Mother Is Necessity Of Extension Lacking internet access at or near my Mom’s home, I find myself motivated to learn to post via phone. The shots of Table Rock Lake were taken from the deck of Mom’s cabin. Click on images for best viewing. The scene shown above is near Shell Knob, Missouri.
Entries Tagged as 'ozarks'
Family Home Photo Safari: Basement Items Part II
December 15th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
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Family Home Photo Safari: Basement Items Part I
December 12th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Basement Items Now On-line: Cider Press, Churns, Wrenches, Saws, Bee Smokers, Block & Tackles, Ironware Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that fill my mother’s home are now available for viewing. If the living room contains my mother’s most impressive [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Deck Items
December 5th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Deck Items – Carved Geese, Yokes, Saws, Horseshoes – Now On-line Photos of another group of those doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that line the walls and reside in the geological layers of miscellanea that arise from nearly every table and shelf as well as [...]
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Family Home Photo Safari: Bedroom Items
December 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Bedroom Items – Razors, Shaving Mugs, Button-hooks, Strops – Now On-line Photos of a portion of the doodads, antiques, gadgets, widgets, junk, tchotchkes, collectibles, oddities, curios, odds, ends, and much, much more that line the walls and reside in the geological layers of miscellanea that arise from nearly every table and shelf as well as [...]
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Family Home Curios and Oddities Photo Safari
December 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Stalking The Wild Ozarks Tchotchke – Earlier Expeditions I introduced the world to my mother’s home and its contents in an early Heck of a Guy post, In My Mother’s House Are Many Tchotchkes, with this description: For you fans of geosociological phenomena, my mother’s home is the nexus of Ozark kitsch and that principle [...]
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Ozark Entertainments – Visiting Mom
November 23rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Friends-Family, Holidays-Celebrations, Self-Referential
Dateline: The Ozarks I took the photo atop this post early this morning from the back deck of my mother’s home, perched on a bluff overlooking Table Rock Lake. Mom’s home is also at least a 45 minute drive from the nearest significant retail district.1 With that geographical circumstance and the tenuous, extraordinarily slow dial-up [...]
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The Great Ozark Folk Festival Flood of 1973:
August 10th, 2007 · Comments Off · Fascinations
Finally, The Flood The Last Night In Mountain View Unexplained wailing from the woods, spaghetti sandwiches, and the dependence of strangers on us for food notwithstanding,1 the Festival and Mountain View2 had been a fulfilling experience – and an exhausting one. On Saturday night, we settled into our sleeping bags in anticipation of awakening refreshed [...]
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Greer Springs In The Missouri Ozarks
May 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Photos-Lord of Leisure
The Lord of Leisure1 Photo Gallery The Lord of Leisure writes: Greer Spring on the Eleven Point River may be the most beautiful spot we have found after many hiking and canoing trips through the Ozarks. Until several years ago the shoreline was private property, and the only access was a steep half-mile trail, which [...]
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Mom's House Of Tchotchkes
April 10th, 2006 · Comments Off · Fascinations, Friends-Family
In My Mother’s House Are Many Tchotchkes: if it were not so, I would have told you — but that wouldn’t be much of a posting, would it? Not to worry. I grew up in, and, more pertinently, my mother still lives in the Ozarks, where the only gated communities are inhabited exclusively by cattle, [...]
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