Tag: family
member name: Len Maxwell
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December 03, 2009 12:36 PM EST --
Prompt: Create a holiday newsletter based on fact or fiction, but keep humor as your underlying theme.
Hi everyone,
Sammy and Tammy bringing you this year’s Christmas . . .
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December 15, 2009 04:50 PM EST --
Pirates with eye patches. Buried treasure. Maps where X marks the spot. Nearly every pirate was said to have a treasure map showing where he had hidden his plunder. You can pretend you have managed . . .
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May 26, 2009 08:59 PM EDT --
It's a neat concept that gets arguments for and against. Do I believe in love at first sight? Absolutely! I've seen it twice. The first time was when I met my last wife and fell in love in just seconds. . . .
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August 11, 2009 02:12 PM EDT --
[As a freelancer I’m always looking for the highest-paying market for my work. Every year, however, I offer the following article free to various parenting magazines and journals as well as newspapers. . . .
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November 22, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
Before I get into it, let me point out a few things. First, this is another of my trip reports, this one from a couple years back, that I'm posting for a wider audience than originally intended. Then, . . .
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November 25, 2007 06:29 PM EST --
Once again I'm posting one of my (in)famous trip reports. Just a couple weeks after our last Mojave trip we went back out there for a couple more days of fun.
For those of you not familiar with . . .
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May 23, 2009 06:30 PM EDT --
There are frequent e-mails showing pictures from the "old days" with a simple blurb asking if you remember such a thing. I have had some younger folks ask me what some of those statements meant and whether . . .
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October 03, 2009 07:44 PM EDT --
To all my friends,
In my freewrite " Take Dad to Work Day " I mentioned my son, Greg. He finally got around to joining Gather and even made a comment on that post regarding men’s emotions (which . . .
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January 21, 2009 05:35 PM EST --
Grandpa Webb (Deloss Maitland Webb) was a real cowboy. Born 24 Sep 1882 in Umatilla, Oregon, he had herded and driven cattle off and on for nearly fifty years. Not just a cowboy, he was a welder and a . . .
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February 17, 2009 11:25 AM EST --
Consider how we do laundry today. Open the washer, dump in a bunch of dirty stuff, throw in some detergent, set the controls, turn it on, and forget about it. When they're done, we take them out, . . .
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September 24, 2009 11:17 AM EDT --
Every couple of months a hobo named Joe came through town. He would offer to clean the barn or hoe the garden in return for a meal and my grandparents always gave him something to eat. Somehow, he always . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:54 PM EST --
I’m lost, I siad I ‘d do this, but I have no idea where to go. Guess it’s going to be blabbering. There’s something wrong, I ordered a new MC flag because my old one started ripping . . .
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August 18, 2007 06:59 PM EDT --
Every time Greg (son) and I go camping I write up a report of it after I get back. This is the first such trip report I've posted. In the past I've just sent them as e-mail attachments to . . .
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October 27, 2007 10:34 AM EDT --
The cowardly desert critter attacked in the middle of the night while I was asleep and helpless.
In my trip report about Adelanto I mentioned that Greg and I have yet to have a single campout without . . .
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November 06, 2007 06:06 PM EST --
Up the road a couple miles and take the turnoff for Artist’s Pallette. We pull in, park, and find that the sign is gone. Whether some jerk knocked it over or whether the maintenance crew took it . . .
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November 15, 2007 09:31 AM EST --
Up the road about five miles, hang a left, and we’re looking for the Devil’s Cornfield. There’s no sign, but Greg points to the left and says that’s it. There’s a lot of . . .
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November 11, 2007 11:45 AM EST --
Long story short - I was sitting at the table, got light-headed, and the next thing I knew Greg was pouring water over my head - I had passed out from heat exhaustion. See, you need a buddy. I don't . . .
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May 24, 2009 01:48 PM EDT --
I never really thought about the outhouse until the winter of 1953. It was a regular part of farm life and was just -- there.
I lived with my parents in Southern California and went to Oregon . . .
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December 19, 2005 09:23 PM EST --
"Mom! She's doing it again," yelled Sandy.
June, Sandy's mother, ran into the living room from the kitchen. Seven-year old Sarah was lying on the living room floor gasping for air.
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August 19, 2007 12:08 PM EDT --
While most of my trip reports are stand-alone stories, this is a follow-up to the California to Washington story. And, thanks, Al, of course there was another one because you knew about it.
9/21/05
Okay, . . .
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