It now Saturday afternoon (14 Sept) Froggy is making Fog Horn sounds today so it must be raining plus it’s in stereo so Froggy has a new friend, it’s raining a real gully washer (I heard that on Roy Rogers) the new furniture shows up at the gate and driver man wants to start unloading […]
A little Surprise (Part One)
Mrs. Thompson and I had a discussion or if I stated it clearer Mayang told me that our bedroom needed re-painting. She explained that the car was fine and Christmas (And yes in the Philippines we can still say that word, even on the TV and in Newspapers.) was 3 months away. According to her […]
The Ambient Vendor in the Philippines
When I was a kid in the Dorchester section of Boston there was a horse and wagon that came around all summer and sold fruit and vegetables in the neighborhood, and the guy was called a huckster (or Hawker), also there was the Hoodsies truck (Or the Good Humor man) that sold Ice Cream, to […]
This Kano and Kanin
Being of Irish descent, and remembering my Grandparents telling me of the Great Potato Famine of their youth, and of their migration to America. I’ll freely confess that in my life Potatoes have been a mainstay in my diet. I won’t list the many and varied ways that potatoes can be cooked or prepared as […]
Foghorn the Frog
First thing, my knowledge of amphibians is extremely limited, so the creature I referred to as a frog could well be a toad (Named the Rhinella Marina) but whatever group it aligns it’s self with, it’s loud. Most of my knowledge of frogs comes from an old 50-60’s TV show called The Buster Brown Show […]
What Was the Name of That Typhoon?
There was a typhoon scheduled by the Pag-Asa (Weather Dept.) Supposed to hit on Saturday or within a day or two last week, here on Luzon (It’s not an exact science), what do you do? You could panic, and run in circles with your arms in the air shouting, Aye, Aye Aye trying to figure […]