In order to offer a post connected, however tenuously, to Thanksgiving, Heck Of A Guy presents a reprise of The Poults Grow Up, 51 seconds of video views from 2007 of the turkey hen and her three poults that spent their summers in our back yard. Where’s Albert Noonan when you need him?
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Thanksgiving Commemoration With The 3 Poults
November 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Fascinations, Local
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Remembering Crystal Lake Back When …
October 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · Local
Pardon this indulgence in nostalgia. This is a photo of Crystal Lake, about a block away from our home. I still have fond memories of this era, two weeks and one season ago.
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Observations On The Crystal Lake July 4th Parade
July 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Local
Crystal Lake, Illinois Independence Day Parade 2009 Click on photos to enlarge for better viewing 1. Crystal Lake, Illinois is not the kind of town that takes its 4th of July Parade lightly – even when that event takes place on the 5th of July.1 Flash an American flag, and we all stand – no [...]
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On The Run Again – Two Years Later
June 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Local
Succumbing To The Lure Of The Open Road Two years ago, I fractured my hip. Six weeks later, the fracture was diagnosed and pinned. Between those two points, I went about my daily tasks, including 1-2 hours of exercise, and completed two weeks of physical therapy. After diagnosis and surgery, I spent six months avoiding [...]
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Another Sunday, Another Deer Or Two
June 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · Local
These photos are admittedly not aesthetic masterpieces or even casually competent shots; I offer them only as evidence that we seem to be on the Sunday visitation schedule for the local deer. The only deer I’ve seen in this area since moving here a year ago were last Sunday’s specimen and and these two, whom [...]
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Sunday Morning Deer Visit
June 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · Local
Since our move from the rustic setting of Heck Of A House to our current abode within the city limits, the view from my desk has afforded me all manner of entertaining sights (heck, the dog walkers alone, if they would adhere to my schedule, could keep me amused for hours) but few that would [...]
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Spring Break In Crystal Lake, Illinois
March 29th, 2009 · Comments Off · Local
The Heck Of A Guy setting has shifted 3 or 4 miles and the scenery is less spectacular, but it’s the Same Old Snow. Click on images for better viewing.
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Illinois – Where Political Corruption Rocks
March 10th, 2009 · Comments Off · Local, Music
Oklahoma Already Rocks Well I never been to Heaven But I been to Oklahoma From “Never Been To Spain” – 3 Dog Night Today’s Blog Quest begins in Oklahoma. Because (1) my 9th grade school year happened to take place during the 18 months my family lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma1 and (2) the Oklahoma legislature [...]
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Barack & The Blagojevich Blues Illinois Playlist
January 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · Local, Music
The Canadian Connection CBC Radio has been promoting the”Barack Obama Playlist,” 49 Canadian songs,1 ostensibly selected by listeners,2 that will somehow3 find its way to Obama in hopes of giving him an understanding of the complex and variegated nature of contemporary Canada or, as a CBC representative put it, One of the best ways to [...]
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McHenry County Squares
December 19th, 2008 · Comments Off · Local
To show there are no hard feelings over the rejection of the Dick Tracy design proposed by the Heck Of A Guy blog as the new McHenry County Seal,1 I have devised a design format that would be in keeping with the seeming consensus among those making the decisions that a seal with multiple partitions [...]
