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We hiked Waterman Mountain some years ago and could see Winston Peak from the top, so it was well past time to bag this peak. Winston Ridge was a pleasant surprise!This was such a special hike, I would consider this one of our better peak hikes that we have done!Let's go!This...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Sure, I’m Ignorant and Will Always Be   Criticism from afar can cut just as deeply as in-your-face histrionics, complete with sputum and the bulging eyes of the critic.  But being called ignorant was never a huge insult for...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     What Do You See?   Many chronicles of late have begun with ideas developed in dreams and later polished on paper. A few chronicles like this one begin with a picture and must be probed to reveal the story...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    Let’s Go Shake the Mango Tree, the Cherry Tree, and the Apple Trees   Many chronicles of late have been enticed and extracted from dreams and polished up on paper before deciding where the latest one belongs:  in the legacy...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Leaving An Khe     The 3:10am start on this chronicle was kick-started by last night’s dream that filled in a small piece of an unsolved puzzle.  But the added clarity that dreams sometime provide left open an important...

  Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Tags and Related Posts   If you have any interest in attracting readers to the subject matter in any of your posts, you may want to inspect and review your use of tags, as part and parcel of...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     The A-Frame   In recent years the branch of agricultural science known as agroforestry has become more popular around the world. The appeal of agroforestry is more pronounced in Third World countries where family farms and subsistence agriculture are...

In reading through letters that my wife's grandfather sent home during World War II, it was interesting to be able to look into his life and feelings during that troubled time. In a similar vane, I felt it might be of interest if I were to journal through this pandemic as we...

In being a good steward of my family history, it is only proper that I journal during this difficult time we find ourselves in. Since we are now a few months into this pandemic, It is probably best that I summarize some of the facts, globally as well as locally, that...

Each summer a trip my mother and her sisters looked forward to was taking the train from Roanoke to Bluefield to visit their Aunt Beulah Wagner and Uncle Dock.  It was a two-day affair, as they had to take "The Motor" (local train) from Rocky Mount to Roanoke, spend the night...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     The Scariest Things Random thoughts of Africa came in a dream last night, so the Footloose Forester decided to stitch a few of them together in a chronicle that might be labeled The Scariest Things.  First and foremost, of...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    The Parody Defense   Only once in a while does the forgotten, third-rate would-be crafter of parody who calls himself the Footloose Forester get a response to his missives. He would prefer kudos but, alas, when the infrequent responses come,...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Sophistry as a Conman’s Burglar Tool   As much as I dislike lies, exaggerations, and fanciful tales that morph into urban legends, the people who use them on a regular basis and know that they work on a fair...

On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Dr. Ben Stout Was My Kind of Guy It is true that having a receptive mood is one of the conditions that is required for the Footloose Forester to even draft a chronicle.  If something inside him says, "this...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Smoking or Non-Smoking? Many moons have risen and set since the last time that the Footloose Forester was in the mood to write a chronicle that belongs in the Humor genre, with an unstated theme of “you just can’t make...

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   The Horrors of War   Many military men and women who return from war are reluctant to talk about it but there have been enough stories and brief flashes of graphic descriptions that have leaked out or escaped from their...

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  On the road…again!!!Afghanistan to ZambiaChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Circuit Rider   The flashes of memory that have heretofore been confined to the Chronicles of a Footloose Forester are getting pretty hard to handle as potentially interesting stories.  This one is quite tentative because the Footloose...

It was the year 1996, principal came to address the class and he also introduce a new comer . We completed a year in the school though it was not easy not for us but for the school to handle 30 notorious first timers in school . But they did it...