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My son announced this morning that he had three Church Sundays before dying. After getting past my willies I asked him why he thought that and explained that he had thousands and thousands of weeks before he had to worry about that. He seemed satisfied for about ten silent minutes then announced that [...]

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While sitting around the livingroom was nice, and dinner with the family was delicious, I really felt like I didn’t celebrate my birthday at the level I would have liked to. I’m not sure why I feel this way, but I do.

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Unfortunately this means that all the frozen water sitting nicely above the ground is only a few degrees away from melting and turning the top few inches of my soil into ugly useless slippery mud. I have started trenching the back behind the barn so water has a place to go, but I am [...]

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I woke up at 3:00 AM suddenly. It sounded like my son Nicky was crying, but after holding my breath and listening for a few minutes I realized that the rhythmic cry was actually a rhythmic snore from my lovely wife. I got up anyhow and visited the bathroom. Afterwards I couldn’t [...]

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You know you have had too much emotional turmoil over the weekend when you just can’t wait to get back to the office. Alex’s seventh birthday was Sunday and we took sixteen of his buddies to see ‘Night at the Museum’ to celebrate on Saturday. Don’t do that. It sounds cool, and [...]

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Let me tell you – there is no way that 5 out of thirty shots (with a scope!) can be considered anything less than pathetic. I’m still sleeping at night by convinving myself that the scope hasn’t been dialed in and that I am still getting a feel for the trigger pull. On [...]

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What a wonderful redneck week I am having! Last night I took home my new rifle (.22LR) AND installed my tractor tire chains! Yes chains and rifle in one night! I cleaned the barrel but it was too dark to put any rounds through it last night. I will march my [...]

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Well today is the first day of the new year, and I am excited about the opportunity to take a look at the things I want to change in my life.  I know, I know, you can do this at any point in time.  There is truly no reason to wait until the new year [...]

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