Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
29 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I never mean to get brown legs during the summer. It just happens. Well, kind of. I wear shorts to work so my legs get brown from the top of my socks to just over my knees. My arms on the other hand get very brown. Especially my left one because I dr...
25 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I work all over St Louis county and occasionally I get to see interesting things. I saw this young buck and a companion as I was leaving a customers house Thursday. This was in south STL county somewhere along the bluff. I stopped and took a few pic...
25 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Riddle me this, Batman. Was there a coin shortage in January? If not, why is there one now? Who controls the disbursement of coinage? Of currency? Who has the most to gain if there's not enough cash? Who stands to profit from a cashless populace? Rem...
23 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I'm going to assume the prompt was basketball not basket ball. When I was a kid we played church league basketball. I went to a medium sized church and all our players were regular Joes. None of us played on the school team. Northside and First Bapti...
23 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
My mother has told me several times about the wonderful bouquet of castor oil and orange juice that her grandmother made her take as a girl. It was quite like ambrosia from what I understand. Actually she said it was the nastiest thing she'd eve...
21 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I remember an episode of SpongeBob in which SpongeBob and Patrick ate something particularly pugnacious. The town of Bikini Bottom was nearly destroyed by the residents who were trying to evade them. While stinking breath can be quite difficult to b...
16 Jul 2020 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
I've only got 5 minutes so... I'm frustrated. My wife's frustrated. My brother... Most everybody I know. We are frustrated over the decisions of our overlords. "Masks are good for you!" That's a lie. We know it's a lie. They know it's a lie. They kno...
15 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I grew up in the deep South. We used a few natural remedies for things but I have since learned more. One of the things that I've always heard is to use mullein boiled in vinegar as a poultice for a sprain. You can smoke it for bronchitis. You can us...
13 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
I was working for a local delivery company a few years ago and had to go to St Louis twice a day. Depending on where I was, a lot of the time I would take I-70 down and pick up I-64 east. This particular day I was headed south about 10:30 or 11. I wa...
12 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Years ago we lived in Hawaii. From the time we got there until near the time we left, my wife, our friends and I were constantly on the go. We hiked to Sacred Falls. We scoured the beaches and reefs for shells. We explored the cave out past Waianae....
