ball-park blues

    a couple of weeks back deacon duvall’s wife ventured over to the high-school ball-park to watch the price boys play some baseball.. one’s on the varsity and one is on the junior squad…
    when she arrived in that new tahoo , there was a parking spot left vacant right by the grand stands.. how lucky , [...]

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drop and give me ten….

  i got word today that the grandson marine recruit participated in his first military P.T. test this week… thats physical proficiency training or some such acronym.
   i had to dig way back in the archives of memory to recall what a p.t. test consisted of…. seems to me it’s similar to a civilian iron [...]

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shop local

   recent legislation enacted to inflict determent to unscrupulous meth manufacturers and wholesale dealers , has slowed the cash flow of our local economy..
    laws limiting the availability and quantity of pseudofed  on sale at walmart… restricting the type of container required for purchase of anhydrous ammonia at the farmers supply store… criminalization of distillery equipment [...]

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pan-handlers wearing gold

  government bail-outs of huge corporate financial conglomerates have passed the point of being socialistic in nature…they are ridiculous…obscene… absurd..
    it’s  rewarding the most greedy portion of society with wealth taken from the masses of working class people who struggle to maintain a reasonable existence.. it’s robin hood in reverse…… i’d compare it to a family of four [...]

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puppet perspective

  i missed half of obama’s bed time story last night due to a couple of obvious distractions seated directly behind him….who’s idea was that ?
    that pale green dress of nancy pelosi’s…very appropriate…. reminded me of another puppet , kermit the frog… she kept jumping to her feet and administering the claps for barry at [...]

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liar liar , pants on fire !

   some democrats and most republicans are screaming for roland burris to resign… how about this for an off the wall opinion ?… the pot’s cussing the kettle….
   he’s probably less corrupt than ninety percent of the washington insiders despite his conversations with blago’s brother…granted being a liar and possibly guilty of attempting to purchase [...]

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montague county fruit forcast

   sunday after lunch , i wandered down to the grape vineyard for the annual pruning of the vines…. all good viticulturists know grapes only produce on new growth ..
    after accomplishing that feat ,  i also gave my blackberry vines a military style haircut…then moved on to inspect the apple trees and peach trees… i was [...]

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fall from grace

    nancy and hillary travel abroad in an effort to improve the world image of what once was unquestionably the greatest nation on earth.. we were the premiere industrialized nation , leading all others in steel and auto production.  the world leader in producing wheat and food products for starving nations… the go-to source of aerospace [...]

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ground breaking news

     a gaggle of wild hogs invaded the judges daughter while she was out of town on a business trip… under the cover of darkness , right in the suburbs of town , they entered her garage and consumed  a fifty pound bag of cat food along with five domestic house cats…
     the wild rooters reeked [...]

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rambling ray (slum-dog millionaire)

  chipper was home , after a two week cruise to panama , for a maximum of four days before he became home-sick…. that’s sick of being at home….sick of sleeping in his own bed and all the other things most folks love about being home..
   him and multiple shirts boarded those carbon-footprint motor homes [...]

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