Desert Reflections

Ever buy it, make your own pizza back in the day, 60 years ago?  I did.  Don't recall how I and others in rural Minnesota even became aw...

 Circa 1960, typical family farm in Minnesota: 40 cows, 30 pigs, 50 chickens, 200 sheep.  And, what do all those critters produce?  You got ...

Finally, we have dependable internet and wifi so I can start posting again. We were in Boise in early June, took a 3-day break from travelin...

 On Thursday, the Arizona coordinator for the Quilts of Valor Foundation, presented me with a Quilt of Valor.  A Vietnam vet herself, Jennif...

The projects.  When city folks hear that, they think of infamous low-income housing complexes, often hotbeds of crime, illegal drugs and gan...

Once upon a time, in a far away land (Africa) there was a king who lived in a grass house.  It was a marvelous grass house, two stories high...

  Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.   Winston Churchill    It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of t...