Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
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...
13 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
Today as I was working in old house in St. Louis, some rolled up newspaper fell out of the wall. That in and of itself is not unusual. I've found papers in the walls of several houses. Some people used it for insulation. It wasn't the greatest but it...
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...
21 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I found this cicada dying in front of my house this afternoon. If it is an annual cicada, it has a life span of 2-5 years. If it is a periodic cicada, it has a life span of 13-17 years. It lived its whole life underground until it crawled out a few...
13 Sep 2020 3 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
In the deep south, way out in the country, there are things that old-timers like me remember, but hardly anyone else ever talks about. The occasional hunter may see some odd things. Even a fisherman that ventures to a favorite, mostly forgotten hole...
12 Sep 2020 2 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
NOTE: In preparation for writing this article, I found that some of the things I had "known" were wrong. The most glaring item was that of Patrick Henry's speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, before the Second Virginia Convention in Mar...
12 Sep 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
So, my mother finally sold her house yesterday. She had been trying to sell it for a year or so. It was a nice little modular home with 3 bedrooms and two baths. The living room was large and it had a huge, covered front porch. It was secluded and y...
11 Sep 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
Gammy and I headed west this weekend to see our daughter, granddaughters and Kyle. It's a 2-1/2 hour trip so we don't make it out there often. Here are a few pictures of the horses and the creek. Blackberry Her new stud, Redbone That had go...
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...
