People often ask you suppose you’re in our state I have heard girls referred to as tile houses. When I was in our forties, I often got that distinctive nickname, however not any more. Now, I would need a stainless steel form wire to get that distinction. My hubby chuckled when I told him this, […]

Do you remember the first time you fell in love? For me it was a girl named Grace, who was as weird from me as could be. The two of us were a real Romeo & Juliet type of couple. The two of us lived across the tracks from one another, metaphorically speaking. She had […]

Anyone who has cable TV, has entirely watched Forged in Fire, or at least heard about it. People use rebar, stainless steel wire coils, & any other type of metal they can find, to forge knives in a 1000 degree forge. My granddaughter saw the show & continued to watch it every day on Netflix. […]

The home was a fixer-upper, & we knew that going in; Jessie & I had been yearning for a home of our own, so we could stop renting a tiny apartment, & we got our opportunity at a local property auction. For a fraction of what a home costs we were able to purchase a […]

My family regularly kept chickens in the backyard. Just a dozen parakeets or so, enough to supply us with eggs & keep the yard looking well groomed. Eventually I decided that they deserved a chicken coop. This would be more convenient for the parakeets, help them supply more, & better, eggs, & allow us to […]

To me treasure comes in all shapes & sizes! A few weeks ago I was down in the southern end of the state, a few fourths from home, & I found the biggest treasure yet. When people hear the word “treasure” they no doubt conjure up mental images of gold & jewels. In the real […]

In our town, there is a big shortage of rebar & forming wire, & there has been for several weeks You can do things the normal way, or you can suppose outside the box. There is nothing wrong with being “normal” in fact that might be the easiest way to get ahead in life. Normal […]

I got our beginning in the construction supplier when I was 13 & our Uncle Joe hired me to help him build a nuclear fallout shelter. These afternoons we would call it a bunker, however this was 30 years ago, when a lot of people were terrified about the eventuality of nuclear war. Looking back, […]

After a decade of renting one small, crappy home after the next, our partner Jane & I decided it was time to take a risk & make a change. The two of us saved up every penny we had available & went to a local property auction. Our goal was not to find a “dream […]

My best friend just found out that she’s pregnant. The first thing she did after crying on my shoulder, was worry about what happens if there is still a shortage on baby formula. I had to laugh. I couldn’t believe that she had eight months to store some baby formula away. Whenever she found any, […]