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(Awright, who will get that reference without having to Google for it? 🙂

A few nights ago I was trying to snap a photo of Tammy and myself together.  Of the ten or so that I took none of them had Tammy looking at the camera!  She refused to cooperate any way at all.  I think it’s because she figures she has to be the star of everything and she doesn’t share her stage with anybody…

Anyway, here’s Tammy and her always-loving/more than occasionally exasperated owner:

miniature dachshunds, Tammy, dogs, Chris Knight

Here’s a hint: next week’s Tammy Tuesday features these same two characters in altogether different circumstances 🙂...

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A few days ago was the twenty-fifth anniversary of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. I’d thought of writing about that but you know, that’s one event in my life that I’ve shared my memories about a few times already. All these years later and my ears are still ringing with the pandemonium that erupted when Darth Vader betrayed the Emperor.

That’s already one of the fondest memories of my generation. But there’s something else about the present time, that to me is much more special and worth honoring here. Because it was twenty-five years ago this month that a life-long friendship began between me and Chad Austin.

It was actually a few years earlier that Chad and I had met, on our first day of kindergarten at Community Baptist School in Reidsville. We didn’t get to see much of each other though for the next ...

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Guess I couldn’t stop blogging after all 😛

Actually, I am still taking a break from “serious” blogging right now. It’s only when there’s been “cool” stuff to report on – like the Ron Paul and Ron Price Jack-o’-Lanterns – that I’ve broken in to post about, ‘cuz it wouldn’t make much sense to show you pictures of them in February, would it? And there’s nothing really wrong with doing that.

But the rest of my energies really are being focused on some other projects right now. That’s why you won’t be seeing any “heavy” essays from this end anytime soon. It’s all too easy to write about a pumpkin with Ron Price’s mug carved in it. Incidentally, last night we got a lot of trick-or-treaters who are in the Rockingham schools, and they both admired the work that went into the Ron Price Jack-o’-Lantern, and booed and hissed ...

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Sometime soon I’m going to take a break from blogging. Maybe a long one.

Yeah, I’ve walked away from the blog before (like when I gave up blogging for Lent last year). But this time it’s going to be different. I’ll no doubt do the Christmas post that’s become tradition for this site, but other than that – and unless something really serious happens – this is going to be a real sabbatical with no defined end, until I feel like I’m ready to return.

For over a year now I’ve been involved in one long continuous series of struggles. Some of those I’ve written about here, like the school board race. And giving hell to unscrupulous government officials and fighting schemes to impose school uniforms. There have also been a number of things that I haven’t written about here: situations that you can’t begin to imagine.

All this ...

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A few months ago it was “Chris as a South Park character”. Now today, after all of these years of dreaming and courtesy of The Simpsons Movie website, I am finally a character from The Simpsons! Looks pretty much like me, right down to that weird bit of hair on the right-hand side of my forehead that does its own thing without going one way or the other on the part (it’s not so pronounced just after a haircut but after a few weeks you really see it). My Simpsons avatar is also wearing denim jeans (my usual style) and dark brown shoes which are meant to be my hiking boots. Lisa thinks that brown and green are my best colors, so I colored “my” shirt brown. And since I’m somewhat of a “fight the status quo” sort, I put the upraised fist/sign of defiance on my ...

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