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Mr. Black

I don’t know what people are thinking when they load an unwanted pet in the car and travel out to the countryside, open the door and then drive off, leaving the poor little feller alongside a strange road never to be seen again. What kind of person can have no conscience about an act such as that? I’ve never understood it, but I know it happens all over the country.

Happy 4th of July!!

I’m thankful — for our country and our freedoms, for friends and family, for good hoses, and for the metal roof I had put on the ranch house a couple of years ago

My First Old Car

My first old car was a 1941 Willis Jeep, Army version. This was in the early fifties, a short time after the war, and there was a glut of surplus items of all kinds, so my Pop soon located what he thought was the perfect vehicle for a son with a bit of a wild side — a surplus Army jeep with 4-wheel drive.

Spring Is Coming

I can see the Indian paint of wildflowers waving in the wind on the meadow out from the porch already in my mind. Can’t wait.

His Mark is Here

I guess I’ve always had a respect for and been a lover of the past…times past, and things made for a purpose in times past. So, there it sat, the remains of that old smoke shack, pieces of corrugated tin, with smoke hole and all, in my FRONT YARD!!!

The Three Toms

Although we are all very different animals, we have found an interest, no a fascination and an appreciation in how different we are from each other.