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Ridley's Believe It Or
Not--January 3, 2014: Really scrapping the bottom of the barrel for
holidays and resorted to an old favorite Tenth
Day of Christmas (clear the furniture to
accept the 10 Lords-A- Leaping); but on this day in 1938, the March of
Dimes Foundation was established to find a cure for polio; in 1959 The
Great Land (Alaska) was admitted as the 49th State; and in 2000 the last
original weekly comic strip Peanuts was published.
An easy barometer on how the
world is doing: 'If the salmon and the steelhead are running, then as far
as I am concerned, God knows that all is well in His world---the health of
the environment is good if the salmon and steelhead are around. It is that
simple." Former Oregon Governor Tom McCall. As a former salmon
seiner could not agree more but might add "and your seine is outside
the markers and they are jumping in its direction with not a jellyfish to
be seen floating into, with little if any wind and enough Sun to keep
the mosquitos and noseeums at bay." Why doesn't Alaska's former governor come up
with gems like that?
As
you put an end to the short 24/7 work week after New Year's Day and the
disappointing loss by Stanford in the Rose Bowl, take five and please enjoy
the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below
(if you like them, retweet and join 134 growing followers and
please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
an original poem for Christmas just posted and poem on the 2013 in
review just posted.
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