As a rule, I am the sort of fellow that allows people to have their opinions. Of course I will let them know that I disagree with their opinion when I do and that is that. They are also free to disagree with mine. This doesn’t mean that we can’t still be friends. Case in…

It was the first time that Doc was allowed to go out with the two squads as they set up an ambush sight. He had been refused twice before because he had lacked experience and the CO wanted to be certain he could handle the strain of being in the field. The group of 24…

Thank goodness for Hydrocodone tablets. I took one about an hour ago so that I could get past the pain in my left chest and so that I might fall asleep. The pain is gone but I am unable to sleep and I feel as if I am floating in a bag full of popcorn.…

The old washing machine was off-loaded at the dump today. While sitting in my truck, in a long line waiting my turn to pay the man and enter the building to drop it off, it occurred to me, “We American’s are weird because we are so willing to wait in line to pay to go…

Grandpa looked very dapper in his newly steamed and cleaned Stetson cowboy hat. He was standing before his dresser mirror, adjusting his brand new red bow-tie. He was getting ready to go to his first meeting as a new member of the ‘32nd and Denison Cattle and Land Club.’ His grandson Tommy could see that…

My wife is sleeping soundly and I can’t. My back is in rotten pain from a brake I received years ago either in the service or doing something stupid like cowboying when I should have been pushing a pencil instead. Now I have this aggravating cough that racks me with pain from everywhere. I had…

With the weather turning nice in the Truckee Meadows I am more inclined to wear a kilt out and about these days. I have sticking to a specific tartan because I am more American than anything else, which does tend to screw up the argument for wearing a kilt in the first place. The last…

The wheels of justice are slow turning and often grind a person to pieces anymore. That of course is my cynical opinion of our legal system. And today I had the opportunity to watch it in action, not as a spectator or defendant but as the guy asked to stand up and speak for a…

Well, the repairman came to the house on Monday and for nearly a hundred bucks declared our washing-machine dead. So this week we’ve been wearing all of our clothing until today when all the dirty clothes hampers were over flowing. I took Kyle to school and then headed for the Laundromat. As a kid we…

Tommy and his son Kyle went for a weekend dig. It was a university-sponsored event and Kyle found a Chinese coin dating to the late 19th century. The head of the operation said that he could keep the find since they had over a thousand of them from the site. Kyle was very proud of…