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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 16, 2016 at 12:47pm

#887564

Another Place, Another Time

I was reading blogs this morning when I ran across one that was answering a prompt. The prompt was: "If you could travel through time to another era to live what would it be and why." Or words to that effect anyway, and it got me to thinking. There is only one other time in history that I would consider and that is the American West during the era of the Mountain Men. Roughly from 1810 to 1840 men like Jim Bridger, Jedediah Smith, and Hugh Glass, roamed the great wilderness West of the Mississippi river.

Jedediah Smith once remarked that while he was out trapping beaver, if he happened to spot the smoke from a chimney, he knew it was time to move on, that it was getting too crowded at that spot. THAT is the America I would love to see, one that is free of the pollution and destruction brought on by today's overpopulation.

Can you imagine coming upon a wide, green, valley bordered by aspen and fir, with a wild, clear and clean river flowing through it and the only living things you see are deer and buffalo, wolf and cougar and bear. My God it would be enough to make a man believe in Heaven again. To be able to live a simple life in that valley surrounded by nothing but nature and with no other people within a hundred miles or so....perfection.

As long as I can remember I have yearned to live the life of a Mountain man. When not grudgingly attending school, I spent every free minute I could manage, riding my horse through the deep pine forests of East Texas and spending my nights camped along a creek or river and trying to imagine myself exploring a new land with Jim Bridger and his companions.

So here I am today, well into my sixth decade of life and that yearning and that dream is as strong now as it was when I was a child. Who knows, maybe one day......

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