Category: miscellaneous

  • My newest shootin' iron

    Made a trade yesterday to pick up my newest shootin’ iron: A stainless steel Ruger Vaquero (the original ones that can shoot ’em as hot as you can make ’em) in 357 Magnum. The plan is to pickup a cheapy 12 gauge side by side shotgun, a nice lever action (Henry) in the same caliber,…

  • Seeking the origin of my favorite breakfast meat

    No, it’s not Bacon (that’s second).  It’s Goetta.  Growing up in Northern Kentucky / Greater Cincinnati I can remember almost every breakfast we had with Goetta.  And its not because it was a special treat only rolled out at Christmas or New Years.  We ate Goetta  a lot.  Its because its sooo good.  All throughout…

  • Which way is up?

    Been rather quiet again here lately.  Not sure if I am loosing interest in blogging or it is loosing interest in me.  One standard excuse for letting your blog go to weeds is that you’ve been to busy with other things.  The last half of the year, that was certainly true.  I was coaching 2…

  • Teach your children well

    Long break since last post, but since I am on vacation for the next few days I thought I would hammer this one out since its been rattling around in my head for the last few days. I may be (really) late to the party, but I am starting to fully understand the duty all…

  • Getting closer to my food

    I’ve been on a journey for the last few years.  It’s not a journey that I expressly chose to start out on; it’s one that I just sort of fell into: a journey to get closer to what I and my family eat.  It started many years ago, before we moved out to our farm,…

  • Rhythm blogging

    I seem to have fallen out of my blogging rhythm again.  This happens to me now and again and I really don’t know why.  Sure, I have been busy, but in some ways that give me more to talk about.  Since my last post there have been countless volley ball games, practices and tryouts.  There…

  • Can social media work for large companies?

    This is one of those half baked ideas that I hope gets more fully baked by writing about it. In the past few weeks I have been involved in a few discussions about strategies for rolling out social media inside large companies. I am starting to think that its not possible to do well. Its…

  • My newest ride: a classic 50s convertible

    On Friday I pulled the trigger on my newest ride: a classic yellow convertible from the 50’s: Yep, you’re looking at a 1956 (sort of) CJ3a (sort of) Willy’s Overland Jeep (completely!).  Its sort of a 56 since that’s what the tub plate says.  Its also only sort of a CJ3A since the tub plate…

  • A garden results pictorial (AKA Massive taters!)

    Need I say more: (That’s a penny in the foreground for scale…for those of you that still can’t get it, that tater weighs about 6 lbs! I feel like a flash back to Gilligans Island).