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My wife had me stop at the local Grocery Outlet store to pick up an item. This store saves the front parking spaces for handicap parking and has signs up for family parking and eco friendly vehicle parking. As I pulled in I noticed that one of the family parking signs had been replaced with a...

I bought a Remington 700 ADL Varmint rifle last week and I picked it up this morning. In California you now have to demonstrate to a person certified by the state that you can safely load and unload the rifle. He demonstrates the proper procedure using a dummy cartridge and then you have to...

I got the bill from the anaesthesiologist yesterday for the knee surgery I had and he billed my insurance an extra $120 due to my extreme age (70). I sure am glad I was not 80 or 90.

About 20 years ago I was doing some work in the Transamerica Pyramid Building in San Francisco. They have art displays in the lobby. The art on display this time was slices of bread ranging from untoasted all the way to burnt black slices of bread. I told the security guard that perhaps they...

About 25 years ago I was checking an earthquake recorder in an old mine shaft outside of Mina Nevada. The mine had been taken over by UNR and it housed numerous scientific instruments. This time I had a companion and he was running the calibration while I was filling out the field notes. Our...

I have a little Siamese tom cat named Bud. Last night he got his head stuck in the empty plastic bag from a box of Triscut crackers. He likes to raid the garbage can. He panicked and was literally bouncing off of the walls. I knew from experience that if I were to catch him I would end up...

I have had a surgery at the local hospital in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. My wife does not like to drive past it as she thinks it is bad luck to do so. I told her she was just being superstitious. Last December I had a colonoscopy at the surgery center next to the hospital and as I had not...

I attended a joint replacement class at the hospital yesterday and one thing I learned is that they will teach me to give myself shots in the belly. I will have to do this twice a day for 2 or 3 weeks after the surgery. I don’t like needles but I guess I will just have to learn to do it. My...

I have got an ear worm. "Old Man take a took at my life" by Neil Young. it keeps playing over and over in my head. It started last week after being told I need my fifth surgery in 6 years. I turned 70 last year so I qualify as an old man. I know a lot of people reminiscence about the good...

I am only half joking here. I saw my orthopedic surgeon yesterday and he told me I need a knee replacement. He then looked at my leg and spotted a small infected scratch on my leg. He told me that I could have zero infected spots on my leg. If I showed up with even one they would cancel the...

Duck season started 10/24 and I hunted opening weekend. Then I came down with the crud and did not feel like going hunting. I finally saw the light and decided to get a flu shot. The last one I got was when I was in the Army in 1969 and i almost died from it. I swore I would never volunteer...

I was sitting in my back yard this morning with my cat. The neighbors bottle brush plant was full of birds waiting for us to leave so they could have their breakfast. All of a sudden the alarm went out as a small hawk landed in the bottle brush. Man they all started chattering after that...

Against the advice of most financial wizards I paid off my house as soon as I could. Their advice was to never pay off your house so you could get an income tax deduction on the interest paid. I never understood the logic to that. According to them it makes sense to pay a portion of your...

About 14 years ago my friend and I had drawn elk tags for a hunt in North West California. This hunt occurred on private timber land and bordered a State and National Park. We had previously located a patch of grassland in the private holding that could only be accessed by a long hike from the...

My father bought a 7 acre peach orchard in Suisun Valley in 1955. The orchard had a few trees of J H Hale variety. This is a large peach and is the best tasting peach I have ever eaten. I sure do miss them as it has been 50 years since I have had the pleasure of eating one. The Fae Elberta...

I was sitting in a barracks at Fort Bliss Texas waiting to be properly introduced introduced to the DI's. That occurred two days later on the 5th. We were confined to the barracks and were not allowed to wander around the post as we had not been issued uniforms yet. It seems like it was just...

The Morongo Tribe of Mission Indians wants to purchase Colt Holding Company. They are in Southern California. California tribe eyes bid for gun maker Colt

This was a short news item this morning. It showed a quick video of the shotgun and they claimed it was worth as much as $95,000. The MSRP for the gun is actually around $8,000 which is still a chunk of change. They did not say what his intentions were but he did manage to knock one police...

I tried to order some tru oil this morning from both Midway and Cabelas and got the message that it can not be shipped to California. I am speechless.

This is the story of two of my friends whose houses caught fire in the middle of the night. Neither one had working smoke detectors. They both lived alone. My friend Dan perished in the fire. The cause of death was accidental smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning. His body was...