Kenny and I were planning to go to the gun show at the Show Low Elks Lodge yesterday, but it turned out to be a family affair. Tiffany wanted to go with us, and then granddaughter Hailey called to say she would meet us at the lodge with grandbaby Tyler. And just as we all […]
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 […]
I dropped Terry off at her parents’ house yesterday morning and then I went to a gun show at the Mesa Convention Center. It was one of the better shows I’ve been to in a long time, and there were all kinds of neat things on display. It’s a good thing I didn’t have a […]
In yesterday’s blog, I mentioned that son-in-law Kenny and I were going to go to the gun show in the small town of St. Johns, about 47 miles northeast of us. I said I was looking for a set of grips for one of my single-action Ruger revolvers. Kenny and I left a little after […]
It has been raining off and on for the last three days here in Arizona’s high country. We’re not going to complain a bit because it’s been so dry for so long that our forests desperately need all the moisture they can get. Tomorrow and the next day, the Phoenix area is supposed to get […]
After going to Payson on Saturday to buy a reloading setup and stumbling upon an excellent deal on a Ruger Blackhawk .44 magnum revolver, which I told you about in yesterday’s blog, Kenny was here bright and early yesterday morning to go with me to a gun show in the small town of Taylor, about […]
Son-in-law Kenny really wants to get into reloading ammunition for target shooting and we’ve been talking about different options when it comes to the equipment needed. I used to reload years ago but have forgotten most of what I knew back then. We pretty much had settled on a Dillon reloading press. They have a […]
There’s not a lot we miss about living in Florida other than our neighbors Jesse and Jennifer, access to the water, and a great selection of places to eat. We are finding some restaurants around here we like, but I was definitely disappointed when McAlister’s Deli in Northportstopped carrying Cuban sandwiches. They were about the […]
Monday morning our friends Scott and Alan Banks from Banks Construction came by to install the new double wall oven we ordered from Lowe’s. The first step was removing the old oven, which wasn’t hard because it had not been attached and was just sitting in the opening. Once they pulled it out enough that […]
If you’ve ever heard anybody say people fight like cats and dogs, please don’t tell our cats and dog, because they wouldn’t believe you. This is Mae Lin, Terry’s polydactyl Ragdoll cat, and Alli. These two are buddies. While Alli would prefer to play with her ball every chance she gets, Mae Lin wants her […]
The Artemis I rocket was scheduled to launch weeks ago, but technical delays, fuel leaks, and hurricanes kept pushing things back. The window for the latest launch opened at 1:04 a.m. this morning, but even an hour before that, the ground crews were struggling to deal with last minute details and problems that were cropping […]
Even though it isn’t politically correct to a lot of people these days, I grew up around guns and was taught to shoot at a very early age. But not before I was taught gun safety. Besides being an excellent shot, my dad was a hard taskmaster when it came to carelessness with firearms, and […]
Somebody asked me what it was like coming from the hot, dry desert of Arizona back to hot, humid, central Florida. I lived in Arizona for many years and never believed any of that “it’s a dry heat” nonsense they tell you about the desert. Hot is hot. It’s dry inside an oven, too, but […]
While Terry was editing and proofreading another six chapters of my new Big Lake book, I snuck out for a while yesterday afternoon and went to the gun show at the Volusia County Fairgrounds in Deland. I’ve owned more guns in my life than I could begin to count, but only once have I owned […]
I was online as soon as registrations opened for COVID-19 vaccinations at the Volusia County Fairgrounds yesterday morning and managed to get us registered for ours on Monday afternoon. They had openings today and Friday and again on Monday, and you had to choose a one-hour time slot. I clicked on 10 – 11 a.m. […]
No, I wasn’t being a couch potato all day, or a recliner potato, either. But I did spend some time stuck in my La-Z-Boy recliner yesterday evening. We actually started the day with a quick run up to the gun show at the Volusia County Fairgrounds. I didn’t see anything I couldn’t live without, but […]
The last couple of days have been busy, busy, busy for us. You may recall that a while back I had an episode of dizziness, blurred vision, and a terrible headache. After going to my primary care doctor, they sent me for what they said was going to be an MRI, but actually turned out […]
No, I haven’t been playing with dynamite or hand grenades, though I have in the past and somehow managed not to blow myself up. But I don’t do that anymore, deciding that I should quit while I was ahead. Or still had a head. No, yesterday Miss Terry and I went to the gun show […]
Yesterday I wished our daughter-in-law Geli happy birthday, and today it’s my daughter Tiffany’s turn. I don’t know where the years went, because it seems like only last week that I was strapping my brand-new daughter into a car seat in the back of my brand-new Lincoln Town Car to take her home from the […]
Here is another story from the Nick Happens file. The RV lifestyle has so much to offer. Your snug home on wheels can take you to wonderful places, you never have to worry about finding a decent motel or be concerned with finding yourself in some local greasy spoon named the Ptomaine Palace when you’re […]