THANK HEAVENS FOR EARL, THIS COULD HAVE TURNED OUT BADLY! Gosh, a biscuit outage can get folks riled up, knocked down, and old lady's step-ins in a bunch! Ole aunt Maude can 'member the bad, bad days when biscuits "was scase," or "plumb, not to be had'a'tall." She was a right young woman when that debble incarnate, sherman and his rabble trash come through wusser'n a swarm of locusts totin' burnin' lightered knots, whut they did not take, or kill, they defileded! They wuz not

A POSTCARD FROM GARFIELD Welcome to my world, the "Garfield-Canoochee Non-Metropolitan Area." Starting today, I am kicking off a new feature as we say goodbye to our faithful servant, "Rememberamble." No, no, Rememberamble is not dead, nor even ailing with anything, he has fallen in love with a "Canoocheehoochie gal," and they have done and run off to Florida, and are shacked-up at the old Swisher Sweets Motor Court near Tampa. Who would have ever thunk it!? Anyway, moving fo

THANK YOU LORD, FOR THE GIFT OF RAINS We have been blessed with repeated rains of late, and there is joy in it! Yes, joy in the rains. The forecast is for much more rain soon, we will be thankful for it. I am listening to our military jets overhead, we are usually in their flight path, and I love to hear them as they bank, turn, and maneuver in the skies. You know they are pulling some "G's," you can almost feel it along with them! While ago though, one jet did my favorite "t

HE'S NO SAILOR! HE'S A PROUD GAS STATION ATTENDANT! Buying gasoline was an entirely different experience when you and I were young. Today, full service gas stations have about completely faded away. New Jersey and Oregon until recently did not allow customers to pump their own gas. There are a smattering of diehard gas station owners here and there, but they are dinosaurs now, like Sinclair Oil's Dino mascot. Why a dinosaur as a symbol for a petroleum company? Because of the

HELLO FRIENDS! I hope this fine Friday feels full of fun, fellowship, fine food, and is not fraught with feelings of foreboding from any quarter. There we go, I like to toss out some Friday frivolity at first, before stalking and finding the serious stuff. I heard the term "yuppies," this week and only then realized how very long it has been since it was in common usage. Some words are high fashion items, and go out of style quickly, even as other, run-of-the-mill words soldi