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For Fandango's Flashback Friday: If you've read some of my other posts, you may have heard of the cat I refer to as the "Dread Menace"; this is his back story. In the Beginning I found him as a kitten while living in Ottawa, Ontario. He started life as a combative kitten and grew into …
A typical day for me in the spring of 1965
The damn lagomorphs are coming.
I entered my shop this morning to smell linseed oil, varnish, and wood shavings.
A Flashback Friday presentation from May 30, 2021: It's been a long while now since I got where I wasn't going. But it happened all the time when I was younger. My friend Bill and I'd be dropped off from a ride in some small town by whatever driver responded to our stuck-out thumbs. Typically …
After the divorce, the Gray Menace seemed pleased with my wife's absence. He would hiss at her, and she would whack him with a broom. Not the happiest relationships.
I rapidly discovered that Snowflake liked to ride by the apple orchard, and if we passed by it, the ride was peaceful.
Clancy was not interested in hunting birds; he liked big game animals, chipmunks, squirrels, dogs, and the wayward human.
This comes from April 4, 2021, and is a favorite family story told about my oldest son Nick: This post is about the USS Constitution's sails. But there is a bit of a story that precedes it. My eldest son, Nick, could be a problem when he was young. There was the time, at age …
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A Flashback from March 28, 2022 - we had just received a dusting of snow. It's not about to be inducted into the Winter Storm Hall of fame. And it's not a hybrid monster freakout "caused by Climate Change" event. No, it's just a skim coat of white stuff over my freshly prepared garden beds. …
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