Recent content by dr_slate

More often every year I opened a can of V8 and then remembered to "shake well." I keep an extra shirt at work.

Maybe the only event I rermember from 3rd grade It was mid-morning in Mrs. Lee's 3rd grade class in Seattle. I was sitting toward the back of the class. Mrs. Lee got up to answer a knock at the classroom door. She was outside of the room for only a minute or so -- but when she returned, her...

Well, a guy only gets to make one "first post" -- so mine is about the first S&W I ever shot. This Model 36 came to my dad from a neighbor widow of a good friend. And dad, a WW II vet, gave it to me before he passed in 2011 at 92. Some folks keep the first dollar they ever made, I have the...