The last post didn't elicit the response I expected so here's something a little different. How about a shot of a lamprey eel taken a little while back during a visit to the Shedd Aquarium? Quite a neat place, a lot different than the last time I saw it more than sixty years ago. Even had a chance to pet the sting rays they have swimming around.
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My street address is: (REDACTED)
Oh, now you've done it Mr. Beagles! The hordes that follow this blog will, no doubt, be sending all kinds of unwanted stuff to your home address.
I liked that little Vietnam story of yours, sent me down another memory rabbit hole. After all these years I find it curious that so much of the military experience has stuck with me and that I am reminded of it so often. Every time I wash dishes after preparing a meal, all I can think of is the three days straight of KP during the time at the Reception Station. We were only supposed to get one day of that duty but our squad was the only one that was issued uniforms; quite a shortage during those heady days. I'll never forget the cooks yelling "Outside! Outside! Everybody outside!" when the trucks came to deliver food, which was often. Couple of hundred young guys could sure work up an appetite. Did you have two kinds of garbage cans, one for edible and the other for non-edible garbage? I think the mess sergeants had a clandestine deal with the local pig farmers, or maybe it was an official program, your government at work.
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Am I the only person who thinks Memorial Day should still be observed on the 30th?
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