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My Hero

By: Wild One

Last year my family and I went camping in a canyon along a creek. It’s a place we go quite often. River rock fills the canyon floor, salt cedars line the bank, quail run through the wet sand of the low water line, and desert bighorn make several appearances to quench their thirst. The slick orange brown cliffs running along each side of the cool flowing water hide haul trucks and heavy equipment of the copper mine just on the other side. You would never know several small towns are just a hiking distance away.

And you would never see the heavy dark clouds of a monsoon sneaking up on you.
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Peeping Goes Both Ways

21 March 2013 / Wild One / Comments Off

As a child, I spent a lot of time camping, fishing and hunting with my family. During the summer we spent nearly every weekend at the lake. We usually camped with aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins.

Starting at age three, all the kids and I had binoculars too. We didn’t have kid versions. My grandfather always got us the real deal along with real pocket knives and fishing tackle.

In the afternoon it got too hot on the lake in a boat. This is when my father, grandfather and uncle would set up lawn chairs and sit with their binoculars. As kids we thought they were watching boats to see who was catching fish or what kind of ducks were swimming in the cove, but what they were really looking at were girls across the cove.
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It’s The Thought That Counts

21 February 2013 / Wild One / One comment

If you spent a ton of money for Valentine’s Day, I’m here to tell you that you may not have had to do that for the holiday or any day.

It truly is “the thought that counts.”

My ideas won’t work for everyone. There are females out there who are very materialistic and want big or pricy things. If you feel comfortable enough in your relationship to spend $60 to $120 on a dozen roses, you probably know her well enough to know this is what you want and should do.
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The Car, The Man, The Myth

17 January 2013 / Wild One / One comment

I walked outside Macy’s at the mall and headed to my car. I started to step off the sidewalk as a sleek, candy apple red Corvette with shiny wheels and dual exhaust drives by me.

I watched the Chevy turn down the 50 yard line parking row and pull into a space midway back and away from the pack of parked cars closest to the store. It made sense because a car like that shouldn’t be near anyone who is going to bang doors or shopping carts into it.

My imagination begins to take over and I see things in slow motion. Bright sunlight is shining directly on the car, like a spotlight on stage. I hear faint dramatic music playing in the background as the door opens.

A jet black combat boot with thick soles steps out onto the ground. As the door opens more, I can see black framed sunglasses and a black leather jacket. The tight white t-shirt slides across the tightly ripped abs as he stands and turns to close the door behind him.
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Nothing Hotter Than A Woman Firing A Weapon

20 December 2012 / Wild One / Comments Off

One morning I was watching NBC’s Today Show and there was a story about an Olympic gold medal skeet shooter. A friend of mine said, “There’s nothing hotter than a woman firing off a weapon.” And it made me think…….

I used to go camping on the San Francisco River in eastern Arizona. One of our traditional events was trap and skeet. We used to follow a dirt path to a high bank of the river where we would throw and shoot clay targets across it. It was a game. The 20 gauge shotgun held three shells. You got three chances to hit your target. The loser had to carry the launcher back and it wasn’t easy. It was a metal thrower mounted on a tire.

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Taking A Holiday From Relationships: It’s A Zoo

15 November 2012 / Wild One / One comment

By: Wild One

Let me start by saying I’m not good at relationships. Not one bit. That’s because I don’t want to change for someone. And I guess I can find the drama someplace else. Like when I take my family to the zoo.

I decided to take my nephews to the zoo for a Halloween event.

What I didn’t realize was everyone else in town decided to do the same thing.

First, there is no arrow on the traffic light to get into the parking lot which is on a major busy street. While sitting in the turn lane for the fifth straight red light, my brother-in-law called to tell me to not even try to park at the zoo. “Go towards the baseball field and try there.”