THE ADVENTURES OF JJ PICKLETOES

I have been wondering.  Have you ever wondered about it?  If I have been wondering about something, perhaps other people have been wondering about it as well.  What is that analog clock all about anyway?  There are 3 hands, that go around and around and around, and around all day…

Where did you get to play when you were young?  Grandpa says that he never got time to play when he was young.  He was raised on a farm in the 1970’s.   There were cows and pigs and horses to feed.   There was grass to cut and wood to chop. …

  I was wondering.  What do letters and pliers have in common?  Probably nothing.  Really,   I was wondering.   How am I going to get those letters off the front of the dishwasher?  . Will I have to use a wrench?  Will I have to use pliers?  Will I have to…

If you are on the top of it.  They call it, “The Channel.”  If you go under it,   they call it “The Chunnel”.  You know what I am talking about.  The English Channel.  There have been 2,428 crossings of the English Channel by 1,881 different people.  I am talking…

The days are hot.  Really hot.  The nights are cold,  Not so cold, but cold enough.  . It is a small price to pay.  I am crossing this desert mountain range for just one reason. . Let me introduce myself.  I am El Senor JJ Pickletoes,  Most people call me…

  We set out in our wagon, that morning, like the settlers from the olden days.  It was a clear hot day so we didn’t expect that anything would happen.  We thought we could make it down the back lane and across to the Park if everything went well.  If everything went well.  Does anything ever…

There is a tree.  In their house, but I will get to that in a bit.  Last week you know that my parents were away.  In the last couple of weeks, I had some adventures of my own.  Right here in the neighbourhood.  In one of my Grandparent’s neighbourhood.  One morning we went walking down…