Ice Jackpot
posted over 5 years ago | 1 comment
Last Saturday night Mrs. RoxFan and I paid a visit to one of our casinos located in two old gold mining towns west of Denver. I use the word “paid” because all we do is “pay” when we visit there! We were making a “deposit” at one casino when I dec...
Send Love Not Technology Trauma
posted over 5 years ago | 0 comments
I finally learned how to send my first ever text message. My 21 yr. old niece can send text messages using both thumbs while she talks and looks at you. Me? I read the manual, phone in hand, for an hour and got nowhere. “There has to be an easier ...
Bringing In The Sheaves
posted over 5 years ago, updated 11 minutes later | 0 comments
My uncle, the ole man, asked my Dad’s permission to hold me over on the farm an extra week at the end of this particular summer. I was 11 or 12 and this would be in the early 1950’s. His reason was that he wanted me to experience something he felt...
My New Swimming Hole
posted over 5 years ago | 1 comment
My summer on my Uncle’s farm at 17 was my last. I was “the city boy” who couldn’t carry a full bucket of milk or water when I started at age 8. One of the first lessons I learned from my uncle (the old man) was that if I couldn’t carry a full buc...
Lake Effect Snow
posted over 5 years ago | 0 comments
Mrs. Roxfan called me this morning and noted that the two new ponds at the water treatment plant were steaming. She wanted to know if this might cause lake effect snow in our area. She cited the fact that her sister lives in Buffalo and they get ...
You Could See It Coming
posted over 5 years ago | 0 comments
I stopped in to have an early morning coffee at MC Donald’s this morning. Car thermometer said it was 32 degrees after a cold night. A young man came out with a water hose to the handicapped parking area (that was in the shade) determined to clea...
Thanksgiving 2006
posted over 5 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 2 comments
Mrs. RoxFan reported yesterday that her right ear is plugged. Doctor says the remedy may take 2-3 days. I am finding out that this is working very much in my favor. You know, it seems that she finds something wrong with about 1/2 of what I say. No...
The Grass Is Greener
posted over 5 years ago | 0 comments
Mrs. RoxFan reported that she spotted a gaggle of geese parading on the old Logan Army base parade ground. She said they were marching in 4 columns and in perfect step while another group was making fowl sounds by honking marching tunes! She obse...
A Ghostly Cover Up
posted over 5 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 0 comments
I was awakened with an urgent need to go to the bathroom. It was about 2 am on a beautiful 1953 summer night on my Uncle’s farm situated in northern New York. The two dormer windows were letting the cool night air waft through the dark bedroom as ...
Sounds of America
posted over 5 years ago | 1 comment
I have been asked about my picture seated on an old John Deere Tractor. I have loved the sound of the old two cylinder since I was a boy. It had very large cylinders (for power), but its strange firing order required that it be “carried over” by ...
