I guess most "bloggers"got with the times and now use Facebook. Duh! The house that was on fire Sptember a year ago was across the street from my home in The Elms and was reoccupied after about 1...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2023/10/huh-its-been-year-since-my-last-post.html
Then I looked again and saw it actually said "WATERTOWN." Maybe he grew up somewhere else.
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2022/09/town-where-mr-obvious-grew-up.html
This was the house across the street from mine on an early hot August afternoon. It was in full flame as firemen began to arrive and try to knock it down. The downwind neighbor took a few photo...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2022/08/um-do-you-smell-smoke.html
It's the last of a piece of chocolote I had with a birthday lunch with my friend Joan Perry in West Ashley at the Euro Foods Bakery & Cafe. The lunch itself reminded me of a meal in Vienna wher...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2022/05/so-whats-big-deal-here.html
Can't remember when I have had such a long gap in the blog I have been writing for 14 years! Well, I could blame COVID! In fact, I DID have to isolate back in August when I tested positive right ...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2022/03/wowi-really-have-neglected-my-blog.html
My local paper, The Post and Courier, has a Sunday feature called MY PHOTO where a submitted picture is selected that best illustrates the weekly stated theme or title. I was telling a buddy ...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-house-cat.html
The 246th birthday of the United States Marine Corps was celebrated last night, a bit earlier than November 10, the original date of the 1775 first gathering. The Hotel Indigo in Mt. Pleasa...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/11/usmc-246-years-and-counting.html
Big happenings here...sold my 2-story house where I lived for 20 years. My Dad had bought an 800 sf elevated house in 1962 and - being a carpenter and cabinet-maker - he added an 1100 sf s...
On August 16, 2021, I was tested at Roper St. Francis Urgent Care on University Blvd and it showed I was positive with Covid. I was in the midst of selling my home of 20 years, vacating the p...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/08/when-positive-is-negative-sign.html
I am totally exhausted. THIS is not what old men should be doing..because it stresses that I AM indeed a stressed old man! My new gated Elms Community has a pool, a gym, out...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/08/very-tired-og.html
So, recently I had a reason to wear dress suit pants for several days in a row and thought "HOW CAN I MAKE MYSELF MORE COMFORTABLE?" Like many others, I have what is unofficially called COVID...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/07/bracing-myself.html
My yard does not care that I no longer use a ladder! It just keeps doing what it does and I am tempted to power up my electric hedge trimmer and whack away. Wiser heads prevailed and a good...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-cut-above-rest.html
As Covid wanes, we are about to be able to "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" again here in Charleston at The Joe and I recall a delightful Mother's Day photo I took a few years ago of my Mom (on ...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/05/speaking-of-baseball.html
Chuck Boyd: Something's Brewing here ... I admit it was on my second visit to Ghost Monkey Brewery in Mount Pleasant that I caught the joke. Looking over the changing menu of freshly-brew...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/05/somethings-brewing-here.html
The BLOGGER.COM people made some changes a few months ago. It affected my ability to easily jot down my thoughts, add a few photos and post it in my collection. A friend came over and showed ...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/04/was-distracted-for-while.html
I am smiling again after receiving my second COVID Pfizer vaccine shot ... somewhat antsy and a wee bit adventuresome. Accepted an invitation from two friends to go where I had not been in more...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2021/03/i-am-smiling-again.html
A good friend gave me an exceptional gift, a slick coffee table -size copy of "MOMENTS - The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographs," by Hal Buell. WOW..what a picture-rich treasure trove to give t...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-classic-4x5-speed-graphic.html
Once the 2-lane 1929 bridge was closed and the 1960s newer 3-lane bridge was deemed out-moded, construction began on the newest 8-lane bridge to replace both of the oldies. I was still ru...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/12/i-ran-outta-bridges.html
My 14-year old blog has avoided getting into national politics but I did just write about a nice benefit of all the clamor, drama, and repetition in the incessant deluge of one-sided, mai...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/11/coulda-been-millionaire.html
As you may recall, a few weeks ago was National Newspaper Carrier Day. YAY.. My brothers and I had done that when we were growing up. I found out a day or two later, so I took the full-page a...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/10/hard-to-express-thank-you.html
I was interviewed by a journalist named John Strubel in June 2007, just a few years after I retired from The Post and Courier newspaper. Stumbled across this today and thought I would shar...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/10/a-blast-from-past.html
Lots of serious discussion going on about voting in the upcoming election. First, mainly the military who were out-of-state were able to use an absentee ballot. Makes sense, they probably would ...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/10/fact-fiction-and-inbetween.html
A few years ago, I bought a newer version of a Canon P/S (a camera called a Point and Shoot) that was light, compact, and small enough to slip into your shirt pocket. A buddy showed me how to...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/10/wait-for-break-in-traffic.html
If the grass in my yard grew as fast as my hair, the bare spots would be covered by now! But, I still am digging up patches of grass - roots, dirt and all - and re-planting them where I want ...
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/09/grass-spreads-at-its-own-pace.html
Just finished my hour on the machines downstairs. I'll rest a bit until Friday...3 exercise sessions per week on M/W/F. I have 3 oscillating fans and a huge shop fan moving a LOT of warm air....
https://chuckography.blogspot.com/2020/09/boy-its-another-hot-one.html