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Dumpster fires, carbuerators and trying to find second gear

Please don’t take this as advice. I’ll never be the guy writing a self help book…….. My words of advice ……..”Don’t wash the cast iron skillet. Don’t drink and drive cause you’ll spill it……If there’s a hole inside you fill it……”. It’s Memorial Day weekend….. Thank you for your service. I bet those boys and girls who gave it all never planned to have a bomb in the sand and to sleep forever in…

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THINGS EVEREY GENTLEMAN SHOULD OWN, BUT MOST ARE NOT "THINGS"

It’s been a while since I have picked up the pencil……. Life get’s in the way and for several years it hasn’t felt “right” to write. But lately my mind has started working again although I am overwhelmed with real life work……. The dream got away, but I am happy…… I LOVE BEING THE CONDUCTOR OF THE SHIT SHOW AND THE HEAD OF THE OCTOPUS! When you leave all the bullsiit behind is when you find real…

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The Bahamian Adventure. Day 26

The Bahamian Adventure. Day 26

The sunsets…..AMAZING!

I am writing this now under the one and only lamp that survived Dorian. The wind is howling and the rain is pouring here while tropical storm Eta is battering Elbow Cay and the Abacos. 60-70 mph winds and 5-15 inches of rain is forecasted and judging by the conditions outside I think the weatherman is right!

We were supposed to return to the states Tuesday but that…

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The Bahamian Adventure. Day 26

The Bahamian Adventure. Day 26

The sunsets…..AMAZING!

I am writing this now under the one and only lamp that survived Dorian. The wind is howling and the rain is pouring here while tropical storm Eta is battering Elbow Cay and the Abacos. 60-70 mph winds and 5-15 inches of rain is forecasted and judging by the conditions outside I think the weatherman is right!

We were supposed to return to the states Tuesday but that…

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The Bahamian Adventure. Day 23

The Bahamian Adventure. Day 23

I’ve been here 23 days now. The Presidential election was yesterday and I really have no desire to go back to my native country of the good ol’ USA. I like the pace of life here, the good people I’ve met and now consider friends, the fact that no one here sees black or white. They only see Bahamians…….Junior, a longtime local who owns the local joint Willie’s put it into a very blunt perspective…

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The Bahamian Adventure. Day 17?

The Bahamian Adventure. Day 17?

The Thinker…….The entire house (right up the hill from where we are) was blown into the yard except the toilets, sink and bath tub!

Not many people get to spend time living beachfront, with nothing out the back door except the sand, surf and Europe thousands of mile across the Atlantic Ocean. I’m a lucky bastard if I must say so myself, even though the living conditins are little “primitive!”

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The Bahamian Adventure Day 10

The Bahamian Adventure Day 10

So, here I am sitting here writing this on the deck of a 2 million dollar home in Dorres Cove in Elbow Cay. Part of the Abacos chain of islands in the Bahamas. Seems like I’m living the dream right? But what I failed to mention that is was completely wrecked in 2019 by Hurricane Dorian. The house is completely devoid of windows, the pool is full of sand, and the place is over run by rats and we…

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The Bahamian Adventure. Day 5

The Bahamian Adventure. Day 5

I have come here for a working vacation, but also to get my mind straight…… I think I’ve come to the right place to do this. They say that idle hands are the devil’s playground and since the pandemic hit I’ve had a lot of idle time.You can only sit on the beach and read a book for so long! The duplex I bought on St. Simons Island is fixed up and we have already received an offer on it and have it…

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The Bahamian Adventure

I dissolved my company on February 28th 2020. I was going on a journey of self discovery. Well I recently got dragged back in to the trade I tried to walk away from…….. But at least this time it’s for an adventure and a good cause, and the money is pretty damn good if I must say so myself. So here I am working as a carpenter again, and it feels good for the first time in YEARS! You see, I hated…

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The Bahamian Adventure

I dissolved my company on February 28th 2020. I was going on a journey of self discovery. Well I recently got dragged back in to the trade I tried to walk away from…….. But at least this time it’s for an adventure and a good cause, and the money is pretty damn good if I must say so myself. So here I am working as a carpenter again, and it feels good for the first time in YEARS! You see, I hated…

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Chateau Doyon , Late Summer 2020

Chateau Doyon , Late Summer 2020

Bobby D showing off his wood

I have always been one of those guys who feels more at ease with the miscreants, derelicts and deviants than the frat boy “fu*kheads from buckhead” types that I see all too much of now that I’m back down south……. If you are from Georgia you know what I’m talking about! I never was a “GO DAWGS!’ type of guy, and I still have a really hard time with that mentality, but…

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Letters from inside. A look back into my soul.

One from the vaults......

My cousin texted me this the other day……. Taken either just before I went in or just after I got out.

While visiting a life long friend I stumbled upon these gems. My buddy told me “My kids always give me a hard time about saving everything, but this is one of the times I’m glad I did!”

I hadn’t seen my good friend Shack in 23 years, but it was like we had always been there. Old friends die…

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Letters from inside. A look back into my soul.

Letters from inside. A look back into my soul.

My cousin texted me this the other day……. Taken either just before I went in or just after I got out.

While visiting a life long friend I stumbled upon these gems. My buddy told me “My kids always give me a hard time about saving everything, but this is one of the times I’m glad I did!”

I hadn’t seen my good friend Shack in 23 years, but it was like we had always been there. Old friends die…

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Letters from inside. A look back into my soul.

Letters from inside. A look back into my soul.

My cousin texted me this the other day……. Taken either just before I. went in or just after I got out.

While visiting a life long friend I stumbled upon these gems. My buddy told me “My kids always give me a hard time about saving everything, but this is one of the times I’m glad I did!”

I hadn’t seen my good friend Shack in 23 years, but it was like we had always been there. Old friends…

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A Box inside a box inside a box

A Box inside a box inside a box

I have not written in 5 months. Once again life got in the way and it just did not feel right to write. (no pun intended)

As of now I am officially homeless…….. Not by necessity, but by choice. I’m tired of living inside a box. The box that “society” puts you in. The box of a house, with the box you have to put the mortgage check or rent check in so you can live in that box for another 30…

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Bisti Wilderness Area, New Mexico, February 2020

Bisti Wilderness Area, New Mexico, February 2020

This past weekend I went somewhere I had wanted to go for a long time. So close to home, yet another world…… I imagine this is what it looks like on another planet and I felt like I was on the set of a Star Wars movie and at any moment some strange looking creature riding a futuristic machine was going to come screaming through the brisk desert air. I half expected to come around a corner and see…

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Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. February 2020

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. February 2020

Pueblo Bonito

I loaded up in Annie on a whim. Friday night. 5 PM. No clue where I was headed. South was all I knew. Away from the snow and cold. I dialed up a lady friend and told her to get her ass over to the house. I was leaving with or without her…….She decided she wanted to climb in, so off we went. Into the great unknown!

We headed south on Hwy 550. New Mexico bound! It was getting…