A Florida Cracker in the Last Frontier

My Friend by Jimi Hendrix  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpI1on_ixvU When I had found a place for my family to live and I started looking for furniture. Lorrie told me that my oldest son James wanted a bunk bed or loft bed. I looked through Craigslist ads and found a beautiful looking loft bed with a chest of drawers. I sent an e-mail I received an immediate reply. I went over and looked at the bed and furniture and met a very very friendly and talkative guy named Tony. I explained that I would need to rent a truck and he said he could help me with his truck. He invited me to come over to a BBQ. After we moved the bed a week or so later I went to one of Tony's infamous BBQs. Tony does all kinds of BBQ meat: tri-tip steak, fish, shrimp, pork, hamburgers, and all kinds of veggies. I stayed in touch with him and went on a hike with him and his family and some other friends to Archangel Falls near Hatcher Pass. Hiking, especially a difficult hike like this was, is a bo...

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag First let me say picking a song for this topic was hard because there are so many good songs about money from "Money, Money, Money" to "Can't Buy Me Love" to "Take the Money and Run". They are all great songs but the music video for "Money for Nothing" is so memorable and a bit crazy plus that guitar riff is amazing, When I first came to Anchorage I bought almost everything at Fred Meyers but then I had an incident (which is a funny story for another time) where I had to buy more jeans ASAP. I was on my way to American Eagle in South Anchorage. When I close to the mall I saw a sign that read, "50% OFF ALL ITEMS TODAY!". One of the places was a Salvation Army Store and the other was Value Village. At Salvation Army I found my before mentioned $100+ Carhartt  coat for $8 and a plaid shirt for $3. Then I went next door to Value Village and found a Nike ...