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So, how would you have dealt with that ‘nekkid dude?’
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,04/01/23-8:25AM , 1,694 Reads
A couple weeks ago I mentioned in this column that I had been unpleasantly surprised to find a naked man standing in my carport one morning. He was apparently stoned out of his gourd and barely able to stand up, but he was otherwise non-threatening and just asked me repeatedly to “please give me a ride to my home.”
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Dealing with trespassers is tricky
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,03/25/23-11:08AM , 1,212 Reads
Last week I wrote about an unwanted visitor at my home and said that this week I would let you in on why that story belonged on the Outdoor Page.
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- Poarch Creek elder dances the dignified Straight Dance, left. Princess dances the Women’s Jingle at right.
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Pow-wow, fiddles and banjos at Ballyhoo Festival
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,03/11/23-4:03PM , 1,431 Reads
Merriam-Webster defines “ballyhoo” as an extravagant, attention-getting demonstration, and that’s just what the 9th annual Ballyhoo Festival was when the Roaming Parkers attended last weekend.
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Spring plants get a head start in the greenhouse
By PATRICK PARKER - Roaming Parkers
Sat,02/25/23-9:20AM , 988 Reads
A couple of weeks ago when Elise and I got back from our stint in Gulf Shores, Ala., working at Gulf State Park, I started to notice the first blush of spring color here in southwest Mississippi — an occasional parsley hawthorne in a fenceline here or a stray azalea blossom there.
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