Animals
Cold summer so far in Alaska
Alaska is Cold this Year Different from when I was here last year Since arriving here in King Cove, I’ve been trying to walk as much as I can with my boys, Aaron and Jared. I try to do my routine walk here even it’s cold. It’s supposed to be summer weather here but the…
Read MoreOnce Upon A Time or this is no…
Day in and day out my friend Carlos who is in from Oregon for four months, and every day we walk the purok and say hello to our neighbors, all the kids give us our morning blessings (Or the Mano Po’s) a lot of the kids belong to my family so I’m Lolo daddy Paul,…
Read MoreI’m Goin’ To the Dogs
When my granddaughter was very young she was searching for a puppy, and her other set of overindulgent grandparents made sure she got what she wanted. My specialty of overindulgence lay in a different direction. But I was involved somewhat with the dogs. When she moved on to the next puppy I always adopted the…
Read MoreParameter Lizards or “Gated Communities”
Over the years the Navy sent me to many different duty stations around the world. I’ll use Puerto Rico (An American territory) as the classic example. In today’s vernacular they would be called “Gated Communities” because I was stationed with people whose only view of Puerto Rico had a 12 foot high Chain link fence…
Read MoreDog Years
For years I’ve heard the ratio was 7 to 1, but I recently found out that is not it at all. According to the interwebby thingy this is the equation: For the first two years, a dog year is equal to 10.5 human years. After that, each dog year equals 4 human years. This calculation…
Read MoreA blessing in the province
For Filipino families who live out in the province, life is quite different than for those who live in the city, or even from those in small towns. Out in the province, life is still very unchanged from back in the days of yesteryear. As Feyma reported in her article yesterday, our niece, Sahara (her…
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