I live about three miles from where I grew up. Everything is very similar in both places. Pine and birch trees, sandy soil, weather is the same but over the years there have been some changes that I have seen and can't explain or understand. As a pre-Onescore I spent...
Tick-Tock
The recent Greenland discussions brought back some memories of old. Years ago, about seventy or so, my two brothers and I were in the army. In 1957, Bob, the oldest, was stationed in Panama, keeping shipping safe between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. I was on my...
Enough?
D’awwwww
[Previously - Part 1] After changing the bathroom light from fluorescent to LED it was decided (by Mrs F) that it would be nice if I changed the pantry, the water room, and laundry room lights to LED. Then it was suggested that the downstairs living room lights could...
Fiat lux
A little off the top.
Home.
Another episode of the “If You Want Something Done Right” series.
DIY.
“It just goes to show ya. It’s always something. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.”
FourScore discusses end-of-life planning.
Our intrepid geezer frustratedly discovers that there is no longer something called a phonebook, and suffers other indignities of modernity.
Venerable Glibs author Fourscore takes us on a shopping trip with his Missus.
FourScore reminisces about deer hunting.
To Reload or not Reload? The question every person that enjoys shooting faces is it worth reloading my own ammo? What will I save? How much does it cost to get started?
As we get older we find that much of the stuff we have accumulated doesn’t seem to have as much use or enjoyment as it once did.
A long, long time ago, in 1967, a Not So Young Soldier went off to war, believing in the cause as it was explained at the time by our leaders…
When I was a teenager my folks bought 80 acres in north central Minnesoda, heavily wooded with a few acres open. Sandy soil, perfect for growing pine trees, not so good for farming.
Even an old boy never forgets his first gun, his first car or his first girl friend. That .22 has outlasted a number of cars and girl friends and still works as well as the first time I saw it.
Choosing a gun is a lot like choosing a girlfriend or a wife. We want one that we consider to be attractive and we want one that will perform all the functions required, flawlessly. Beauty, of course, is an individual definition and a plain lady can be totally satisfactory when it comes to performance.
A long, long time ago, fifty years to be exact, I was invited to visit Viet Nam for the second time.
FourScore takes us fishing in Canada.
FourScore takes us to his annual honey harvest, the gathering and processing of the honey, a process complicated by the appearance of a honey-poaching bear.
