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Routine Standard Time Conundrum

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Mike Slickster

All the clocks in the household: the digital alarm in the bedroom, clock on the stove and dining-room wall, stereo system, thermostat and wrist watches—a couple of which need to have their batteries changed, not to mention those in the … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged air-conditioning, analog telephones, batteries, bitching, cellular phones, chimes, clocks, CMOS battery, color television set, computer, conundrum, COVID-19, daily cases, dark ages, Daylight Savings Time, desktop computers, Eastern Standard Time, electricity, furnace, Halloween candy, instruction manuals, jewelers, kids, mainspring, motherboard, necessities, pandemic, personal tradition, phone company, remotes, routine, shtick, social-distancing, standard time, The Rolling Stones, Time Is On My Side, trick-or-treaters, twitter, utility, wind up, wizardry, wrist watches | Leave a comment

Happy Autumnal Equinox In Advance!

Posted on September 20, 2020 by Mike Slickster

The dead body was still warm. Seething maggots waited to devour it, attempting already to fill the corpse’s void with their appointed morality, utter contempt and blatant hypocrisy. The preceding would make a great lead-in for a horror story, a … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Autumn, autumn foliage, autumnal equinox, back burner, big lens, birds, contempt, corpse, dead body, dearly departed, Delaware River, devour, disrespect, ditty bag, exercise, facebook, favorite season, flickr, furnace, haunts, hoodies, horror story, hyperbole, hypocrisy, landscape, lazy bones, loving it, metaphor, mike slickster, moniker, morality, Mother Nature, no respect, novel, paints, palette, peregrine falcons, photographer, photography, pinterest, rants, Rodney Dangerfield, smartphone, Spring, summer, the kinks, tirade, twitter, unmasked man, vampiric, void, Well-Respected Man, Winter, youtube | Leave a comment

When the Frost Is On The Pumpkin

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Been waiting for the first frost of autumn. It hasn’t hit us yet, but many areas around here have experienced it already, which officially ends the growing season for them. My furnace has been turning on lately, though. The photo … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Autumn, Barbara Eden, Bridgeport, bush roses, celebrities, cement pond, changing foliage, Chester, Coady, cooper, crush, dead, death, Delaware, Delaware Memorial Bridge, Delaware River, Delaware River Basin Commision, demise, dillydally, documentary, Donna Douglas, Elly May Clampett, fall colors, filming, fire wood, firewood, flowers, forgotten, frost, furnace, Glen Foerd Estate, growing season, I Dream of Jeannie, interview, Logan's Garden, Neshaminy State Park, New Castle, NJ, Northeast Philadelphia, PA, peak, Pennsville Township, Poquessing Creek, pumpkin, RIP, rising sea levels, road salt, rose garden, roses, runoff, salinity, salt line, Sarobia, scientist, social media, Spring, tree, trending, twitter, Tyler, vicinity, walnut tree | 4 Comments

Better Late Than Never

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Mike Slickster

The furnace went on last night for the first time since last spring, a welcoming sound for the way autumn is supposed to be. The overnight low went down to 44°F/7°C in Andalusia and hit below freezing in the Poconos. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962, 2000, American League, Andalusia, Atlanta, Autumn, bad luck, baseball, big apple, bronx bombers, Brooklyn Dodgers, convertible top, Dem Bums, diatribe, dinosaur age, division series, Dodgers, fall classic, Ford Fairlane, frost, furnace, Giants, guilty, hometown heroes, hoodie, Houston, Indian Summer, intercom system, kindergarten, late, Los Angeles, Mets, mom, mum, National League, National League East, Nationals, never, New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, New York Yankees, NJ, Paramus, philadelphia, phillies, Poconos, pumpkin, Rayco, San Francisco, slide, Spring, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Twins, tyke, vinyl window, weather, Whitey Ford, World Series, Yanks | Leave a comment

Ode to Philly’s Cyclone Alley

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Don’t know whether to blame the weather on climate change or not,That’s a politically sensitive issue like if we should legalize pot;The left says yes and the right says no,But does anyone really know which way to go? Those nasty … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged adult male, alarm, alerts, bad, Bald Eagles, blustery, body, camera, clapped, climate change, clings, clothes, clouds, cooper, cyclone alley, Delaware Valley, deluge, fear, flash flooding, furnace, golf-ball-sized hail, hay, heat, hottie, humidity, hurricane, issue, July, Lake Luxembourg, leagalize pot, left, lightning, lion, love, March, National Weather Service, nor'easter, Ode, parched mouth, pavement, perspiration, philadelphia, philly, Poetry, politically sensitive, pour, quiz, rain, rainy day, raucous, rave, rhyme, right, roar, Rock You Like A Hurricane, sad, Scorpions, Severe Tunderstorms, severe-thunderstorm warning, show biz, sliding-glass door, smartphone, spit, steam, sublime, summer, sunny day, sweat, tempest, thunder, tirade, tone, tornado warnings, tripod, trivia, warning, weather, yesteryear | Leave a comment

An Old-Appliance History Lesson

Posted on February 23, 2019 by Mike Slickster

Been living in the same flat for going on twenty-two years at the end of April. This is the longest I’ve stayed in one place, having moved to various locations thirty-nine times previously since birth. That’s a lot of moving … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged 1960s, 1996-97 Philadelphia Flyers, age, Analog tuner, analog TV, apartment, appliances, cold showers, cutoff valves, diatribes, digitally enhanced, dudes, Elton John, Fire, fitting, fixtures, flat, furnace, gas, gas regulator, gourmet baker, history, hot-water heater, housing development, junk pile, keith richards, lesson, masterpiece, Microwave, microwave oven, moving, museum, old-timer, oven, PECO, pipes, plumbers, poster, remote control, rent, rented, replumb, rolling stones, shepherd's Pie, stove, tirades, tweet, twitter, valves | 2 Comments

Back to the Black-Hole Closet!

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Mike Slickster

‘Twas hot and sticky for the majority of the past week, but the furnace went on for the first time this evening since early last May. Autumn appears to have taken effect. What a relief it is that the torrid … Continue reading →

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From the Frying Pan into the Icebox

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Mike Slickster

The furnace went on overnight and this morning for the first time since last spring. Happy 1st October. The anticipated event brought the annual unraveling of the cold-weather quilt from the closet yesterday, to be comfortably utilized until next spring. … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged armchair philosopher, augured doom, calendar, Chef Boyardee, delight, disappointment, doom, eye-roll, food-shopping, Fright Night, frying pan, furnace, gloom, grump, hair-brain preditions, Halloween, icebox, joy, June, music, musician, October, philadelphia, photography, prognostication, quilt, regimen, sanity, September, sleep, Spring, springtime, summer, tirade, wannabe, weather, whinning, Winter | 3 Comments

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Tag Archives: furnace

Happy Autumnal Equinox In Advance!

Better Late Than Never

Ode to Philly’s Cyclone Alley

An Old-Appliance History Lesson

Back to the Black-Hole Closet!

From the Frying Pan into the Icebox

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