Uncle Gator's Kiawah Adventures

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...

You know the other day when 6 was undertaking the daily routine of edification, in an effort to keep his superior intelligence sharp.  One of the characters (Jethro Bodine) 6 follows was talking about gaslighting. The bizarre thing about this revelation was it was being articulated in the early 1960’s, not 2024, even though we (not me) are using the term on a daily basis. This caused me to do a little digging on the word’s origins. It first appeared on the Title of a book in 1930. The plot of the plays was about a man trying to make his wife feel as if she was going insane, he was gaslighting his wife. Since the 1930’s it has morphed in to a political term for deception and manipulation, 6 discounts all of this gaslighting for it is doing nothing more than driving 6 insane! Just another example of how we think the world has changed, but has it? 6 must add is gaslighting to the list of over-used, miss leading, “popular” “New” words: Circle back, Tag-up’s, Galentine's Day, Shrin...

  As 6 relaxes in comfort his rocking chair, shot gun in his lap, jug of corn fixings at his side   and ponders the meaning of life, his thoughts are obsessing on the fact that summing is over and fall has arrived.  Did one ever wonder what 7 and 8 do all day at the beach? It is actually very simple, be it PVV or FFV, their path is much the same every day..  WELLLL 5 , as you well know your day starts by watching TV. The reality is that the, morning would not be complete without the Josh’s acumen on foretelling Kiawah weather.  It is such a challenging vocation, for the past 20 years his forecast is a mirror of the day before. It is kind of like watching the Andy Griffith show, and hoping to see an episode that you have never see before.  6 will give it a shot: Inland it’s It is going to be hot and humid with an 80% chance of rain in the afternoon, possible flash flooding in the low laying areas of the city. The beach’s, it’s It is going...

  One can’t argue that change is unceasing, therefore if we do not change we become nothing but a curmudgeon!  Hold the Phone! Is that really true? For if it were true, 6’s middle name would be curmudgeon, which we all know is a long way from reality. There are countless diverse forms of change. From example: While on Vacation 6 changes his bathing suit as well as his hammer shirt each day, while never changing his PVV or FFV packing routine over the past 20 years (one carry-on suitcase). All you all wonder how can that be? Well it is simple, do laundry every three days. By following this routine, one can pack a carry-on bag, with the added benefit of having a full load of clean clothes and when it is time to pack to leave one has all clean clothes to pack. Now tell one cannot beat that! Call me a curmudgeon all you want, 6 calls this genius!  Now if one would suggest a change to the 3 identical bathing suits 6 has packed for the past 20 years, 6 would call you ...