GOOD MORNING FRIENDS I am saddened by this photograph, which was taken only a few years ago, as it was from the time when my face and complexion had not worsened to the condition it soon became, and thereafter my face was riddled with dermatological problems. Please don't protest that I look fine, because I do not. It is one reason I am as reclusive as I am. Okay, we will move on along for now. We all must whine a bit now and again. You know, there were once many "juke joints

GOOD MORNING FRIENDS Good Tuesday to one and all. It has rained all night here in the Canoochee-Garfield Metropolitan Area, Fifteen Mile Creek is flooded for at least its lower twenty mile stretch. Bumpy Creek's bumps have almost all washed away, and several ducks have drowned. We were afraid the school buses would not be able to traverse the local dirt roads but the Coast Guard sent patrol boats to check, and sonar showed the water had washed away all of the mud, so if all t

WADE IS PLAYING HOOKY I have a toothache. My left hand is constantly spasming with "trigger finger" condition, and I have had two aural/ocular/painless migraines. I will be taking a rest day. God bless and thanks.

Hello Friends I hope you are ready for a fine Friday, because, ready or not, here it comes. Somehow that phrase, "ready or not," made me think about something I had not thought of in a long, long time. That was the topic of the games we played outside as kids. I don't know if kids today have ever heard of such games, but we played them all, and did so often. Hide and seek, keep away, kick the can, and so many others, and the question of who would be "it." Yep, ready or not, h