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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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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

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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March 4, 2016 at 12:31pm

#875709

Adapting to Change

In my absence from blogging here I had forgotten the struggle one must go through with this whole archaic system of HTML. I managed to lose a complete entry early this morning. I'd like to tell you that the lost entry was something special....prize winning stuff...but we both know I'd be lying.

I wanted to write about the human ability to adapt and how that is our strongest asset. I am adapting now. With the death of my wife, the selling off of all the animals of Almosta Ranch and the eventual sell of the land itself, I find myself r faced with the prospect of adapting to a whole new life and lifestyle. Soon me and Booker will be living among 6 million souls...a big change for a country boy.

It occurs to me that with this lifestyle change I really need to change this blog. After three complete blogs and almost twelve years, I no longer have the same subject matter available to me that I have always written about, namely a wife I love more than life and a simple ten acres we called Almosta Ranch and the animals that lived there.

A matter of adapting.

And I will adapt to the new normal in my life and I will find something else to write about, either here or another blog format but I would be remiss if I didn't point out that the only reason I am here and able to adapt is because of online friends who cared so much and kept in touch with me and kept me hanging on with their kind words and encouragement. It is at times like this that one finds out who their real friends are and now I know and I appreciate them so very much.

So that was what my blog entry was supposed to be about and as soon as I figure out how to change the blog title I will do so and I will continue to write. Who knows, I may even rediscover my sense of humor. Now if I can just get this posted......

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