The Holidays vs. Blogging: A Temporary Hitch in My Get Along

The Holidays vs. Blogging: A Temporary Hitch in My Get AlongIt’s 9 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning and after brewing up a cup of Joe and stepping outside for a bit, I thought I would steal a bit of time before the Thanksgiving feast and blog a few lines!

The sun is already warm and it is shaping up to be a perfect, sunny day with a predicted high of 82 degrees. This is the weather we live for every year. Here in the desert southwest (Arizona), it’s when we come alive. The blazing century mark temps of summer are behind us and now there is much to be done and enjoyed outdoors.

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Oh no! We’re Going to Starve: The Deer Hunt Continues

Oh No! We're Going to StarveIt was only 11 in the morning and already the sun was hot.

I didn’t want to leave the cool canopy of the oaks on the wash.

But I had already pushed my luck to the limit.

It was time to get back to the task at hand–glassing the hills for those all-too-elusive deer.

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Guess Who’s Coming to Thanksgiving Dinner?

Abraham Lincoln on November 8, 1863

Abraham Lincoln–Nov. 8, 1863-One month after his Thanksgiving Proclamation and a little more than a week before he gave the Gettysburg Address

It was the month of October 1863.

A silvery Indian Summer haze drifted over the White House as the leaves on the trees, starved of summer’s extended light, were beginning to turn vibrant shades of red, orange, and yellow.

And the American Civil War was raging.

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