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Things I Don't See EverydayPosted Saturday, May 11, at 7:05 PM Like most of Nevada, our corner of the Territory is pretty sparsely populated once you get a few miles out of town. My community was once a farming area, primarily dairy and cotton. With the influx of people in the last 20 years, farming is all but gone around here...
Every state has its own slogan, or slogans. When I was a kid, the Nebraska license plates said "The Beef State". Now Nebraska's official slogan is "The Good Life", which from my experience was pretty accurate. Now Margie and I are in "The Silver State"...
In the southwestern USA, a lot of folks say "Adios", Spanish for "farewell", when they are leaving, and Margie and I have decided to say Adios to Cambridge and SW Nebraska. My very first blog on the Gazette was titled "What Was Brian Thinking?". Here we are again, making a major change in our lives, probably making some in our extended family ask the same question. Margie and I bought a place in the Nevada desert and will be moving in the near future...
From Brian's Mailbox... After living what I felt was a 'decent' life, my time on earth came to the end. The first thing I remember is sitting on a bench in the waiting room of what I thought to be a court house. The doors opened and I was instructed to come in and have a seat by the defense table...
Time that is... where does it go? Its been over a month since my last blog entry and I wonder where the time went. We've been busy around the farm(stead) with what seems like never ending renovations, but my blogging motivation has been completely lacking obviously...
Happy New Year Everyone! YEA!!!!! The "fiscal cliff" may be averted! What a bunch of hooey! I got an email from Senator Mike Johanns last night and you did too if you are on his mailing list. It was his assessment of the work done by the Senate of extending the 2008 farm bill for a year and for compromise work accomplished to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to take effect today... the so called "fiscal cliff"...
Merry Christmas Everyone! 'Twas the night before Christmas and out in the garage, There wasn't a trace of a Honda, Toyota, or Dodge. The presents were wrapped and the lights were all lit, So I figured I'd mess with my Jeep Rubicon for a bit. I popped the side latches and lifted the hood,...
Exactly 5 years ago, Margie and I bought the farm(stead). It's hard to imagine at times we've been here that long as time flies when you're having fun I guess. Now it hasn't been all fun and games, but it has been quite the experience for this city slicker...
12/12/12 - It was a year ago today The Blaze was born. The picture of him shown above makes him look so sweet and innocent don't you think? He is totally in disguise. The reality of The Blaze is he's 95 pounds of wildly energetic puppy. Oh sure, he has his moments of nicety, but the majority of the time he likes testing my patience...
I wonder how close this cartoon is to the truth?
The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn't been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn't hate Christmas, just couldn't find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been falling for the last hour and wondering what it was all about when the door opened and a homeless man stepped through...
Paved Roads With the fiscal cliff approaching, many of us Jeep owners think that paved roads are unnecessary government spending.....
Window Jumpers Black Friday is behind us and already it's "cyber Monday". The shopping frenzy is well underway for gifts to put under the Christmas tree, and shoppers are certainly filling stores according to first reports. I hope this year you will do just the littlest bit of research about where your gifts actually are made before you head out shopping, and make some buying choices based on that knowledge...
I'm Jeepless in Cambridge no more. Our new ride magically appeared in our driveway. I bought "Blackie" (our old TJ Wrangler) new in November 1996, and now 16 years later, "Billy" (perhaps the nickname of our JKU Wrangler if it sticks) has taken up residency. We certainly hope we get the same kind of durability as we got from our last Jeep...
Most readers know that I'm a Jeep guy. I've had a Jeep brand vehicle continuously for well over 30 years... until now that is. My "Blackie" has a new owner, and I'm Jeep-less in Cambridge. It's our summer weather that caused me to make the decision I thought I'd never make. ...
The political ads heating up the senate race in Nebraska recently took a nasty turn when Bob Kerry attacked Deb Fisher about some alleged attempted legal trickery. So I decided I wanted to know a bit more about the attack ads but haven't found out much other than the rhetoric the campaigns are tossing around which seems centered around land law. The best part of my research was that I got sidetracked by an interesting to me story out of Arizona.....
In my past life, I worked on the first voice mail systems invented by AT&T. These things were big, expensive, and had limited capability. But like most things, improvements started happening quickly, and it wasn't long until the original voice mail system was transformed into the automated answering systems we have learned to hate over the years...
First off, thanks to all of you that offered condolences on my mothers passing both online and through the mail. I heard from some folks I never expected. Tonight's NBC news tidbit that caught my ear... something about the Romney campaign, red meat, and rubber chicken for dinner. Seemed to me that reporter Chuck Todd went off the deep end tonight. You would never guess that the reporter is somewhat biased in his reporting... HA!...
It was 1941 and the lady that would become my mother was working for the War Department in Washington DC. She got to Washington DC by way of the Grand Island Business College, after playing first chair trombone for the Ewing Nebraska Tiger band. Her business school training landed her a secretarial position at the War Department where she likely was just one of thousands of clerical people working in pre war Washington...
I'll be happy to share the candidate I'm supporting this election cycle... Nobody. Nobody apparently has a clue as to what we the people expect from our elected officials.Nobody really cares about the unemployment rate.Nobody cares about the federal budget.Nobody is an honest politician.Nobody is completely open and honest with his past education, birthplace, business dealings, income taxes, yadda yadda yadda...
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