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There is a little place in Cottonwood, Arizona called Hobo Joe’s Coffee Shop. 660 E Mingus Ave. My dad, Marty and H.o.p. and I were pointed to Hobo Joe’s by my mother who had never actually eaten there.

I ordered the green chili omelette with cheddar and hash browns and biscuit. “Good choice,” said [...]

For the hell of it. Has nothing to do with Stone bridge (the blog) but saw this water tower somewhere just outside Memphis, was reminded of Stonebridge (the blog), and thought hey why not grab a pic of the tower as we went whizzing on by. Just barely got the shot. [...]

We’re back and our fish are still alive. My husband’s father has been battling ALS the past five years and landed in the hospital a couple of weeks before we were to set out on a long-planned vacation to the Ioway Fall Encampment in Kansas and then down to see my mother in Cottonwood [...]

Circumstances have it where I likely won’t be blogging for the rest of September. Toodles.

Since Hurricane Katrina I’ve returned several times to look at the Pentagon’s study, published 2003, “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security”.
The paragrphs I’ve been drawn to are the following:
Steven LeBlanc, Harvard archaeologist and author of a new book called Carrying Capacity, describes the relationship between carrying capacity and [...]

I subscribe to Robert Krampf’s Experiment of the Week newsletter. Today Experiment #442 Melting Ice was the offering. H.o.p. is game for anything to do with water and ice. Perfect.
We were instructed to put an ice cube in boiling water and hold one under a stream of cold water. The question [...]

The Rev. Mykeru’s Freedom Walk Video, Wherein your humble minister infiltrates the heart of thickness looking for recruits. Boys and girls didn’t flock to respond to Operation Yellow Elephant’s call for enlistee’s to fight their war.

With a nod to Dharma Bums who got me started thinking about it. Rexroth’s Daughter wrote a beautiful post on the how and why she is a collector of handshakes and her passion for it is a beautiful one unsullied by dropping-name ambitions, each handshake opening to the worlds of those others [...]

The man who told Cheney to go fuck himself is Dr. Ben Marble.

How do you follow up awarding a few Katrina clean-up contracts to Halliburton?
How do you follow up the “look at us flower with compassion” $2000 debit card for affected households announcement? The “We’re just beginning to help you!” song and dance. How many times has this been said? “We’re just beginning to [...]