Thursday, October 13, 2022
P.D. Has A Pear Tree (no partridges that I know of)
The pear tree on Son's property is very prolific and for some reason no one or no thing seems to want them. The deer ate every single one of his peaches, beginning when they were still green even finishing off the top ones that fell after they were totally over ripe and fell from the tree. Likewise,...
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
#8 - The Long Hunt
He was finally free but not free. Don was out of prison, but he was not free to do what he wanted to do. With his Inuit wife deceased, the cabin home occupied by Inuits he did not know, Panik missing and removed from his care, his livelihood denied him, his greatest desire was to find Panik and get...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
#7 - The Son Who Stayed Behind
Being young and impulsive, uneducated past high school, feeling love for the first time, and in a far-away place from the rest of his family, Don made decisions without really thinking about any consequences, or any impact on himself or on his family in Missouri. He didn't stop to think that even...
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Monday, October 10, 2022
#6 - When Taps Met Claire
It was after the year in Barrow, Alaska that I became friends with Claire. She had moved from the family home to an upstairs of a duplex close to where I lived and had started going to our family church. In fact, her son-in-law became our Pastor and her daughter began having grandbabies for her. Her...
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Sunday, October 9, 2022
#5 - The Last Day in Barrow
Everyone was packing. It was time to fly out of Barrow, Alaska. Claire was singing and the two younger boys were excited. After a year at the top of the world in a completely different environment than they had known existed, the boys were now excited about living with their Dad again and getting to...
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