Bookworm Cowboy's Place

 Lakeland, Florida, USA
Bookworm Cowboy at Fat Jack's Deli & Pub

We Love Music!

We enjoy listening to music from the 50s through the 90s on an MP3 player; from Jazz, Rock, Motown, Rhythm and Blues, Disco, Bluegrass, Country and more. Groups as Bill Haley & His Comets, Four Tops, Paul Revere & the Raiders, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Carpenters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Eagles, Bee Gees, Electric Light Orchestra, Simon & Garfunkel, Jackson 5, Earth, Wind & Fire, Alabama, The Charlie Daniels Band, and more.

We Loves to Read!

I’m a bookworm and despite being an avid reader, I find our local library system inadequate. It’s a relief to own an e-reader; Amazon makes it simple to find whatever we want to read and download it to our Kindle Fire HD 10 Plus Tablet. Then we can unwind with an excellent book on our porch, enjoying the Florida weather. We admirer the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, Howard Lovecraft, John Bunyan, C. S. Lewis, H.G. Wells, Robert Howard, and a host of others. Learn what we're reading @ Goodread.com.

We Love Classic TV Shows or Movies!

Our enjoyment is limited to classic TV shows and movies from the 50s through the 80s, the good stuff. Shows like Bewitched, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, Mister Ed, Hogan's Heroes, M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple, All In The Family, Sanford and Son, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Love Boat, etc. Police and Detective Shows as Dragnet, Perry Mason, Ironside, CHiPs, Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five-O, etc. Sci-Fi as Star Trek, Stargate SG-1, etc. Today’s selection of TV shows and movies SUCK! This is why it was easy to ditch cable and free over-the-air TV. We utilize either a Roku or a DVD-Blu-ray player to skip irritating commercials. View our profile on IMDb - Click Here.

Join The Fun of Online Gaming

Enter the realm of multiplayer gaming. Our favorite games include Minecraft, World of Tanks, World of Warships, World of Warplanes, Rocket League, Grand Theft Auto Online, Sudoku, Lichess.org, Lidraughts.org and Avakin Life. We’re big fans of watching our favorite gaming streamers on Dlive.tv, Twitch.tv or Storyfire. Feel free to challenge us to any of the above games, contact us. Learn more from our Multiplayer Gaming. - Click Here.
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Product Reviews—Yeah, Right!

Have you noticed hundreds of products on mainstream e-commerce sites with an unusually small amount of reviews while they claim it's a bestseller? How can it be true, unless they're censoring the customers' reviews. Yeah, when we attempted to write product reviews in the past, we got flagged as fake. Meanwhile, there's hundreds of fake reviews that seem to get posted, making it hard to make a decision. Today, we'll never write reviews on these mainstream sites and go where people congregate like social media, video streaming platforms, etc. Yeah, go where the people read, post, repost or make videos. Learn More...
Product Reviews—Yeah, Right!
CB Radio
CB Radio

CB Radio was the Original Free Speech Social Media Network

Before Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Meta Threads, Twitter, or 4chan. CB Radio was the original Free Speech social media network people used throughout the United States and other parts of the world. People would give smoky reports, traffic and weather advisories, give directions, cut up and men loved to report about the fine-looking beavers; especially if the ladies were driving convertibles and the men jokingly claim to be driving by to check out the lady's seat-covers; LoL! I and Tutti Cowgirl were both hard-core CB Radio enthusiasts for years. Yep, back in the day, you rarely saw a car, truck or home without a CB Radio. We started when we were young and received our first CB Radio for our birthday. When we came home from school or work, we fired up the TV and our CB Radio; to chat the day and night away with our CB Radio friends from around the world! When we started into CB Radio, there were only 23 channels, and you needed an FCC license. The FCC allowed us to use our father's call-sign of KAVJ-1318. When we left home on our 18th birthday and got a place of our own. Then we got our own call-sign of KBMV-3443. Our CB handle was the Bookworm. People jokingly gave us our CB handle because we spent lots of time reading books and loved to talk about what we were reading. In the 70s, they went from 23 to 40 channels. The need for an FCC license ended on April 28, 1983. However, CB Radio lost much of its appeal because of the development of mobile phones and the internet. Yep, when the Internet came along, we got rid of our antenna's, which were an eye-sore and sold out. You still have a small number who use the CB Radio today, and some have tried Amateur Radio. However, Amateur Radio is suffering the same fate due to the development of mobile phones and the internet. In time, both hobbies will fade away into history as more people fall in love with the Internet.
CB Radio
CB Radio
CB Radio
  • Breaker one-nine! is a place to talk about CB radio: how to use them, how to install them, and how to get them working their best. Drop in to rag chew or just come check the mail. Either way drop by and say hi. That's a big 10-4, good buddy!!!
  • General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS) is a North American land-mobile FM UHF radio service designed for short-distance two-way communication. It requires a license in United States but can be used license-free in Canada.
CB Radio
Why We Cut It off!

Why We Cut It off!

Today's TV shows and movies SUCK and why it was easy to cut the cable. We quit viewing over-the-air TV. I use a Roku or a DVD-Blu-ray player to avoid annoying commercials. We turned off obsolete AM and FM Radio to have more choices in music and listen to a variety of podcasts online. I ONLY love classic TV shows or movies from the 50s, 60s, 70s and the 80s; the good stuff. We enjoy content like The Beverly Hillbillies; The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy, Green Acres, Andy Griffith Show, The Mothers-in-Law, That Girl, The Saint, I Spy, Peter Gunn, One Step Beyond; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Charlie Chan Movies.
You can purchase virtually anything you love online. So, we have no need for high-priced cable TV with those obsolete cable channels. I love being able to choose the TV Show or Movies we want to view and when to view it. We get our news and weather from our smartphone or online. We wish the obsolete cable companies would quit calling or writing to us with cut rate offers and focus on improving their Internet services. Yeah, like offering us a good deal on higher Internet speeds would be fantastic!

The Streaming Wars

I consider myself a winner thanks to the streaming wars. I found that since I can’t watch many of the classic TV shows or movies I once enjoyed; I lost all interest in watching them. Since I can’t watch everything I want to watch on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or Vudu; I realize that it’s not that important to watch so much television. So, I canceled my subscription to Netflix and used the money for other things. Because of the streaming wars, I now watch far less television. Giving us time to read more, work on my blogs and I do other activities with our family. So, I’m really the winner of the streaming wars. Thanks to Netflix, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus, HBO Max, Hulu, etc. Plus, we can avoid those annoying commercials and why I'll never use so-called FREE streaming services like Crackle, etc.
The Streaming Wars
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Tutti Cowgirl
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Notable Charities:

 
  • Feeding America is a United States nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies.
  • RIP Medical Debt is a tax-exempt charity that buys and abolishes medical debt. They have helped eradicate over $2 million in medical debts so far, providing financial relief for individuals and families.

      


  • Shriners Hospitals for Children provides specialized care to children with orthopaedic conditions, burns, spinal cord injuries, and cleft lip and palate, regardless of the families ability to pay.
  • Wounded Warrior Project is a nonprofit organization that helps veterans and active duty service members.
Anti Social Club Member

Quotes:

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.""The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."As Walt Disney said: “Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”