Recent content by Rider77

A year or so back I received a notice to appear for jury duty. In the population of persons summoned I was in one to about a dozen potential panels. It so happened that my panel was to report for service about a month later. We had vacation plans and reservations including flights already...

As we travel through our senior years, it seems that we take note with more interest when someone we know or know of passes away. It can be in our community or even in our range of persons we take note of in the news. During the Corona virus period we couldn't help but note the passing of...

We have only ordered one item from Walmart online, because we couldn't find it readily available anywhere else. By the same token we do order many things from Amazon, as Prime members we take advantage of the free shipping, and streaming service. As an avid reader I was converted to ebooks after...

My wife and I have watched many movies with Robert Redford and for the most part found most of them very enjoyable, from comedy to drama on a broad range of subjects. Our daughter and family found that he was a fellow passenger on a flight back to Hawaii, and like everyone else was just passing...

Twenty-five years ago I bought an ATV to use around the farm. Now that we no longer live on our farm (we lease it out) I still have my ATV. It was and is a basic model not one of the hot rod version, in fact only two wheel drive and a 250 CC engine. I putter around with things in my shop, and...

I always try to give an honest answer to this which is better question. In my right (healthy) eye I sometimes can discern clarity of one over the other. With my left (abliopic and myopic) eye it isn't even worth offer an opinion. What my opthomologist is monitoring carefully is a cluster of...

My wife's doctor recently started her using Ozempic for her Type 2 diabetes. We have really been pleased with the excellent improvement in her daily numbers, with no modification to her daily diet. I ran across an article that warned about harmful effects on vision following long term use. I...

I read the comments, and I have to admit they are all over the spectrum. I did what several of you did and jumped on the computer to see what I could learn. I have to tell you that this was a small town bank and I doubt they ever encountered any counterfeit currency, or not enough to be skilled...

One morning I when walking our black labrador, Max, I noticed some money lying next to the curb. There wasn't a nearby house and I didn't see any other persons walking. When I got up close I found a $100 bill folded in half. Naturally, I picked it up, and for several days I watched to see if...

A few years ago I was diagnosed with atrial fibrilation. Before I even got out of the clinic I was getting a call to test me for sleep apnea, which I thought was pretty odd. My philosphy has always been that if you go to a doctor you listen to their guidance and usually follow the advice and...

I'm the youngest of six children. In our family first they had two boys, two years apart, then eight years later they had two girls, two years apart, again eight years later they had another girl and me as the youngest. Now at 77 I'm the only surviving sibling. With four children of our own we...

As a teenager living in Gunnison Colorado, we drove hundreds of barely passable dirt trails up and down the mountains. There were abandoned mines, and the remnants of boom towns to see. Just when you thought you were seeing a place where no one had been for a century you would see crushed beer...

Fresh bread baking, ham and beans cooking, and the smell of starch on my mother's iron.

My wife and I have watched the series and movies multiple times and still enjoy the dialogue and characters. We also re-watch Driving Miss Daisy, The Shootist, The Hunt for Red October, The Great Escape, We Were Soldiers and On Golden Pond (although I have a distinct dislike for Hanoi Jane Fonda).

The Lord's Prayer The Pledge of Allegiance multiplication tables alphabet The Gettysburg Address Poems about historical dates and events States and their capitals That Mr. Suttcliffs paddle was call the whistler for a reason.