Langouste and Turtle Eggs for Breakfast

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Langouste and Turtle Eggs for Breakfast     Without the dreams, conjuring up a chronicle these days becomes more infrequent. Usually, the dreams are only stimuli to pen a chronicle but they contain enough clear...

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Overgrazing, Overfishing, Overlogging

  On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Overgrazing, Overfishing, Overlogging   Chronicles of the Essays variety tend to be purposeful fabrications because they are unlike ones that relate a story, a past adventure, or even a recent dream.  Essays by the Footloose Forester usually...

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Serendipity of the Day

On the road...again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester  By Dick Pellek      SERENDIPITY OF THE DAY    Occasional pictures of huge trees with buttresses on Facebook prompted the Footloose Forester to research some selected literature on Costa Rica in an attempt to put a species name on the most...

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People Who Mattered

  On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Self-Quiz About People Who Mattered   In an exercise of introspection about who and how some people in his life influenced him, the Footloose Forester first started with a copied list of salient issues about categories of...

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Pluggers, Like You

On the road…again!!! Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester  By Dick Pellek   The Pluggers    The Pluggers in life have been my own chosen groupies.  They know that they are not elite, highly skilled, ultra talented, or the fastest runners on the track.  But they know that if they have good...

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An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     An Open Letter to Copilot, With Revisions   My sincere apology to you, Copilot if I have offended your sensibilities.  When in the past I have taken issue with the disadvantages and pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence, I...

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A Solitary Tree is Not a Lonely Tree

On the road...again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     A Solitary Tree Is Not a Lonely Tree   When casual visitors to Internet sites mention planting trees as a useful practice, the whole gamut of their past experience and current expectations may come into their minds. ...

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Forestation in Brazil

On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Forestation in Brazil   The photo credits used in this chronicle are unknown but were copied from Facebook.  My apology for taking the easy way out in re-telling a story about forestation in Brazil.  Some would call it...

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Would You Believe It, If I Told You?

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Would You Believe It, If I Told You?   Would you believe that…a lawmaker in Indiana wants to prosecute doctors who perform abortions?   Would you believe that abortion was legal in the US for over 40 years?    ...

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Playing Bumper Cars Around the Moon

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek     Playing Bumper Cars Around The Moon   It was a bright moon-lit night and the Footloose Forester could hardly look away as he approached the side door to his basement apartment in Auburn, California.  He was probably returning from...

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Eidetic Episodes and Hard-Wiring in the Brain

  On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Eidetic Episodes and Hard-Wiring in the Brain   The link between the word eidetic and the concept of hardwiring in the brain is a marriage of understanding of why humans remember some things and forget other things....

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Floyd Was A Tie Hacker

  On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Floyd Was A Tie Hacker    Charles Kuralt and Bob Simons had a few things in common.  Both were writers who gained their inspiration in places far from the office.  They did not tell me that. It...

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Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek  Lake Tahoe, Silver Dollars, and Piñon Pine   Those halcyon days working as a consultant forester in California in the 1960s salted the memory banks of the Footloose Forester with many, many fond reveries of adventures.  Some jobs were hundreds of...

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On The Map...Again!!!

    On the road…again!!!Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek    On The Map…Again!!!    Maps, mapping, staring at maps, and using them as informative tools have always been integral to a footloose wanderer who usually consulted with them before planning an adventure.  Making a plan to...

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Everyday Science and Math for Foresters

  Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Everyday Science and Math, for a Forester   High school math and science courses are required for admission into forestry schools around the country.  At some stage of their careers, most field foresters will have in their hands various...

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Underwater

  Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   Underwater   The very modern and accurate mapping capabilities found in Google Earth are a joy to manipulate and to have at the ready, anytime the Footloose Forester wants to check out the status of before-after photos of construction...

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Tags and Related Posts

  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...

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Circuit Rider

  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...

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If You Ever Go Across the Sea to Java

Essays, Stories, Adventures, DreamsChronicles of a Footloose ForesterBy Dick Pellek   If You Ever Go Across the Sea to Java   “If you ever go across the sea to Ireland,” the plaintive words of an old but enchanting melody begin. The haunting Irish melody forms your thoughts into dreams as it...

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Rosewood By Any Other Name

Essays, Stories, Adventures, Dreams Chronicles of a Footloose Forester By Dick Pellek    Rosewood By Any Other Name   Most everyone agrees that truth in advertising is a policy that should be followed simply because everyone wants to know what they are getting and to get what they are paying for. ...

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