Category: Barksdale
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So, It’s Time to Go
Insights on our time during COVID-19 inspired by the works of Dr. Seuss Finally!We’re off to see glaciersAnd sights we’ve not seenFor in-person experiencesNot TV nor magazine We have $2 buck gas in the tankAnd burning desire in our heartsWe’ll drive ourselves thousands of milesFor these new-to-us parts. We’ve made a choice that’s right for…
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How the halloumi are you?
As people who are always on the do, stationary life has forced new lows on us and our blog has suffered in the process. We’re convinced there’s nothing to write about and our lives are very boring but real writers would insist there’s always a story to tell or a situation to opine about, you…
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What’s Cookin’
Dr. Cox took full credit for the decision not to plate the broken fibula. He said he sees new bone growth over the past 6-7 weeks and was quite pleased with himself and his advice to Louisiana boot. The break actually happened on March 29 and by our count, that makes 3 weeks, but if…
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Lake Harmon-y
It’s been 20 days since Sheri broke her fibula, which was 20 days of nothing more than hobbling to and from the bathhouse, around the commissary and out to sit in a chair on the fishing pier. Now we’re wearing recyclable grocery bags on our faces. We used to be scared of people wearing masks…
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Trust me, I watched a how-to YouTube video.
On the seventh anniversary of our Cherry Blossom wedding on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC, we celebrated DIY – Louisiana style. Forget flowers and candy Copper and wool are the traditional gifts in this itchy year; desk stationery being the modern gift. At a balmy 95 degrees, wool was way-out and…
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Gimme a Break
We’re so used to writing about bikes, hikes parks and attractions that it’s hard to write about shelter-in-place life when no adventuring is going on in our tiny existence other than streaming the new season of Ozark! Time killers Last week we were getting into grilling, fishing, bike-mapping the base and playing tennis; doing 3/4…
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Buying the Bayou
When the April camping cancellation email hit the inbox telling us Big Bend National Park is closed til May 11 it was time for Buying the Bayou. Camping cancelled We’d put it off as long as we could, starting with a week, then adding another until we realized that the government was cancelling camping. We’d…
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Barksdale National Park
Barksdale Air Force Base is home to a fleet of B-52 Stratofortress bombers. These B-52’s that fly over our heads each afternoon entered service in 1961 (before we were born) proving age is just a number. A movie star in it’s youth, the B-52 starred in the 1964 Kubrick classic, Dr. Strangelove or, How I…
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Gimme Shelter
What does it mean to shelter in place when your place is 30 feet of RV continually moving across the country? COVID-19 made us answer that question. Sure, we knew about the Coronavirus when we departed Maryland, but the DOW JONES was pushing 30,000 and the country was business as usual. Somewhere between the Smoky…