I hate to admit this, but I’m really bad at screwing. If you don’t believe me, ask my wife. Okay, I know where your minds went, and get them right back out of the gutter, now! What you were thinking is disgusting, whether it may or may not be true. 😊 I used to say […]
Even though it’s still in the 80s during the daytime here in Arizona’s White Mountains, the wildlife have their own internal calendar. Saturday night, I heard elk bugling. If you’ve never heard the eerie sound of a bull elk challenging other bulls for dominance and summoning cows for mating, it’s a haunting experience. You wouldn’t […]
We had to get up at the ungodly hour of 6 o’clock yesterday morning because we had to be at the trust attorney’s office in Snowflake at 8. We originally formed our family trust in Florida back in 2021, but there are quite a few differences between Arizona law and Florida law. The easiest thing […]
I said in yesterday’s blog that I planned to put a clamp on the gas line of the Chrysler convertible to secure it to the fuel pump. I mentioned then that it would be a simple project for anybody else, but with me doing something mechanical like that, anything could go wrong. I’m happy to […]
Before I do anything else today, I want to congratulate our granddaughter Destiny on another achievement. As I’ve shared with you before, while attending her last year of high school, Destiny was also attending cosmetology classes at Northland Pioneer College here in Show Low. She graduated from both in the same week, and yesterday she […]
Several readers have contacted me to tell me that I goofed with our last blog drawing. I usually start the contest on Thursday and draw the winner and announce them on Sunday evening. But with all the things going on with us going out of town for Terry’s parents’ 75th anniversary, I became calendar-challenged and […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. I am super impressed by your weight loss, Nick. I’m curious about one thing. What happens when you reach your target weight? Do you continue to take Mounjaro and hope the weight […]
In Friday’s blog I mentioned that it was warming up here in Arizona’s White Mountains. That was brought home to me yesterday when I went out to water the clover I had planted. Fool that I am, I had forgotten to drain the black water hose after turning the water off the night before. When […]
Yesterday, our granddaughter Destiny graduated from the cosmetology program at Northland Pioneer College. She did it while also attending her senior year of high school, which she will graduate from on the 21st. We are so proud of this hard-working, motivated young lady. She sets goals, and she does the work to accomplish them. We […]
Never ever try to proofread your own writing. It’s a basic rule that one should never violate. But sometimes you don’t have any choice. With Terry out of town, I had to proofread yesterday’s blog myself. In that blog, while talking about my new WYZE Bulb Cam Smart Security Camera I said that I was embarrassed […]
I spent much of yesterday afternoon on my Kubota tractor, using the grapple to pick up fallen limbs and branches to be piled up for the woodchipper. I have one pile over by the barn, and when I was working on the perimeter road on the other side of the property, I was taking them […]
In a blog post a few days ago I told you that the powered headrest on my La-Z-Boy recliner had stopped working. I called their service department and was referred to the extended warranty company, who said they would send out a replacement motor, and when it arrived I would have to call again to […]
No, not 2021. That seemed to drag on forever, just like the previous year did. And though we are cautiously optimistic for the coming year, especially with so many folks getting vaccinated and boosted against COVID, now the Omicron version seems to be taking over. Will it all ever end? Someone I know and respect, […]
Thank you to everybody who expressed concern for our safety in the last couple of days, but as we expected, Hurricane Elsa was pretty much a non-event for us here on the central Florida coast. Sometime in the very early hours of Wednesday morning I woke up to the sound of rain coming down pretty […]
I’m back with more questions from blog readers about RVing, what’s happening in our lives since we hung up the keys, and all kinds of other things. While I try to answer all questions individually, I also share some here occasionally. Q. When you got your rabies shots that you wrote about in yesterday’s blog, […]
I was on a lot of Army bases during my time in the military, either getting basic and infantry training, or attending different schools and taking cadets from West Point to different bases for specialized schooling. And besides the olive drab vehicles, olive drab  uniforms, standard looking barricks and administration buildings, and close cropped haircuts, […]
Every so often I contact some of my author friends to see if they have any e-books they are offering for free, and pass the information on to blog readers. Here is the latest batch, sure to give you some good reading Day Soldiers was selected by Digital Book Today as one of the Best […]
When you have a problem with a product, they say the first thing to do is RTFM. If you’re not familiar with that technical acronym, it means Read The F*****g Manual. Yeah, like a guy’s going to do that, right? Hell, we usually throw the manual away with the box the product came in, along […]