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Category: My Friends

  • Feelin’ Dandy

    Feelin’ Dandy

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22156 – 725: Dear And Beloved Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings, Fairies, Fearies, Frogs, Flower Children, And Other Assorted Woodland And Urban Creatures And People, Felicitous salutations to you all. (That means, “Howdy!) I have been having a good time catching up on everyone’s blogs and I…

  • Award Winning Wednesday – Colin McQueen at Getting On

    Award Winning Wednesday – Colin McQueen at Getting On

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    Herb

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22151 – 723: The other night Colin McQueen of the blog Getting On paid me a very high compliment indeed, when he said, “…Loved the poem. If I spoke with an American accent, I would hear myself talking.” Well, I took it as a compliment, anyway. He…

  • Award Winning Wednesday – Tony Laplume At Tony Laplume

    Award Winning Wednesday – Tony Laplume At Tony Laplume

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    Herb

    Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22125-696: Tonight’s award is a little different because I actually do know Tony in person. We became acquainted when we both worked at the big blue box. We didn’t have a lot of conversations or spend a lot of time together but have you ever met someone…

  • Take It From The Top – Cleaning My Desk – part the seventh

    Take It From The Top – Cleaning My Desk – part the seventh

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    Herb

    Many of you know or know of, my friend Carter, especially if you’ve read any of the back posts. He survived being blown up in an IED incident in 2006 which I attempted to chronicle here. That article had originally been posted on a previous blog site I used to…

  • Award Winning Wednesday – Petra at Erratic Engineeress

    Award Winning Wednesday – Petra at Erratic Engineeress

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    Herb

    Again, this week’s selection was difficult to make. I read a lot of cool blogs of a wide variety of genres, none of whom need an award from me for validation and my criteria for choosing a blog for this award are pretty random. It’s just one that I follow…

  • Second Place and Tag Me Tuesday

    Second Place and Tag Me Tuesday

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    Herb

    First, thank you all for voting for my friends, they came in a close second and got a $15,000 prize. Subject to taxes, etc. I was very happy for them! Mrs. T’s Corner left a comment stating they had nominated me for an awesome blogger award but the link did…

  • Vote For My Friends

    Vote For My Friends

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    Herb

    We have some friends in the restaurant business here in Colorado Springs. The name of the place is El Taco Rey and they have been here in the Springs since 1976. It is, pretty much literally, a hole in the wall. A little building with awesome food. We met the…

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