Author Archives: Sparky
“Orchid Beach” by Stuart Woods
Copyright 1998 by Stuart Woods. Published by HarperCollins Publishing Inc, New York. This was my second try at a Stuart Woods novel. I hated the first one. This one is considerably better. There is no question that Woods is a talented writer. Crisp dialog, rapid movement of the plot, short chapters. It is really a … Continue reading
TN7 Hop 2 – Wildwood FL to Tifton GA
203 miles, almost all on I-75. Cumulative tow miles: 395. Truck miles: 271. Cumlative truck miles: 463. The extra truck miles were due to the trip to Ocala to have dinner with my son. This hop was about as simple as it gets: get on I-75 (the entrance ramp was less than a quarter mile … Continue reading
TN7 Hop 1 – Ft Myers FL to Wildwood FL
192 miles almost entirely on I-75. Truck miles: 192. Much to my surprise, I exited my Florida home site exactly as planned – 11am Sunday April 11. As always, I held my breath for the first 20 miles, hoping that the GMC would not throw a shoe. It didn’t. Rusty and I made it to … Continue reading
Fort Myers Cemetery
I did some more photographing of headstones this winter, much as I did last winter at Lee Memorial Park. Last year I posted about 1,500 photographs to findagrave.com. This time I targeted the Fort Myers Cemetery, a cemetery of a similar size (about 12,000 graves) but much older. An older cemetery has fewer unphotographed graves … Continue reading
Seventh trip north (TN7) plan
I am about to embark on my first RV trip without Jett. It will be bittersweet. It will be a different experience, for sure. If anything it will be a test to see if I enjoy traveling solo. Last year I had to try to minimize the time on the road due to Jett’s delicate … Continue reading
“Monster” by Jonathan Kellerman
Copyright 1999 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Yes, another book review. I have been doing a lot of reading because (1) it is a pandemic so what else is there to do? (2) my vision, with glasses, is really clear after my cataract surgery making … Continue reading
“Corrupted” by Lisa Scottoline
Copyright 2015 by Smart Blond, LLC. Published by St Martin’s Press, New York. This is billed as #3 in Scottoline’s “Rosato & Denunzio” series. Well, she must have reset the counter after Denunzio became a partner because there are a whole bunch of Rosato books that precede this one. For those of you not familiar … Continue reading
Seconds, please
This was a week of seconds: a second COVID shot and a second cataract surgery. First, the first second. The second COVID dose was administered efficiently – I was back home 50 minutes after I left. The reaction again was severe muscle aches, but this time the aching lasted just one day instead of two. … Continue reading
“Taken” by Robert Crais
Copyright 2012 by Robert Crais. Published by The Berkley Publishing Group, New York. I have one major complaint about this book and that is the jumbled timeline. There are times when telling a story out of chronological order makes for a better story, but this is not one of them. I found jumping from “6 … Continue reading
Catching you up with my sedate home life
Not much has been happening for the past month at my home site in Fort Myers, largely due to the ongoing pandemic. However, there were a few things worthy of note. First, I took the truck into my favorite local mechanic to replace a light (two actually needed replacement) and, on a whim, asked them … Continue reading