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Old home week* got even more fun, if that could be possible, when I read Kathy Forsythe’s e-mail Saturday morning asking “Do you have a blog?”.  Kathy, editor of the South County News, is writing a story for the August issue about Vicksburg and Vicksburg-connected folks who had self-published their books.  Kathy, VHS class ofContinue reading “SCN again”

My new dear friend, Judy, a Vicksburg classmate, was a medical transcriptionist.  She understood the lingo but took her understanding of COVID from the MSM.  I’ve been working on setting her straight.  When she came back from a recent exchange stating that was her understanding was that Plaquenil (which she had to look up asContinue reading “hey, Jude”

I today brought home from Staples some paper copies of the second edition of my first little book The Accident so I could have some for the Kindle-less.  They look great but lack one functionality of a Kindle, the ability to access any link.  There are only four links in the book, two to songsContinue reading “more links”

You really have no right to write about how great a party was unless you’ve got a good hangover from it.  I had that thought as I dragged myself out of bed this morning.  With that biologic memory of last night’s blowout fading as we crept into Saturday afternoon, I figured I better get crackingContinue reading “Wasn’t that a party?!”

Kathy and I have decided to celebrate Bastille day by making some genuine French fries, even though we knew they were mainly a Belgian thing, or maybe not https://delishably.com/vegetable-dishes/Is-it-French-Fries-or-Belgian-Frites.   We acquired the genuine McDonald’s recipe https://www.food.com/recipe/mc-donalds-classic’french-fries-copycat-433745, and had the necessary beef tallow on hand (secret ingredient) https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1384.  Prior to 1990, all McDonald’s  fries were friedContinue reading “want fries with that?”

Are you spooked by this yet another new strain of COVID?  Don’t be.  When I first wrote about 2019-nCoVBetaCoV/Wuhan/WIVo4/2019 (Mr. Corona’s full name) back on March 13, 2020, just as things were starting to heat up (1), I mentioned that the little sucker mutates like a mink.  The error rate in reading coronavirus RNA isContinue reading “delta schmelta”

So what’s in those books I plugged recently? I thought I might clarify things by posting the forward that’s in each volume. Musing through a pandemic.  A year and a half with Mr. Corona. How did this all start?  There I was, 6 months into a forced retirement and finally shaking the bitterness while beginningContinue reading “a follow up on those shameless plugs”

Last month, I finally got around to reviewing and organizing the 170 odd posts I’d put up since starting this blog in January 2020. I thought that they might make up a book, strung around the theme of living through this pandemic. When I started, Mr. Corona was just making his way over from WuhanContinue reading “more shameless plugs”

I made a shameless plug a month ago for my second book https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/1606, this one about the funnest band ever- Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen – and all the good times they and their alumni have provided me over the past 50 plus years. It was too slim a volume for Mr. BezosContinue reading “links”

We were hanging this evening listening to Spotify Louis Prima channel, a pretty fun and lively place.  A song came up, say that’s my theme song!  At least for my kitchen.  You denizens of this blog will notice that I like to punctuate my posts with a tune.  None of my kitchen and food postsContinue reading “when they come to my house”