Dootsie Bobo was my very best friend. One day I stopped by his house to see what he was doing and when I opened the kitchen door I was immediately alarmed! There, on the table, in plain sight, was a great big plate of still warm, fresh baked, oatmeal cookies! The alarming thing was, THE [...]
Browsing Dynamite™
THE GREAT SPIDER HUNT
Posted by ctowne in July 2nd, 2008
13 Comments
Posted in: Cherry bombs, Dynamite, Humor, Nostalgia, Spiders Tags: Boyish optimism, Cherry bombs, Dynamite, Explosion, Hissing sounds and painted bums, Spiders
BOOM! The rest of the story.
Posted by ctowne in April 15th, 2008
Posted in: Adventure, Dynamite, Humor, Nature, Nature writing, Nostalgia, Wilderness adventure, Wildlife Tags: Beaver dams, Flooded roads, Smart beaver
Well, here we go again. I promised that I would give you the rest of the ‘BOOM!’ story so here it is.
Beaver, as I am sure you know, love to build dams. The only problem with their dam building is that they build their dams with little regard to what humans might consider ‘expeditious,’ to [...]
BOOM!
Posted by ctowne in April 11th, 2008
Posted in: Cherry bombs, Dynamite, Fishing, Humor, Nature writing, Survival, Wilderness adventure Tags: Big bangs, Fishing with dynamite
The years pass and little boys are slowly transformed into big boys. As the saying goes, “Only the toys change.”
In my case the toys didn’t change they just became louder.
I feel sorry for kids today. No excitement.
When I was a kid we had cherry bombs and M-80,s oh how sweet the sound.
(Perhaps that is one [...]
Garloo the gopher turtle has spent years accumulating a collection of wise, woodsy sayings "what am handy t' live by!" Grab your daily dose of wisdom.
Latest In Choose a category:
Categories
- Announcements
- Humor
- Fishing
- Nature
- Wildlife
- Photography
- Nostalgia
- Litter-bugs
- Nature writing
- Imagination
- Walk in the woods
- Spiders
- Friendship
- Dynamite
- Cherry bombs
- Creative thinking
- Embarrassement
- Pervert
- Domestic tranquility
- Happiness
- Peace
- Wives
- Confession
- Lottery
- Stupidity
- Memories
- Wilderness adventure
- Adventure
- Danger
- Politics
- Survival
- Garloo
- Obeying the rules
- Cleanliness
- Optimism
- Conspiracy theory
- Love
- Faith
- Hope























Writer / Public speaker / naturalist / bear walker /wildlife photographer, providing wildlife footage for educational purposes to such fine organizations as Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Equinox Documentaries, Jim Fowler's 'Life in the Wild', Conservation Biology Magazine, Florida Department of Natural Resources, and various universities.