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I swear, some people are so dumb. I can’t believe how dumb they are. They are way dumber than I am. The dumbest people I know are those who do their banking at Wells Fargo. The very minute you walk through the doors of a...
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I’m sure everybody has seen the video where the duck gets sucked into the glory hole at Lake Berryessa. The video, taken by Solano County Water Agency’s Rick Fowler has gone viral with over 110,000 views and 400 comments on Facebook. YouTube has gone wild...
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My cousin LoBell is coming to Winters. Yesterday I received a letter from my cousin, LoBell. He is the last of the Sanders relatives living in, or rather just outside of Cookeville, Tennessee, where I was born and lived as a small child. I don’t...
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I lived my entire life alone. It was always me and them. I found a woman and “I” became “we,” and thus it was us and them. It was much the same when we had children. There was us and there was everything else. We...
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“I want to find a airplane to charter and have the pilot take you and me way up high enough to see the curvature of the Earth.” That was one of the last things my friend, Joe Tomlinson, wanted to do before he got so...
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Here we go again! The so-called “Friends of Putah Creek” have taken legal action through the Solano County Superior Court, naming the Central Valley Flood Protection Board (CVFPB), the Solano County Water Agency, The City of Winters, and (correct me if I’m wrong) up to...
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Back in the old days, a guy named Diogenes spent all his time looking for an honest man, an admirable man. I don’t know if he ever found one or not, but I think I can tell you why he had so much trouble. He...
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Today is Memorial Day. Well, at least it was when I wrote this column. When it comes around Memorial Day always awakens something within me that is unique and difficult to explain. It is a warm holiday. When I say “warm” I do not mean...
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Things you remember about your life are not of the true events. What you are remembering is the last time you remembered the same event. The memories never get clearer, they only get fuzzier and a little less clear. Thus we leave everything behind, because...
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