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29 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Until recently he'd never taken the time to watch it snow. There was always something to be done. There were always fires to be put out. Then the EMP happened. Now there was time for whatever he wanted to do. There was nothing but time. Power ha...
28 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
After a week off, I was obliged to return to work today. Gammy and I went on a vacation to see our older daughter in Texas. The drive was long and tedious - especially the drive trough Texas. Why is there always construction going on between Waco and...
19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I can see the young girls sharpening their knives. This was a skill that they had acquired in the last few days. It would be hard for them to survive in the wilderness without a sharp knife. Some were working on the filet knives they would use t...
18 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
"I figure that belongs to old man Sams. You know anybody else that uses a McCulloch chainsaw?" The deputy shook his head and said, "Nobody I can think of right off hand." Sams was a crotchety old bastard that lived way back in the holler. He ran...
18 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
"Whatever it was, it run off behind the bush over yonder." People in these parts were not very particular with their grammar. They didn't much take to "schoolin'." "Like I done told that newspaper feller that was snoopin' 'round here before, I a...
17 Oct 2020 1 minute read 3 comments uthus2000
We have a common enemy and that enemy pretty much has one tactic: lie about everything. Some lies are outright and bald-faced. Some lies are mostly true with a little deception thrown in. The thing about lies is that, for some reason, people tend t...
10 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
He said I didn't have to tell anyone, and I was planning to hold him to that. Somehow, however, it seemed like more and more people wanted to know what had actually happened. I'm still not very comfortable talking about it. There was the whole thing...
4 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
She was not as much a warrior bride as she was a bride that was forced to be a warrior. The invaders had come through and killed many of her people and she was now wending down the dark forest path late at night in search of them. The aircraft that f...
7 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
While it would be easy enough to write that the land is burning in California or even in our largest cities, I shall head in another direction. In the picture above, you should notice some smoke over my left shoulder. This is from a controlled burn...
25 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
I built this a couple of years ago for my daughter. They used to have monthly get togethers where she lived. Everybody would come over one Friday night for the bonfire, music and food. The first few times that she did this, the guys would be hitting...
