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Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Monday, July 19, 2021
Sunday, July 18, 2021
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7.17.2021: Two more dead flies this week and I qualify as an “ACE.” Four more dead flies this week and I’ll be headed to Japan on the US Olympic Fly Swatting team. Wish me luck.
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Friday, July 16, 2021
Thursday, July 15, 2021
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
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7.13.2021: Instead of watching the MLB All-Star game tonight, I'll be viewing "The Sandlot" and imagining that I was playing with that amazing team.
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Monday, July 12, 2021
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7.11.2021: "8...9...10...ready or not, here I come!" Today I played Hide-N-Seek with a fawn. I don't mean to brag, but ... I kicked her butt in two straight games. #kennesawmountainnbp
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7.10.21: "May you touch dragonflies and stars, dance with fairies and talk to the moon."
– Unknown
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7.8.2021: I'm not man enough (or crazy or drunk enough) to "Run with the Bulls" ... but, I'll "Run with the Fawns" every chance I get.
#kennesawmountainnbp
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7.7.2021: Thanks to Carolyn, Mikel, Madi for another wonderful experience at Millstone Stables. This time, Aubree got to experience the fun including helping Madi squeegee off one of the horses.
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Thanks to Carolyn, Mikel, Madi for another wonderful experience at Millstone Stables. Big fun watching Madi training a horse to jump.
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7.3.2021: Composite photo of what we believe was the Kennesaw fireworks show. Taken from our neighborhood several miles away.
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7.2.2021: Can't decide between reading a good book or visiting Kennesaw Mountain? Why not do both at the same time?
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7.1.2021: “Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong.” – W.R. Purche
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6.30.2021: Forrest, freshly groomed for the first time since the removal of one of his kidneys. Thanks, Lorrie and the staff at The Dog House in Acworth. Forrest is strutting his stuff!
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6.26.2021: This weekend marks the 157th Anniversary of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain.
Sherman's troops bombarded the Confederate positions at nine o'clock on the morning of June 27, 1864 and then advanced along the base of Kennesaw Mountain. The Confederates easily repulsed this diversionary attack. Meanwhile, rough terrain and a stubborn defense stymied the Union assault at Pigeon Hill, which sputtered out after a couple of hours. At Cheatham Hill, the heaviest fighting occurred along a salient stretch in the Confederate line dubbed "Dead Angle" by Confederate defenders. Union troops made a desperate effort to storm the Confederate trenches. However, as elsewhere, the rough terrain and intense Confederate fire combined to defeat the Union army. Within hours, the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was over. Union casualties numbered some 3,000 men while the Confederates lost 1,000, making it one of the bloodiest single days in the campaign for Atlanta.
Also, 86 years ago today, on June 26, 1935, the United States Congress officially designated the area as Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
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6.25.2021: Okay, can anyone identify this creature I spotted at #kennesawmountainnbp today. Until I hear back, I will just call it "Scarybeehairybuttocks"
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UPDATE: Thanks to Brad Rivet, our creature has been identified as a Hummingbird Clearwing Hemaris thysbe. Which, of course, would have been my first guess.
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6.23.2021: The young bucks at #KennesawMountainNBP are usually a bit more skittish than the older does. However, today I noticed this dude grazing about 25-30 yards off the trail. He appeared to be heading my direction, so I didn’t make any quick moves (like at my age I could make any quick moves even if I wanted to.) It took about 10 minutes or so but he finally worked his way down to within’ five or six feet of me. After a couple of minutes grazing in front of me, he slowly walked away. Almost as slow as I walk when I’m hiking. (Which is pretty darn slow.) Neat experience, for sure.
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I wish I had a buck for every time a deer gave me the old "what the heck are you doing taking my photo" look while I was hiking in Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
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Monday, June 28, 2021
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6.21.2021:
"The world's a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We can sing a song and sail along the silver sky
For we can fly we can fly"
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6.20.2021: I vaguely remember my first car ride with my dad. Apparently, my mother told dad to take me along to work with him. If I close my eyes, I can still remember the roar of the car engine, and the squealing tires as I slid from one side of the car to the other in the back seat as we rounded curves at a high rate of speed. In the distance I could hear police sirens. To drown out the sirens, my dad turned up the radio and starting singing along to “That Good Old Mountain Dew.” Being the son of a bootlegger was never boring.
Okay, I don’t remember any of that at all, but when my dad told me that story, I believed him. Happy Father’s Day, dad. Wish you were still with us to spin another yarn or two. Love you!
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6.19.2021: Self portrait of how I look most days as I am leaving our home to hike Kennesaw Mountain.
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Friday, June 18, 2021
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6.17.2021: "They'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again." -- Terence Mann's soliloquy from the movie "Field of Dreams."
(Was at Truist Park catching the Braves win over the Cardinals 4-0. Charlie Morton had a no-hitter into the 7th inning. Since it's almost impossible to get my big boy camera into the park, I used my little compact camera to get this shot when the light was just right.)
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Wednesday, June 16, 2021
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6.16.2021: Saw this Ringneck Snake on the trail today at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park. About 12-14 inches long. Ringnecks mostly prey on species smaller than mice, including salamanders and newts, slugs, earthworms, some frogs and toads, and baby snakes. I don't know how it got it's name.
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6.15.2021: Didn't see anything really interesting while hiking today, but had that eerie feeling that I was being watched.
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6.14.2021: On May 30, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14. The day commemorates the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official flag of the United States.
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
Friday, June 11, 2021
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6.10.2021: Rumor has it that the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Rangers have trained bluebirds to help remind visitors about the entrance fee. Remember, these fees help improve park facilities and infrastructure and provide enhanced services. Also of importance, although not substantiated, those who attempt not to pay the fee may have some surprise “gifts” left on their vehicle windshields by the bluebirds.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2021
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6.9.2021:
Why I'm never allowed to visit Greece again.
1) Total disregard of historic artifacts.
2) Tasteless choice of pants.
(1973, Athens, Greece)
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021
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6.8.2021: Okay, I’m not going to lie. I had to work a bit to get this photo. Trying to get a youngster pose with mom for a family portrait is not easy. First the little lady ran into the woods when she spotted me. (Spotted. See what I did there?) Then, when she emerged from the trees, she just stared at me and didn’t get close to mom. Finally, when she caught up with mom, I had to do my “I’m not paying any attention to you” slow walk so that I could get in position for this shot without scaring them away. Luckily, they both struck a pose. Ten seconds later the little gal had jumped back into the forest.
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Sunday, June 6, 2021
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6.6.2021:
He can make you love
He can make you cry
He will bring you down
Then he'll get you high
Somethin' keeps him goin'
Miles and miles a day
To find another place to play
Night after night who treats you right
Baby, it's the guitar man
Who's on the radio
You go listen to the guitar man
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Friday, June 4, 2021
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6.4.2021: Remember how embarrassing it was, as a kid, when your mom would lick her thumb and then wipe something off your face. Well, it's worse if your mom is a deer because she doesn't have a thumb. So, she just licks your entire face.
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Thursday, June 3, 2021
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
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6.2.2021: Have you ever looked at an old photograph of yourself and thought to yourself, "I wonder whatever happened to that kid?" Or, in my case, "I wonder whatever happened to that hair?"
(1973: somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea.)
After looking at this photo I also thought, "Why did I ever buy that shirt?"
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021
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