I’m somewhat in disbelief that I’m sporting a short hard cast on my leg. No accident, just a congenital problem with an Achilles tendon being too short. Most of my life, I’ve been fairly athletic playing most sports through high school and later on playing football. I used to have a thirty-six-inch vertical jump, so…
Not sure if I can romanticize about tying a fly, but I do think about it often. I’ve been thinking about it more lately because I ran across my fly-tying box and brought it into the house. I thought, since I was going to be laid up for a bit, I might try to get…
No less than my fourth major surgery in fifteen years, and I’m not sure I feel any better for it, but on the other hand one would have to wonder how messed up I’d be without them. There could have been a fifth, but the doctor said it wasn’t worth the trouble and instead I…
Making America Again, reminiscent to some mysterious previous timeframe when whites overlorded all in this country. Are we not or are we certain it didn’t mean to go back to the political unrest of the sixties? It couldn’t mean seeking the times of Lincoln and the discord then with Andrew Johnson taking center stage upon…
For the better part of my life, when August comes around, I’m locked into really only one thing, college football. Mind you, I enjoy most all sports, but many, I half-heartedly keep up with what’s going on and then get focused come championship. But when the end of August rolls around, I’m fully engaged through…
The other day, my dad and I were driving through our local hometown and coming to a four-way stop. We saw a teenager on a bike riding a wheelie right up to the intersection, all drivers froze wondering what this kid was going to do. All of a sudden, he comes down on both wheels…
Tahoe Days After three days in Washington visiting our oldest son and his family, we headed onto the third leg of this journey. We had such a good time in our visit and although our son was hard at work a lot of time, we maximized our time with him, his wife and our granddaughters….
I’ve said this before on several occasions that Fall or Autumn is my favorite time of year. Like many others, we are happy to welcome cooler temperatures and the colors of late summer, giving way to the vibrant, but dying colors that come from the changing season. Those early colors soon become leaves on the…
It’s been a bit since I wrote last. We have been travelling and spending the holiday season with our kids in two different states. We’ve been driving because we have stuff to deliver, but I’m looking forward to the day of flying and being picked up. Driving 1500 miles one-way is starting to take it’s…
