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I've simply got to get out of the house more.

I dreamed last night that wildcatdon showed up at my old house in Bakersfield and went in my backyard to inspect the weeds growing out of control there. We never talked. True story.

Any dream analysts here?
Or first stage of Covid?
Something in your water.
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I like that name. My grandpa raised "Rattlesnake" melons An interesting article about them. Seems they disappeared as a commercial melon but has come back after 100 years. Melons were huge when I was a boy and my grandpa raised his from his own seeds. Grandpa had a green thumb and taught me the love for the land.

https://www.news-journalonline.com/...melon-is-brought-back-to-life-after-100-years
I miss the big 'ol watermelons from years past. Now days, at least around here, you can't hardly find the big seeded watermelons anymore. They're almost all the round (some decent size) seedless kind.
Remember when I first moved to Atlanta you would find pick-up trucks parked along streets/roads all over selling those big ones out of the back of the truck. Or down at the Farmer's Market.
Guess the farmer can get more melons to the acre with the smaller round ones? Don't know.
 
I miss the big 'ol watermelons from years past. Now days, at least around here, you can't hardly find the big seeded watermelons anymore. They're almost all the round (some decent size) seedless kind.
Remember when I first moved to Atlanta you would find pick-up trucks parked along streets/roads all over selling those big ones out of the back of the truck. Or down at the Farmer's Market.
Guess the farmer can get more melons to the acre with the smaller round ones? Don't know.
Years and years ago you could get watermelons off the side of the road for 10 for a dollar. !0 cents apiece. On my first trip to Florida right after I married I told my wife the minute we hit the Florida line you are going to see truck loads of watermelons for sale. Ten for a dollar. She laughed. Sure enough the signs were up 10 for a dollar.

But I will have to say this. They were not the big rattlesnake melons, more like icebox size.

Icebox watermelon

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Rattlesnake watermelon

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Feels a bit like Old Man Winter in Ohio this morning. Mid-20s. Brrrrrrr.
The Mrs headed out at 5:30 to WalMart for their ongoing Black Friday deals. For some weird reason we always enjoyed Black Fridays over the years. Became a family tradition. For probably 20 years we'd get up at 4 or so and hit the stores till about 9...and we were pretty much done. Always enjoyed it....and I'm not a shopper at all. Once a year. But this year I don't even know if they'll have a Black Friday on Black Friday. Covid ya know.

Say a prayer for one of my granddaughters if you would. She passed out at school yesterday and was out for about 5 minutes. So far they haven't found anything wrong and are attributing it to dehydration. She's about 14, so she's at the age where they quit eating trying to look like a supermodel to fit into the latest 'in' jeans, etc. Plus she's a whirlwind of activity. In all kinds of things at school and is on a traveling All-Star cheerleading squad so she's always training and working out.

Have a good Saturday.
Hopefully it's nothing serious. Prayers sent for your granddaughter.
 
Years and years ago you could get watermelons off the side of the road for 10 for a dollar. !0 cents apiece. On my first trip to Florida right after I married I told my wife the minute we hit the Florida line you are going to see truck loads of watermelons for sale. Ten for a dollar. She laughed. Sure enough the signs were up 10 for a dollar.

But I will have to say this. They were not the big rattlesnake melons, more like icebox size.

Icebox watermelon

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Rattlesnake watermelon

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Is there anything better when it hot than COLD watermelon?? I have a long list too......
 
My personal all-time starting 5 in the NBA

Magic
Bird
Jordan
Wilt
Barkley

My all time favorite NBA player is

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Back a long, long time ago, my friend Jim Reese went with me to one of the early ABA games in Louisville.

He, Julius, came in and stumbled to the goal and scored. Then about a minute later he stumbled to the goal and scored again.

After about 10 times of him stumbling to the goal and scoring we started to ask "who the hell is that skinny guy?"

It was Julius.
 
Years and years ago you could get watermelons off the side of the road for 10 for a dollar. !0 cents apiece. On my first trip to Florida right after I married I told my wife the minute we hit the Florida line you are going to see truck loads of watermelons for sale. Ten for a dollar. She laughed. Sure enough the signs were up 10 for a dollar.

But I will have to say this. They were not the big rattlesnake melons, more like icebox size.

Icebox watermelon

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Rattlesnake watermelon

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In Korea, watermelons are a delicacy. They go for twenty dollars or more on the open market.
 
These were different pics I took at the Commissary in Daegu at different times. Needless to say I skipped these during the three years I was there... (Not that I couldn't have bought one but it was the principal of knowing what I paid for them in the states.) I never could have enjoyed them. Much higher off post.

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Won't even go into the cost of Spam...

Oh, the South Korean Grid... And my Darling...

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