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Almosta Blog

by David McClain

Rated: 18+ · Book · Other · #1909566

My Fourth blog on WDC

Welcome to Almosta Blog, the stories that happen every day here on Almosta Ranch. Come on in and be welcome, draw up a chair and set a spell on the front porch with me and my sweet wife, Melinda, better known as Mel.

What you will find here are stories about our many animals, and our daily life on a working ranch. Not the most riviting of subjects but I will try to hold your interest.

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Debi Wharton

Aug 9, 2017 at 9:31pm
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Happy to see you back here again. I have missed your writings. I too quit blogging and have no idea why I did. Maybe one soon I will clean out the cobwebs in mine too.

Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

Jul 26, 2017 at 8:25pm
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I still blog... but I use different two blogs at least. My daily life is boring when I'm not traveling so my old old blog houses mostly poetry now.

I find that I'm losing energy as well.

And I don't want my blog to just become political rants... I have facebook for that (although I should copy and paste the best in put them in an opinion blog I also neglect).

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Scarlett

Jul 26, 2017 at 12:28pm
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Welcome home. Things have changed so much for many of us, but there's still something special about blogging here.

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Scarlett

Jul 22, 2017 at 8:29am
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Already read this on FB, but your words are always worth a second reading. Strange we should both decide to write on similar subjects almost at the same time.

I too am feeling my age since living alone. Maybe we're more conscious of our movements and thoughts without the distractions and activities with a partner.

You still excel at writing your thoughts and feelings with your own unique style and humour. Mel would be smiling at this one.

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Wren

Jul 21, 2017 at 8:52pm
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Touching, David. I didn't know she died. I think I would the same way, as if the life had gone out of me.

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vivacious

Jul 21, 2017 at 8:46pm
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Age is part of the reason I try to avoid mirrors. Ignorance is bliss and all that.

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Kåre Enga in Udon Thani

Jul 21, 2017 at 3:33pm
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Beautifully stated. We are the same age... and I have a similar shuffle (although mine is from blockage). Still, I look in the mirror... and cringe at who looks back... but more importantly, I don't have the oomph.

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Debi Wharton

Feb 20, 2017 at 9:06pm
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I could almost picture it all in my mind. Beautiful memories.

Legerdemain

Feb 14, 2017 at 7:30pm
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I love memories like that! Mmmmm, fresh butter...so delicious. The problem I have is once I get the memory on paper, it has that shabby-worn look and isn't a good replicate of the nugget in my mind. Fortunately, you're better at making it pretty on paper.

Thanks for sharing.

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Nada

Feb 14, 2017 at 6:18pm
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Memories are for cherishing!! Glad you are able to remember.

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July 11, 2016 at 8:40pm

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A Winter's scene on Almosta Ranch

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Today I was reading one of my absolute favorite blogs here on WDC written by zwisis in which she was telling about Winter in Africa and it reminded me of my own experiences with this season when I lived in Missouri, on Almosta Ranch.

Now you have to understand that because I was born and raised in Southeast Texas I knew little or nothing of the phenomenon of four distinct seasons. All we ever had was varying shades of hot, warm, or mildly cool. When my wife and I first moved into our old farm house it was well into Fall in Missouri and I was lulled into a false sense of euphoria by the mild temperatures and the beautiful, changing colors of the foliage.

Then, within a month of our arrival, Winter made its appearance and I was shocked. Never in my life had I experienced temperatures below zero, never watched ten inches of snow accumulate in my yard or ice cover my trees. In short, I was spending days, snowed in and checking train schedules for passage back to Texas. I hated everything about Winter!

Then, one day when I had just about reached the end of my tether, the temperature took a spike upward to almost 50 degrees and I was amazed at how warm that felt after sub-zero weather. The snow had started to melt and patches of bare ground was visible when we ventured outside onto our front porch. That was when Mel pointed toward the back of our property and said softly, "Look at that sight."

I looked in the direction she was pointing and saw the sight pictured above. I can truly say I had never seen anything so beautiful in my life. All those trees, leaves striped bare by howling winds, had now replaced the dead foliage with new, sparkling " leaves" of ice which sparkled like jewels in the weak Winter sun. From that day forward to this one, Winter became my favorite season. Oh yes, I would still bitch and moan about the cold and snow, but secretly I reveled in each and every day of that lovely season I was lucky enough to experience.

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