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MUSHY'S MOOCHINGS
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A sixties kind of guy remembering the past and the lessons learned. I'm passing on what I've mooched from from life in hopes of sparking memories and helping others. It's just my life as best I can make it.
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HUNTING WILDFLOWERS AND EATING AT THE “GOOD OL’ DAYS DINER”
Judy went and worked out at Curves this past Monday morning and then brought us breakfast back from Hardees. I had the coffee made when she arrived and “MAN” was it tasty! We then hopped in the truck, cooler in the back, and headed for the g...
HIKING IN THE CLOUDS
Katie Bug and her beau Zack were to be out of school today, so Judy and I told them we would take them hiking at Burgess Falls. However, Wednesday started off under heavy clouds, no rain, just low clouds, and cool temps. Therefore, we decided to sa...
SPRING BEAUTIES EVERYWHERE
Judy and I searched for wildflowers Tuesday as we walked the "Old Mac" trail at Frozen Head State Park. Not only did I find a “spring beauty” standing in the middle of the trail going up, I found another along side the trail on the way back to...
EAST END OF THE NORTH BOUNDARY GREENWAY
Wednesday found Neena, Ron, Judy, and me on the trail again. This time we started at the east end of the North Boundary Greenway, which is on the west end of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. We ended up doing 4.426 clicks…that’s 2.75 miles round trip!The fa...
THE PRESENT, PAST, AND FUTURE
Judy and I had a large day Tuesday, not that most days aren’t like that since retirement, but we were up and off to the dentist by 9:30.We both had appointments; she had an assessment of her braces and found out that they had little effect on her ...
NORTH BOUNDARY – DÉJÀ VU
Judy was up and out the door to make the rounds at Curves by 8:30. Me, well, I was up by 9, or so, and heating up the oven and starting the coffee to drip. I popped 3 biscuits in the oven, and hit the bathroom, and by the time I was out, the bisc...
JEFF AND DENISE HAVING A BALL!
Monday evening we closed Big Ed’s Pizza in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The pizza was exceptionally good and we were all starving…not that we look like it, just that we were feeling it! Jeff and Denise arrived a little later than planned, so sin...
ON THE TRAIL AGAIN
Ron and I hiked the east end of the North Boundary Trail (approx. 3.2 mile round trip), a Greenway in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee area, near where K-25 Plant sits. The gravel road runs about 7 miles from the west end of the City of Oak Ridge, just b...
MY “LAUGH & TIMES” FLASHED BEFORE MY EYES
“There’s the neatest little waterfall over here Mushy (not his real name),” Judy said. “Look at those “Bluets” down on the side of that rock,” Ron added. Earlier, Judy had been miffed at me for not coming across to the big ro...
ROCK ISLAND STATE PARK
If you have noticed all the wildflowers I post or put on Flickr, you probably have surmised that we don’t kill ourselves on hikes. Ron usually has me lead and set the pace and I’m constantly stopping to look under leaves for “little brown ju...
BACK ON THE CUMBERLAND TRAIL
Steve and Terri had not been to see the big rocks up on Black Mountain, along the Justin P. Wilson Segment of the Cumberland Trail, so we took them Sunday. Steve, particularly, seemed to have a ball and even had me climbing to greater heights than...
BURGESS FALLS IN THE SPRING
Ron, Neena, Judy, and I took another road trip this week to the Burgess Falls State Natural Area (State Park), where we found lots of water flowing, for a change, and many wildflowers. The area is named for Tom Burgess who started a lumber and gr...
ROANE COUNTY TENNESSEE SPRING WALKS
We are blessed in East Tennessee with many wonderful state and national parks, greenways, and pocket wildernesses to walk in and enjoy the spring wildflowers. Closer to home, in Roane County, we are again blessed with city parks, river walks, and ...
SPRING WILDFLOWERS
Ron, Neena, Judy, and I went on a short 2 mile hike yesterday at Frozen Head, a Tennessee State Park only about 10 miles from where Judy and I live. It is up in “God’s Country”, otherwise known as Morgan County, near Wartburg, Tennessee (I k...
BLACK MOUNTAIN TENNESSEE
Thousands of people pass Black Mountain everyday, traveling between Crossville and Knoxville, Tennessee, but they never give it much thought, and that’s good for folks like Ron and me. I’m sure there are more people who get off at the Crab Orcha...
