'Most everyone around here called it the Plankway, a slight widening of the little creek meandering through Gum Swamp, our small corner of the Great Pee Dee River Swamp. The old plank crossing had rotted away long before our Tom and Huck days. A mule and wagon could easily ford the small...
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Last Dog Story(?)
When we left off in early 2005, Bubba had gone to Dog Heaven, I had retired, and now we had only one dog again. Buddy had turned into a beautiful animal, a Yellow Lab/Golden Retriever mix--the coloring and build of a Lab and the longer, wavy hair of a Retriever.
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Third Dog Story
Not long after we started spending weekends on the farm in 2002-2003 cutting and clearing, Bubba came along, a short-legged beagle-ish mutt with an infectious smile and a crippled hind leg. Before we could get the car unpacked into our travel trailer/weekend hideaway, we could see Bubba coming up the farm road from my...
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