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SLOcoug

@slocoug.bsky.social
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U.S. history and archiving teacher at Bakersfield High School, local Kern County historian, working in Bakersfield and playing in San Simeon, CA. WSU grad. Go Cougs! EWU grad. Go Eagles! Quaker. LGBTQ+ Ally

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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
$7.94 a gallon. South of Lost Hills on the Lerdo Highway off the 5. Cheapest diesel in the area.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
$7.94 a gallon at the chevron at the lerdo highway and the 5. $116 for 14 gallons of diesel
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I paid $225 for an oil change on a Duramax diesel yesterday.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
$7.85 a gallon for diesel off of the 5, south of Lost Hills, California.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anyone else get woken up at 1:00 am by a family of raccoons playing on their roof? Just me huh?
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
With Trump’s ongoing war against Iran continuing, this is the only instance I can find of an enemy surrendering only after air attacks. But there was an invasion fleet off the coast of Panterrelia and the Nazis were running low on water.
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Operation Corkscrew - Wikipedia
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Summertime is my grandson walking through the kitchen in his bathing suit, grabbing a hand towel off the oven doors and walking out to the pool. Me: “What are you going to do with the hand towel?” Grandson as he gets in the pool: “It’s an eel now.” #summer2026
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anti-Trump stickers hit differently on the California Central Coast. #trumpdontsurf
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
And now he’s back to parks about parks and restaurants. Less than 1000 days before he leaves office.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Anyone watching the Trump cabinet press conference? He’s been rambling about the fountain forever. My god. Painful to watch
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Paid for the cheapest diesel in Paso Robles, California at the low price of $7.49 a gallon. That’s $150 for 20 gallons of diesel. This is not sustainable.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
But it’s not even Tuesday yet!
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I just paid $7.05 a gallon for diesel in Bakersfield, California. My biggest concern is that I might look back nostalgically next week at $7.05 a gallon.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Doom scrolling is on the next level today. We are 60 days into 2026.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Tomorrow is the 39th anniversary of my wife and I’s first date. Our first date was on Friday the 13th but I didn’t leave her house until Valentine’s Day. We made chocolate chip cookies. We were together for 36 years. Cindy passed from cancer in 2023. I miss her every day.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I have a 15 year old bottle of Glenfiddich sitting unopened in my cabinet just waiting. When this event happens, stop by for a drink.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
January rose blooms. I love California.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Can we just start calling them Greenshirts?
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
America changed on January 7, 2026. The video of the shooting in Minneapolis and the federal government’s response as well as the President’s lying post have finally hit the level of outrageous. Now we see how the country reacts.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
January 4,2026: “Whew, what a year this has been! I’m sure everything will improve in 2027.”
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Found an old, empty bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 on the beach after a storm. I miss the 1980’s, but not enough to drink ‘Orange Jubilee’ Mad Dog. It must take like cough syrup.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The two videos are only 30 minutes apart. Taken just north of San Simeon, California on Christmas Day.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
I was fortunate to witness the breach of the bar of a creeks’s lagoon north of San Simeon, California. The heavy overnight rains in the Santa Lucia Mountains had arrived at the coast. The second video was taken 30 minutes later.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
From the front page of the Bakersfield Californian on May 23, 1942. Students ask why people of Japanese ancestry went to the camps willingly. The answer is in this document.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The Bakersfield Californian on May 16, 1942. The people of Japanese Ancestry were already being moved into camps when FBI director Hoover made this declaration.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Why wetlands are so important for migratory birds. There are multiple variety of shore birds cleaning the salt water off their feathers along the Central California coast.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thanksgiving Break has officially begun.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A tribute to someone’s mother named Linda. But for those who know, know.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A simple question for the High Speed Rail Authority: Where are the plans to get the HSR from Bakersfield to Tehachapi? The last meeting - pre-covid - that I attended said the plan was to go under the Tehachapi Mountains. Where are those plans?
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Can we start tapping on the fish tank with a little more urgency?
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
That looks bad! But good!
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
My friends Dan and Lisa helped me re-install the McKittrick Tar Pits marker for the Kern County Historical Society on Saturday. Kern County used to have Dire Wolves and Saber Tooth Cats! I haven't started my 20 year old Honda 2000i generator in 5 five years, started on first pull. amazing
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I purchased a Phillips Home Theater DVD/CD stereo at a garage sale last weekend for $20. Mint. Still in the box from 2006. My garage is now banging.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
My brush with fame: Robert Redford was standing on the front porch of WSU president Glen Terrell's house in the early 1980s. I was walking to class and took a short cut up the president's driveway. Robert was in his bathrobe with a cup of coffee, raised it and said good morning as I passed.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I just added this image to the end of my presentation on slavery to my high school students. Outrageousness is a hourly event with this administration.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
This might be the most random item - other then the clip to a 9 mm pistol - that I have found while walking the Streets of Bakersfield.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Our family was riding around in the truck yesterday and my 4 year old great nephew saw a porta-potty in the back of a delivery truck when he said, “Look! A toilet box!” Our new name for porta-potties.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I guess we can stop saying, “It’s just like 1930s in Germany!” No, it’s 2025 in America.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
We walked on the bridge’s sidewalk over Idaho Falls on the way there, we walked in the middle of the street returning to the hotel. Dang sharks in the Snake River could have gotten us! #jaws
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My sisters and I were kids when our parents drove us to Idaho Falls, Idaho for my father’s high school reunion. While my parents attended the reunion on a Saturday night, my sisters and I walked from the hotel to a movie theater and watched the movie Jaws.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Last week I found a 9mm clip in a crosswalk. Today I found a fishing pole. I wonder what tomorrow’s tide will bring in.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The simple beauty of a low tide. #sansimeon
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The California central coast early in the morning. The only tracks on the beach were pelicans and seagulls. #california
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Over the years, I have found some very random things while on a walk. But a 9 mm Ruger clip laying in the crosswalk? That’s a first. But then again, I live in Bakersfield….
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
above average
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Memorial Day and my wife’s birthday on the same day. I would have loved to have made her a cake and shared it with our daughter and grandson. I miss my Sargent.
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SLOcoug @slocoug.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Coyote, deer and raccoon tracks on the beach this morning. #centralcalifornia #sansimeon
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