Welcome Winter Solstice

Today is National Maine Day, French Fried Shrimp Day and Humbug Day. Today also marks the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere. Just what does that mean?

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Bayou Country is Calling Me

While I have wintered in the South Pacific and summered in the Pacific Northwest, I have never stepped foot in the state of Louisiana. That’s not a reflection on the great state of Louisiana, I’ve just never been there. Yet, for reasons I have never understood, every June I get a hankering way deep down inside my soul for bayou country. I hear Credence  Clearwater Revival playing in my head.

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