Across the road and at the top of the hill, NW of our old farm house where we lived for a time, there was an old mansion. It stood empty for a while after the old lady that lived there alone, died. I didn’t have Read More …
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What Makes a Good Song
Songs have three elements music, rhythm and lyrics if the rhythm is great and the music is good and the lyrics are so-so then you have a good song and a few people will like it. If you have Great rhythm , great music and Read More …
A Treasure Map
We lived in a farm house at the corner of 95th and Switzer Rd. when I was a kid and there was an open field that led down to a creek that ran very shallow in dry weather but would roar bank full in a Read More …
Drainin’ the Radiator
I loved to visit my Grandpa and Grandma Bolin when I was young and this incident took place on one of my visits though it’s faded a bit, it went something like this. Grandpa and me had a man to man relationship you might say Read More …
How to Make a Duck
20 yrs ago I got interested in carving a duck. A friend of mine and our wives went to Branson Mo. and walked into a store he knew of, that had lots of wood carvings. Some of them were decoy carvings of ducks that were Read More …
Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
Today is my Birthday, it’s also Abraham’s birthday and no doubt millions of others too. Like Lincoln I was born in a log cabin. Except it was in South Eastern Mo. near a little town called Bois’ D Arc. I’m told that it means “wood Read More …