Remembering Not

Work at the cafe this week has been the usual up and down. There will be rushes of customers for an hour or more when I look up and see a dozen or so orders. Just as soon as I get two finished, Robin replaces them with three more. There is no end in sight. [...]

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Ups and Downs in July

It has been a much different week than I may have surmised at the onset. The rains have given way to blistering humidity and temperatures far above the norm. It’s hotter than Tipper after she heard that Al had fondled a global warming junkie in an elevator. Perhaps the result of the humidity, maybe lingering [...]

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“Glamping”

Glamping: glamourous camping; combining the splendor of the great outdoors with the comfort of a top-tier hotel. I suffer from a disease called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). I’ve had this for as long as I’ve known. The symptoms are depression brought on by a lack of exposure to natural sunlight. This is blamed on the [...]

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Getting in Shape

My hiatus from posting here is not all my doing. The WiFi at our site has been down for four days. The Verizon wireless stick is to no avail here deep in the woods of Eastern Pennsylvania. It’s amazing to me. Reception was fine in the deserts and mountains of Arizona, the Badlands of the [...]

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Saluting the Red White and Blue

Work this week at the Gnome Cafe went well but wasn’t as busy as I had thought. I just figured we’d be inundated with customers given the fact that the campground was at maximum for this July 4th weekend. Nonetheless, it proved to be to my advantage. The chest cold I received from Robin turned [...]

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Cruising

Mid week went by pretty much uneventful. Robin was still down for the count so when Cathy and Russell invited me to tag along on a bike ride I jumped at the chance. They’ve been in the area for awhile so I figured they knew the backroads far better than I. They camped here for [...]

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