Tonight I am driving down to Sarasota to meet some dear friends. I have met one already, it is none other that Michael Rodgers, the mayor of OS in my humble view. He is on temporary leave of absence due to some schoolin' ideas he is dealing with. He best hurry up… Read full post »

Last night was one them long nights spent tossing and turning on sweaty sheets even tho' I was tired as can be. And being tired from my set of aches and pains will be guaranteed to make me do one thing.

Cuss 

I have gave myself an award. I have Severe Potty Mouth.… Read full post »

Waking up was easy. Laying there and not waking my sister sleeping beside me was harder. She snored that morning like a skipping tractor motor. So I crawled over the foot of the bed and ran to the window.  A thin little moon hung down, barely enough to see thru the… Read full post »

The was a old style general store across the river from me when I was in my twenties and married the first time. It was ran by a grizzled old man named C.D. Goswick and his older sister. It was what was left of an old farming community  long since left behind in… Read full post »

My Dad was always a man to make a buck or two, anyway he could. With a total of eight kids he actually claimed as his living in the old house, he needed the dollars. Cash money, he called it.

He had a great love of hunting dogs. He bred, trained,… Read full post »

Evie just could not stop. She kept right on crying. Why did her family not understand how hard this was? How could she explain the pain here? Having the fart windbag she called her husband of so many long years did not help since he was on the wrong side of… Read full post »

My parents both worked during the day when I was a child. I was the youngest at the time of seven kids. The house I lived in was one of those white frame farm houses, two story and on a small rise surrounded by old Oak trees. We had all the… Read full post »

Yesterday I saw a brief rainbow across the clouds during the light rain. It only lasted a brief moment then faded away. I was out walking Mission, trying hard not to think much.

If my elderly great aunt would have seen it she would have said it was a sign.

Signs.

Growing up… Read full post »

There is nothing like having the current economic crisis reach out and touch you personally. Nothin'!!

I draw a disability check from the government of Canada. It is called CCP. It is not much but my only income.

It comes in US dollars drawn on a checking account Canada has… Read full post »

 

I saw this Muscovey duck and the chicks walking down the street yesterday around noon. It was freezing cold here in Florida, and somehow it seemed so odd to me.

It's January, and here is a duck with new chicks walking down towards the canal at the curve in the… Read full post »

 

I sit here often in these chairs. I look at the street and my neighbors. I met a family across the way when I first moved in. They had three small tots, two in diapers that always sagged, and an older girl chasing the tots on the big wheels. The… Read full post »

The new year is here. Hallelujah!

The new decade is here. Good riddance to bad times.

So many here writing lists.

Lists of everything.

Resolutions for the next year.

Their top 10 whatever's.

Does anyone out there take time to just have a Be Still Moment?

That's what I call it.… Read full post »

The history of living in Appalachia includes many different ways to make cold hard cash. Cash was hard to come by.

The fur trade is a good example. My family spent years trapping, including me. Yes, leg hold traps. Metal jaws attached at a metal stake drove deep in the ground.… Read full post »

The New Year's loom

The darkest days are past

I face the new decade

Back agin' yesterday's gloom

Seeing the white light fast

Gettin' free

Gettin' free

Gettin' free to face the life

That's ahead of me!

I can leave in an hour

So few things have I

Pack? why bother… Read full post »

I went to the beach today at De Soto Park below St Petersburg. My feet were heavy and I needed to lighten them up a tad. This scene is looking down the dog beach. I took Mission with me of course.

  

She liked the ocean till she got splashed by a… Read full post »

 

I went for a walk today in the warm Florida sun. I put my Blue Tick hound on her lease and went for a long easy walk lost in thought. The bright sun bounced off the 'For Sale' signs swinging in the breezes. Half the bleached out pastel houses are… Read full post »

Stars shine bright

Cool breeze night

Palm fronds restless

Shadow dance stillness

Black fades grey

black fades grey

Salt swamp smells

Feral cats yells

Coons rattle trash

Yellow eyes flash

Black fades grey

black fades grey

Distant seagull flies

Waking baby cries

Waves smack sand

Open doors stand

Black… Read full post »

I just met Anna (not her name at her request) again at a day labor office were they are not hiring. I have saw her at various  places around here like the church mission and the library. I heard her hillbilly accent and began asking her where she was from. She,… Read full post »

I am at the local library. I have one hour. I am exhausted from walking. My feet hurt in the worse way. No job in sight. No future shining bright. I feel dim and lost in worry and my past seems lost in a fog I can no longer remember anymore.… Read full post »

I see this recession tagged as 'The Greatest recession'. Living here in the urban area of St Petersburg, I certainly understand. I see the results here everywhere as I walk the streets looking for work. I see the ragged shirts with the grimy frayed cuffs. I smell the odor of unwashed… Read full post »

Life in Florida means meeting many retirees. I have met so many in my few short weeks here. Bankers, lawyers, teachers, auto workers. They come from all parts of the country and overseas. I talk to them and they tell me how many years they worked, and where and when. They… Read full post »

Jus' a hillbilly a wandering

Fleein' the worst Recession

Lookin' like the Great Depression

Tales told

From the Folk

Not so long ago

I have left the Georgia mountains and moved to the Clearwater/St Peterburg area. I decided if starvation was imminent, I prefer warm to cold!!! I am not truly staving./…

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Walk Gently

Step lightly

Speak softly

Move slowly

Spread kindness

Show no anger

Small flowers

you passed me often

 

thru life

I sat unnoticed

As you made you way

more important things for you

small flower… Read full post »