
I had a birthday when attending the academy for the Alabama Department of Corrections in Selma back in 1982. On that day my class rode a school bus with our instructors to tour Kilby Prison at Montgomery and I was telling everybody this was my birthday present.
During my 21-year career, I got to take over 10 of my birthdays off. Most state workers get state holidays off. Not so at prisons. At prisons you work a holiday and then put in paperwork to take that day off. Saint Patrick's Day ain't a state holiday but who wants to work on his birthday? The state of Alabama ain't all that into Saint Patrick's day~so putting in to get my same day birthday off was pretty easy-peasy.
By 1985 I realized that I really hated to work a prison in the Summer heat. So I saved up my holiday time and combined it with my vacation time to take almost the entire month of August off.
After I successfully pulled that stunt, the warden put out a memo that corrections officers could only have two week vacations period.
I was all like "Aw, c'mon! What difference does it make?"
October. St Paul always has had a big Birthday parade for you and the Sinclair gas station sported a green Dino with a shamrock.
There was a peculiar year during the 90s when I was mostly working the back gate tower (few trusted with that post) that June was actually hotter than the rest of that Summer.
As for that particular August I almost all of took off, I spent some of it at a family reunion at that lake you and I are familiar with.
Happy Natal Day. The most important thing?
Be healthy. Go get 'em Dino.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nata...
One thing I love about The Gulch. I keep learning stuff.