On the road …again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Not All Modern Hotels Have Modern Architecture And Amenities One of the minor issues that travelers encounter when they move from city to city and hotel room to hotel room is that blissful period...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Colt .44 Bandanna For Suburban Cowboys Some thoughts for stories come out of dreams, and others come while mowing the lawn. After many years of evidentiary coincidence, it is time to conclude that; for the...
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On the road… again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Florida Gators vs. the Florida gators When he was a Grad Student at the University of Florida, the Footloose Forester witnessed the sudden development and equally sudden departure of a bizarre fad that...
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Ta le of Discovery Arial fonts are neat and tidy, like me; at the tender size of 28, or 26, on Heading 2; Heading 3 is still bold and brash but.... but when you change the font to A stodgy old Courier New in Size 18-- it doesn't...
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It is The Great Depression. It is rural Redland Township, Hempstead County, Arkansas. Crops have been planted and are coming up. They look promising. Cotton and corn. Soon word comes from the federal government of new programs of how to deal with the overabundance of crops...
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Joyce tells us about living in Peterborough in rural South Australia as a child and the upgrading of their external 'long drop'tiolet with a 'toilet pan'. The nightcart man was responsible for regularly picking up full pans and replacing them with empty pans. One day there was a mishap in the...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Confession Of A Practical Joker The text of the following spoof was culled from the black heart of a practical joker who calls himself the Footloose Forester. He sometimes risked official displeasure with...
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The Pear “There is a pear in the blue bowl for you to take for fruit time on your kindy trip to the Zoo today,” I told my four year old son. “Just get it and wait beside the car for me while I change your baby sister.” Ken’s big solemn...
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I have held many positions in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is the largest organizations there is in the world for women. I held the position of President of the Relief Society in our ward for approximately four years from 1969 to 1972. I was just...
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This probably falls under my common theme of TMI (Too much information) but it is what it is.. When I was 20, one work night my best friend Troy spent the night at my apartment. We were both getting ready in the morning and I was showering and he was making...
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I've been told over the years that I evidently have no "edit button". Which is sooo not true. I find myself editing my thoughts ALL the time, but evidently not enough. I've been told I am real, crazy, too funny, impatient, open, passionate, impulsive and even inappropriate. That said, I have...
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Several years ago, when my oldest son Aaron was going to college studying nursing, he and I were working on an automobile and we needed a part to finish up the job. I called one of the local wrecking yards and found that they had just the part that we needed. ...
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The date was July of 1978. I had graduated college 6 months earlier and got offered a job in Saudi Arabia. At the time the only thing I knew of the country was that it was somewhere in the middle east and I had seen the movie of Lawrence of Arabia. Nonetheless...
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In 1974 I was living in Provo, Utah and had the opportunity to have been ordained a Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the previous year. The Seventies Mission Bookstore was located on the block between First North and Second North and First West in Provo. Proceeds...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek You Are What You Eat Of all the expressions, clichés, maxims and apparent truisms, " you are what you eat" is one that the Footloose Forester never took seriously. In Army, Navy, Marine and Air Force...
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OUR INSPIRATION!!! Mom, Ty and I at Cape Canaveral, FL. Like a lot of young boys my Brother Tyler and I (Ages 15 and 12) were into rocketry. We usually were left alone for days on end to construct the model rockets and then accompanied by an adult when we...
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Mine was "Forest..er" green! Ha Here are a few of those lousy ramps! Now, after you read a number of my stories you will begin to get the idea that I might be a complete idiot when it comes to automotive projects. My Brother and Cousin Greg can almost...
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An '88 Jetta. Ours was dark navy blue! Oh, and a cruched front grill, bumper and light Back in ’88 My family lived in North Conway, N.H. It was January or February on that Saturday. My Dad had ordered a new car a few weeks before and today they called...
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT MEMORANDUM DATE: 1 April 92 REPLY TO ATTN OF: Dick Pellek, REDSO/ESA Natural Resources/Policy Advisor SUBJECT: ...
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On the road…again! Afghanistan to Zambia Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek Belly Laughs, Here and There Tis not certain that this chronicle will result in a contented memory, the kind that the Footloose Forester hopes to add to his collected assemblage of stories. Nonetheless, the...
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