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Does Anybody Do Beggars Night for Halloween Anymore?
I heard about Beggars Night (which is tonight) when I was a kid back in the day, but my brother and I never went out the night before Halloween. I think the principal of Lincoln Elementary school (which was torn down many years ago) told us that going out on Beggars Night was not a…
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Jim Whistles “Anchors Aweigh”
I carefully “weighed” the decision on whether or not to whistle another tune, but figured I could make it through “Anchors Aweigh.” The history of the song is interesting and you can read about it here. My dad, John Amos, enlisted in the United States Navy when he was in the 11th grade during World…
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Reblogging “Working on a Simple Plan to Stay Fit?”
I’m reblogging the 2025 post “Working on a Simple Plan to Stay Fit?” mainly because I finally tried the dollar jump challenge again. They should call it the dollar bill jump chump challenge because there’s an easy way to win it. There are variations of it and one involves grabbing your ankles instead of grabbing…
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Jim Amos Whistles America the Beautiful
I found out I can fingerless whistle “America the Beautiful.” You want to crank the volume some because the last part of the video is a picture of the American flag waving in the wind and the wind sound effect is soft. The picture of the sky is from our walk on Scott Blvd near…
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KCCK Shout Outs List Included Jim the Shrink Last Night
I was listening to Ed English doing the KCCK Big Shoes Blues program last night and got surprised to hear him do the archival (really long) Shout-Outs list starting off with Jim the Shrink. The last time I heard Ed do that was on July 24, 2026 when Ed did it. If you don’t know…
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Halloween Skeleton Snake Jokes!
We were out for a morning walk the other day and saw a new skeleton of a snake in the yard where the owners have a lot of skeletons ready for Halloween. This reminded us of the bull snake we saw out at the Terry Trueblood Trail. It was crossing the trail just when a…
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Reblogging “Reading My Old Book in a New Light”
I’m reblogging my post “Reading My Old Book in a New Light” because when I first wrote it, I didn’t know that my former chairman of the University of Iowa Health Care Psychiatry Dept, Dr. Robert G. Robinson, MD was nearing the end of his life at the time, which was in December of 2024.…
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Reblogging “Cryptid Caught on Camera”
I’m reblogging my post from October 15, 2022 just to remind folks of our encounter with an unknown critter that was flipping the drain tile lids in the yard of a house we moved from a couple of years ago. I don’t know why I never thought of Bigfoot before, but it seems obvious to…
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Today is National Ghost Hunting Day!
Today is the last Saturday in September and that makes it National Ghost Hunting Day. While Iowa City is not generally known as a hot spot for haunts, there are a few places in town which you could call a little spooky. These include a place called Gaslight Village and the Black Angel. You can…
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Reblogging “Look on the Bright Side”
This seems like a good time to again point out that this is the day after the first day of autumn. Funny, that’s exactly what I said about the original post in 2022. My forgetfulness about announcing the first day of autumn on the actual first day of autumn is chronic and stable. Fortunately, I…
