Monthly Archives: June 2010

Hurricane Ivan

Hurricane Ivan struck Pensacola at 2 a.m. on September 16, 2004, with a force that varied between a Category 3 and 5.  You don’t hear much about it because it was overshadowed by Katrina the following year.  Katrina was a … Continue reading

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Pool Sanitation

I admit I  was slightly pulling your leg in the June 11 posting on Poop in the Pool, and I panicked several long-time pool users.  The truth is, despite popular belief, you are not swimming in the body excrement of … Continue reading

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Mini Reunion

Holding the mini-reunion on the first Thursday of June worked out well.  As we did last year, Leon West, Jerry Jerome, and myself, along with our spouses, stayed overnight at the Tahiti Inn with a perfect location at 12th and … Continue reading

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Poop in the Pool

Since I opened the topic of poop in the last posting, I may as well push on and get it all out.  Flush out the topic, so to speak, especially as summer approaches. Remember the scene in Caddyshack where Bill … Continue reading

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Floaters and Sinkers

Reader discretion is advised.  If you are easily grossed-out, just skip this one.  If you chose to read on, don’t blame me—you were warned. My good wife, a former nurse, always believed in the old saying, “If your poop floats, … Continue reading

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Depression Babies

A recent letter to the editor in the Wall Street Journal (by Rab Hagin of Lexington, KY) points out how lucky we depression babies were to be born when we were—so lucky we took it for granted and assumed our … Continue reading

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