This week, when I was walking my usual route from my house on Calion Road in El Dorado and, as I turned down Long's Blow Pipe Road (North Smith Street), I met a Brontosaurus. I guess it was migrating north for the summer. Just kidding. But a big, green, 6- to 8-foot dinosaur in the back of a trailer will catch your attention. Of course, I recognized it immediately. It came from a display on Shepard Street, and it is now resting comfortably at its new home a few hundred yards down North Smith Street, all decorated with a "Happy Easter." I especially liked the Easter bonnet.

Well, since Earth Day just popped up on my calendar, I think I need to forget about migrating dinosaurs, but I guess as I join the push to recognize Earth Day and try to be involved, it is just part of who I am, and it seems that joining the Earth Day push is the natural thing for me to do. I guess I have always been a joiner of good causes.

Yes, I can look back to when I was 10 years old and my mother said, "Where's my vacuum cleaner?" and I must have had a guilty look because she homed in on me like a hen on a June bug. She thought I might have something to do with it being missing. Well, my mother would have made a........

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