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Fair ~ Feels like: 6°F Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 |
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www.rv-camping.orgPosted Monday, February 6, at 6:19 AM www.rv-camping.org is an informational website devoted entirely to RV camping. The reason I bring this up is it's my shameless self-promoting blog about a new Nebraska business. I may get in trouble with the Gazette, but what the heck... nothing ventured, nothing gained...
The Blaze I imagine most of you know there is a top ten list of just about everything imaginable available on the internet. There are top ten lists of foods, travel destinations, old cars, new cars, trucks, SUVs, ATVs, dogs, cats, boats, and I bet even a top ten of antique tractors...
Today was one of those really crappy days... I lost my friend. He wasn't all that old, though if you think in dog years, he was well over the hill. I had to have my dog Casey put down today... one of the hardest tasks in life if you ask me. Here I sit with tears streaming down my cheeks, but I know in my heart it's all my selfishness and he is without pain...
Happy New Year! I'm glad last year is behind me and hope this new year improves from it's rather crappy start. My year ended with my mothers health taking a dive, my father-in-law being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and the IRS after me for my hobby web site making too much money to be considered a hobby...
It's true, Christmas is different here in SW Nebraska. Most folks around here are not pushy in the stores, genuinely smile when your eyes meet, and once you get a few miles outside of McCook, just about everybody driving down the road will give you that one finger wave we seem to be good at. OK, so we wave when it's not Christmas too, but the point is people act differently here towards each other than in most other places I've been, and Christmas seems to make it even more notable...
Tomorrow is our 3rd anniversary of buying the farm(stead). I've been thinking about a 3 year blog for a couple days and was having little success when I got the following email. Fortunately, it's much better than anything I could have come up with.....
Last night had me watching an old favorite movie... "It's A Wonderful Life". I suppose most of you have seen it, if not you should find a way. It's the life story of George Bailey. A small town guy with big dreams to see the world. Not unlike many of us I'm sure, George has his plans sidetracked time after time by circumstances beyond his control. It's also a story of how good seems to counter bad...
Special Thanks It's nearly 3 years since we bought the farm(stead)now so I don't feel like much a city slicker anymore. So from a former city slicker, my most sincere thanks to all you farmers. I've learned since we moved here that farmers are really special folks never given enough credit in my opinion...
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all familiar with... a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish, and a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known are.....
We just returned from a very quick trip to western Pennsylvania... 2400 miles round trip. We took I-80 for the most part going, and several different interstate highways and side roads on the way back. For me, this was my first trip back east since I was 15. I can't compare traffic to any previous time but I will say this... people that have to drive the super slabs of the east deserve hazardous duty pay...
Vets Loved Him! There are hundreds of great veteran stories that I could share, but how about a story about one of the guys vets loved? I offer the following video.....
Master Player To send you off on the weekend, I offer the following video of a fellow I think is a master player. Have a great weekend everyone. Sound would be good here.....
I received the following email and at first read seems like something worth discussing so here ya go... .......... Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling: "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election...
Pro football fans get pretty wound up about their teams. In Denver, the Broncos have made a change that fans and many sports pundits have been calling for since the season started. It's Tim Tebow time! If you have your head buried in the sand, Tim Tebow was Denvers #1 NFL draft pick last year. The kid came out of the University of Florida where he won a Heisman Trophy and quarterbacked his Gators to two national collegiate football championships...
We've had a lot going on around the farm(stead) lately and I havn't spent any time thinking about a blog. I have been watching with amusement the blog articles in the Denver Post about the Broncos and their quarterback controversy however. Last weekend was lousy for Husker AND Bronco fans. Wisconsin wasn't very hospitable to my favorite football teams, but out of the ashes comse a bit of humor in the form of a picture, and some positive email to pass on.....
Wheelin' With The Neighbors I've mentioned now and then that occasionally our closest neighbors have been cows, so that's how I get away with the title of todays blog. Additionally, long time readers of the City Slickers know that I'm a Jeep guy. Well I got a got a link to the following video... The blog title makes some sense don't you think?...
The old TV crime shows sure were a lot different than today's crop of "entertainment". Broaderick Crawford as the gruff Dan Matthews of "Highway Patrol", and Jack Webb as stoic Sgt. Joe Friday on "Dragnet" are just a couple of the old shows and their actors I recall...
Long time readers of The City Slickers know that I've gone so far as to say that my blood runs orange and blue when it comes to pro football. When my family moved to Colorado Territory from Omaha, I'd never heard of the Broncos. Back then, my blood ran red... I was from Nebraska, Nebraskans love football, and even in early 1968, I figured that nothing could compete with the Big Red for my football loyalty... I was young and I was wrong...
Three-fer Three items from Brian's e-mailbag... "BAIL'EM OUT!!! Back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch, a brothel in Nevada, for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed, and it closed. Now, we're trusting the economy of our country, our banking system, our auto industry, and possibly our health plans, to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey??...
Tomorrow May Not Be There... 9-11 has been on a lot of folks minds and will be this 10th anniversary weekend. I can't offer anything new to comfort the sadness I feel other than the following poem I got in a email... If tomorrow starts without me,And I'm not there to see,If the sun should rise and find your eyesAll filled with tears for me;...
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