Did you know emails are still a thing?  I don't mean getting junk mail, or even work emails.  I mean actually writing an email and waiting for a reply?  I think in the last 15 years I have wrote maybe 5.  This week I think I have wrote.... 1...2....carry the 1..... UH..... shuddup, counting is hard!  5! I've written 5 emails.  I also never responded to one, sorry Jon, I should do that after I finish this.  I'll get the fun/concerned one out of the way first.  Since Jon left that Twitter/X/Elon's Money Pit the only way to communicate with him has be ..read more

 Before I begin, I must admit I had a post in draft about a month ago.  It was a "Ranting and Raving" post, that was mostly ranting, and it was pretty long.  I wasn't even maybe halfway done and something came up and I saved it to draft.  The thing is, I don't like saving to drafts, it usually seems pieced together when I come back to it later.  So a couple days later I came back to it.  I had calmed down, and I realized most of my ranting was pointless (and far too political for my blog).  I always say I try not to get too political, but I had a breaking poi ..read more

 I really have to be motivated to do stuff anymore.  Not just this blog, but a couple months ago when I last posted I was started to move stuff around the apartment and figure out the best way to display stuff.  Since then I have moved the furniture, but I haven't been motivated to display the stuff I had to move.  I worry at times I'm too much of a homebody, but at the same time, I don't have much interest in doing stuff.  I easily blame it on the weather or something else, but the truth is long before Covid, I just didn't want to be around people.  Now I don't h ..read more

 I don't know where to start.  The last few months have somewhat blended together, but I didn't think it was that long since my last post.  The worst part is I don't have much to show or really talk about.  I have a couple pictures, but that's about it.  I figured I would do a Ranting and Raving post, but I'm not even in the mood to do it.  I guess since I don't look at my cards or even check out current cards I just don't have much to say about the hobby.  You have figured that out with my last two years of posts, but even now aside from one or two interests ..read more

 If you read my last post you remember me mentioning about doing a refresh on the blog.  If you look at it currently, you'll see that it hasn't happened yet.  There has been a reason for that and it actually wasn't laziness.  A day or so after Christmas my desktop slowed down.  I will take blame for it, but as a result, it became unbearingly slow.  It was around that time that I was already planning on using the Chromebook more, because I planned to use my new Chromecast but the idea was to do a lot of other stuff on the desktop still.  I'm stuck in my own wa ..read more

 I have to call out a fellow blogger.  It pains me to put them on the spot, but sometimes you must.  It's not often someone chides you in a comment on one of your posts.  However it occurred a little over a year ago.  However since its the season of giving, I'll give a couple pictures before I call them out. All my stocking are hung with care! In the last couple months I've found all these pairs of socks at Dollar Tree.  I'm not planning on wearing them, but they look really nice on display, and a nice conversation piece.  The tree may not be a big deal t ..read more

 Another long hiatus, this one wasn't planned.  I was a little busy with a few things and just now got around to finishing up this 3 parts series.  Not much to say, as parts one and two talked about the town history a bit.  Today I will show off the parade and the museum, and the items inside. We'll begin with the parade.  Our town has 2 yearly parades, one at Christmas like most towns do, and one the third weekend in July, which is when the 2 night rodeo is held.  This year we added a third one for one time only.  It was a longer one than the other two (this ..read more

 I didn't plan to wait this long between this 3 post set, but I had a few things to do this week.  Anyways, thanks to all who read part 1, and at the end I posted links to more photos that I posted on Facebook shortly after the event.  The focus on today's post will revolve around the car show, but I do have a few other things to show around town.  I will talk about that a bit and then let the car show photos speak for themselves.  Not much more to intro for this post that I didn't in the last so let's begin. This was actually a bonus photo that I took to show my mo ..read more

For about two years I've been very excited about something.  This past June was the culmination of my excitement.  Since then I have been wanting to make a post or two (or as I found out, three posts) about this event that caused the excitement.  As many of you may know from reading my blog, I'm not the keenest person when it comes to history.  I can mostly get the Cliff's Notes (is that still a thing) version and if I have a bit of interest I'll read more about it.  The computer age has helped me learn more events in history then anything in school ever did (but I'm g ..read more

 If you're a long time reader of the blog (first of all thank you for sticking around), you know two things about me- first I'm not in the habit to write the last few years just to make posts and only when I was in the mood, and second, the fall season is one I tend to write the least.  I didn't plan on not writing for two months, but it happened.  In fact if I wasn't thinking of something to do I probably would have extended that streak.  Just my searching for files did I notice I had some stuff to show and its been a while since I've blogged.  Almost two months, and ..read more