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Fruit & Veggies

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Cleaning up my act for 2019 (in baby steps).

They have a great permanent produce stand here in New Smyrna Beach.

Son Of A Beach

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2,800 miles through snow, ice, wind, and traffic to get here. I wish I enjoyed the desert SW as much as the Florida coast since it is so much closer. But alas, I am a hopeless son of a beach (or so I am told).

It Is Cold And My Snow Shovel Is Broken

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A Craftsman “designer” duffel bag full of summer clothes, beach chairs, an iPod, sandals, Ray-Bans, sunscreen, Thomas McGuane’s The Longest Silence: A Life In Fishing, and a bottle of “bottom shelf” rum (just in case the book is no good). Fully accessorized.

Turning off the lights and heading south.

Merry Christmas to all!

Winter Solstice Soon

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3:45 in the afternoon—one day shy of winter solstice—and it almost looks like sunset.

This is a capture from the webcam of The Raven Bar across the lake.

Broke Ground

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Since I have recently reclassified myself as semi-retired (from my painting day-job anyway), I have devoted most of the newly “freed up” time to writing. This helps keep me out of the poolhalls and saloons and, frankly, I do not see true retirement in the cards anyway. As Warren Zevon stated in song, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” But in truth, I have been fortunate to have had my hobbies and vocations as one-in-the-same, so I really have nothing to retire from anyway.

My pensive writer’s face.

Besides, my momma didn’t raise no slacker. My first book, Searching for Alpha Centauri in a ’64 Chevy, has already been published. The second, Sometimes It Feels Like Far, is well underway with its rough draft recently completed. I hope to have it available by December 2019. And I have just created the outline for my third book, The Improbable Sea Dogs of St. Croix North. I consider this a personal milestone of sorts since this is akin to having poured the concrete footings from which I will build. So I have “broke ground” on book #3, so to speak.