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Banjo Man
Glen the Banjo Man
the big skipper
Here is Banjo Man, looking for perfect skipping rocks. Now that the lake has gone down so much he has a lot to choose from.
His rock-skipping skills have never been rivaled. He is the World Champion, at least here on this beach.
Here he is, pondering which rock will bring him fame and fortune in 2015. I think he’s planning to hide the best ones for next summer.
Just to drive his sons and nephews crazy.
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it’s a miracle
I’d never heard of this product until last month, when I had a burn on the base of my thumb. It wasn’t a bad burn, not even anything to run cold water over or say “ouch”. But my arthritic thumb had its usual issues with cleaning and guitar-playing and overusing the computer mouse, so it swelled up. And kept swelling. The once-little burn couldn’t heal and kept getting bigger and uglier.
Retired Mountain Lady said she had the perfect product and gave me two of these pads, which I cut into smaller pieces, put over my burn and covered with band aids.
It healed almost instantly!!!
You can use it on blisters, on cracked fingers and toes…and burns!
Everyone in the family is getting a box in their Christmas stocking this year.
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blood moon
Nebraska Jack is in town, and he took us all to dinner last night. Here’s the view from the restaurant.
We don’t see the moon from the house. It’s behind us, so unless we’re driving along the road on the other side of the bay, the moon’s brilliance doesn’t make us go “ooh” and “ahh”.
Except for last night.
We had a clear view. And we were very impressed.
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how low can it go
It’s the time of year when the lake’s levels are lowered. It’s a slow process, but another sign that winter is coming and summer is over.
So I have a wider beach…and more places to hunt for arrowheads on my daily walk along the water’s edge.
Yesterday I found an exciting piece of obsidian–either a broken arrowhead or a giant “flake”.
Check it out:
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pulling over on the side of the road…
…to take these pictures:
I was on my way to the Big City to pick up Banjo Man at the airport Tuesday evening. That afternoon we’d had wind and rain and hail…and then a rainbow.
I had to pull off the road four times to take pictures.
I am so in love with this view.
Every day the news from around the world and in America gets worse and worse…crazier and crazier…and not much makes sense.
And then there are skies like this.
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story man’s stories
You all know Story Man.
Yeah, the guy with the fish.
Last March one of his screenplays won Best Nebraska screenplay at the Omaha Film Festival.
And now another script, a Western period piece (Story Man loves his western history!) is a quarter-finalist in Final Draft’s Big Break screenwriting competition.
Amid 7000 entries.
How cool is that????!!!!!
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happy birthday, retired mountain lady!
Keep rockin’, lady! It looks good on you!
i call it waldo
There is an arrowhead in this photo.
I saw it in the photo 20 hours after taking the picture and I have spent quite a bit of time down on the beach trying to find it. Which, of course, is practically impossible. The lake goes down every day, the deer walk on the beach, the waves continue to shift the rocks….
And the fact that it was right there, under my nose, while I was taking arty wave pictures, continues to make me crazy.
Really, really crazy.
Maybe someday it will turn up again.
Here’s an enlargement.
And here’s the beach.
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