Uncle Gator's Kiawah Adventures

Over the years, one would think that beach time would change, but 6 is here to tell you that no matter which beach one visits, or where or how one sits, the beach is the beach, be it 1900 or 2025!  First, 6 cannot really go back to 1900, but 6 can go back a long way! Let’s start with 6’s first trip to the beach! It was long ago, and far way. We all loaded up it the family truckster long before the sun appeared in the eastern sky, rolled down the window and headed for the mistake on the lake. Yes, 6 know that a lake is not an ocean, but when one is a little rascal, sand, waves, and water as far as the eye can see is the definition of a beach! We arrived, and opened our trunk, and began to unload our beach paraphernalia. Yes, we had no  Yeti coolers  they were not invented yet, but we did have a Stainless-steel  Coleman cooler.  In retrospect they both performed the same function, with two major differences! One was made from good old US Steel, while the other is ...

Since we are in the middle of 4 th  of July, 6 was took a few moments away from Gun Smoke, Banna, and all of 6’s all time favorite shows, and sat back thinking about the good old days!  As you all know by now, the uniformed think 6 lives in a fantasy world, all by 6’s lonesome. But out of that void, come some sparks of brilliance, given words reflecting the   realities of life. Meditate on this: Proceedings remain consistent, the eyes that interpretate the proceedings are in fact the veracity of that change.  Follow this: 4 th  of July celebrations! 6 is not going to fucus on the importance of the day, but on the proceedings. Way back in the dark ages when 6’s was a little one. the  We started by going to the BLVD for the annual parade. (it’s no wonder why today 6 doesn’t like parades). Miles of fire trucks, police cars, and hard candy being tossed by the township Gov’t officials into the vast crowds of adoring peasants. At that time in ...

6 knows what all you all are thinking when 6 spends his days in paradise, just sitting back watching shadows in the sand, in 6’s borrowed beach rocking chair. Let 6 tell you something, 6’s expends a tremendous amount of energy thinking of ways to make a buck! As they say, “A penny saved is a penny earned” 6 will add selected smack to that… until it drives everyone crazy! Here is the unqualified truth! 6 is not cheap, but frugal. For the uninformed, there is a vast difference in the two! Being cheap is when one opens their wallet, and moths fly out, being frugal is being imaginative and creative in developing and executing a financial plan.  Here we go! In just one short afternoon sitting on the beach, 6 has developed several things that would help make life paradise just a little more extraordinary, while 6’s increases his fixed income. Problem: What do people do on the beach? As we all know, they sit in a chair in the sand under some short of sun cover drinking beer scrolling on t...

  As 6 was doing 6’s normal deep deliberations, while sitting comfortably, on the beach in the shade of the  Shibumi  tent and comfort of his  Tommy Bahama’s  lounge chair, the question of life was waying deeply on 6’s massive intellect. Is anyone familiar with the theory of Six Degrees of separation? Simply, it states that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other! For example, 6 bets that all-you-all did not know that six is actually less than 6 degrees away from the Beatles! Yes, 6 realizes that some of 6’s devotees, think 6 takes some liberties with facets of the truth (don’t even think about it 7) follow this: 6 worked with a woman, whose daughter went to school with Nora Jones, Nora Jones is Ravi Shankar’s Daughter, and Ravi Shankar taught George Harrison the sitar. As one can see that is only 4 degrees of separation. The fascinating thing is this theory can apply to life in general. Here is another example instead of people think...

As PVV rapidly approaches, one can not help but change their focus from a hard day of work or a hard day of play. No, matter your state in life, you next step is the same! One must find their Kiawah clothes, dust off the moth balls, and pack them painstakingly for their long journey to paradise! Since this is PVV, by definition a practice run for the big show, it also forces one to make some agonizing decisions. If one actually works for living, these decisions will be nebulous, just one more thing to decide. WELLLL 5 for those on a fixed income whose biggest decision is whether to use peanut butter or almond butter on their toast every lucky morning, getting ready for PVV is a very traumatic event!             6 remembers the day when getting ready for PVV, was a matter of waiting for the 40–45-day mark, logging on to the laptop and buying a ticket, renting a car and finally forewarning “the man” 6 was taking a week off. For t...