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    What a week!

    Last week was part of my annual vacation-no work all week and I hoped to get a few things done around the house I have been puting off and maybe sneak in a day of detecting.Alas it was not to be..... My first day off a week ago last Saturday we received word that our son was in the hospital...
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    A Squirrel hunt for the ages

    I remember having a hard time falling asleep the night before with the excitement of the next morning weighing on my mind.I was 10 years old that Mid-August night in 1965 and the next morning my dad was taking me squirrel hunting for the first time. I was no stranger to the woods or hunting.God...
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    Tiff is Tough!

    I have in the past, told the story of my paternal grandfather on this forum. He made his living as a lead miner in the deep underground mines of South-Central Missouri. Before becoming a miner he fed his family during the depression days by working in the timber, making props for the same...
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    Woodworking part 1 and 2

    I have always had a love of working and creating things with my hands.I also fancy myself as a competent if self taught gun smith especially old antique firearms that parts are not available for.Over the years I have had some luck and get a lot of enjoyment in repairing and refinishing them.I...
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    Little house in the big woods ? (Part 1 and Part 2)

    Freds post about coyotes reminded me of a few encounters I have had with the critters over the years,I thought you all might want to hear about them. My family and I moved back home to Southern Missouri in April of 1991 after spending several years away.When we came home we were able to buy a...
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    The look

    I never had a sister,3 boys my mother had And though we were full of mischeif,we were never really bad We were taught respect and discipline that didn
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    A crumbling old house.....

    Hi everyone,I hope everyone had a great Christmas.As I visited with lots of relatives over Christmas my mind went back to the Christmases of my youth.I was raised next door to my grandparents on a farm and was very close to them.I wrote this tribute to them.It isn't that good,I havn't written...
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    Reporting for duty General Ray !

    LOL! I just ran across this photo taken this summer.This is a complete Union soldiers enlisted reinactment uniform.Complete down to the hand sewn leather boots and wool socks.I purchased it at an estate sale this past summer and,as you can tell,it is about a size too small for me.I had it on...
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    Hello again Everyone....How I spent the last 6 weeks

    Its been a while and I hope everyone is doing well.I have faithfully read the forum for the last several weeks-keeping up with everyones adventures and have enjoyed reading the stories more than you know..Congrats to Mike and Alice for being wonderful hosts-Sounds like everyone who visited them...
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    My first fishing trip in a couple of years..

    [attachment 7300 fish.jpg]And I had a great time.My son and I went out on his boat in the rain.The crappie were biting and we fished for hours until we ran out of minnows.We caught over a hundred but kept just enough for a fish fry.Nothing huge-the biggest one weighed just over a pound-but all...
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    Breakfast for 15 ?

    As some of you may know,my mother is confined to a nursing home and has been for the last year or so.I try to visit her every day if possible.Over the last year or so I have gotten acquainted with some of the residents who live there. I often spend time talking to a small group of older...
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    Just caught up on some great reading...

    Sunny,glad you got that snake before it got you.Them old water snakes are mean.More than once I have had them run me out of a swimming hole. I loved the photos Fred and Royal posted. Wayne,did you "tip" that nice attendant who pumped your diesel :lol:? Kelley,You have the makings of a great...
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    Just spent $89.00 at the gas pump.....

    2.99 per gallon here.But what the heck,things could be much worse.My heart breaks for those poor people on the Gulf coast.My son works for a co. that specializes in getting power restored after natural disasters.He does very dangerous work often under horrible conditions working within a few...
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    Anyone have a fire engine red convertible for sale?

    If I make it another few weeks I will turn 50 years old next month.:drinking: At about this point in a mans life I have heard that some men begin to wrestle with their mortality and attempt by their actions to "turn back the clock"-(Maybe some of you guys who have already faced this could give...
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    An oldie but a goodie...

    A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears deep in thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes...
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    Its about that time of year for me....

    It all started about with a story my grandfather told me when I was a young boy.A story about a place near our home where train loads of garbage from St. Louis were once emptied and spread on to hundred acre fields to feed hogs.This happened for a period of several years between about 1895 and...
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    A Christmas present from 1965....

    I received this Christmas present from my dad and mom in the mid 1960s,have lost it twice,and just found it again today.It is a large Case bone handled 2 blade folding knife and I was a happy young man when I opened it on that Christmas morning all those years ago! A couple of years after I got...
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    The ramblings of a Hillbilly....

    As a young boy I watched the end of an era of a way of life in the Ozarks. I knew old men who had a few years earlier used rifles and shotguns as a tool to gather the family dinner-women who wove cloth for their coarse clothes. They built their own homes from hand hewn logs and hacked out beds...
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    A mile beneath the earth....The rest of the story...

    The workers worked throughout the night hoping and praying that someone would be left alive to rescue when they reached the bottom of the shaft.A crowd of people from the town also gathered and stayed the night giving comfort to those whose loved ones were trapped...... Along about dawn a...
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    A Mile beneath the earth....

    The area of the Country I live in was first settled in the mid 1700s when early explorers discovered rich deposits of lead.Settlements sprang up and the lead was mined by hand using nothing more than picks and shovels.Shallow pits in the earth are common sights to this day in areas in the...
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