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Hi, Friends,Look at me, blogging twice in a week. Life must be getting back to normal. How's it going? It's time to reveal another room in our East Texas house. There is no natural light in this space so I've had a terrible time getting good photos for you. I've given up! I think you'll want to see the transformation anyway. The laundry room was scary when we looked at the house. It was part laundry room, part pantry and part workshop. We cleaned it up and it looks pretty cute.  Do you want to see what we did? Of course you do. That's why you're...

Fitness v. Fatness (Part 7): “Pop” Go the Waistlines We again reach that transitional period when the theatrical cartoon was becoming a scarcer commodity, due to the closure of MGM, the abandonment of the regular release schedule of seven minute shorts at Disney, and the general shift of interest to television. In particular, however, Paramount Pictures (and subsequently, its television successors to its characters) continued to show an interest in promoting the story themes which have been highlighted in this series of articles, portraying both fitness gurus and fatness freaks with equal fairness. Popeye “pops” in four times today, accounting...

The best shower of my life took place 100 miles from the nearest water pipe. I’d been mountain biking the White Rim Trail through Utah’s Canyonlands National Park, and by evening my skin was plastered with sunscreen, salt, and grit. Sliding a sleeping bag over that mess would only intensify the ick. But Holiday River Expeditions, the outfitter that was supporting my ride with meals and sag wagons, had hauled a solar-heated shower system into the Utah backcountry. As the warm water and lavender castile soap rinsed away my salt crust, I felt better than clean. I felt reborn. “The...

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