Osama Bin Laden was a genius, he knew full well the economic power house of the United States. He studied and understood this nations vast resource, resource in food production, manufacturing, invention, money management, military and education. Osama spent a large portion of his life trying to understand what “Makes America Great. “ One of …
I phone my friends and ask “will we see you in Breckenridge, Co. exhibiting at the art fair?” A long hesitation…..”Our R.V. Can’t make it up that steep mountain at 12,000 ft”. We set off by ourselves with a devil-may-care attitude. We travel in an RV with a turbo diesel and we can do …
Poultry Producers Throughout The Nation Owe A Debt to Queen and King Victoria and Albert. The Victoria and Albert Museum, The V & A as it is known to Londoners holds many a treasure. A story seldom heard in the U.S. is their story of animal husbandry and how it fostered the industries of poultry …
(THEY SAID “DO ART FAIRS, SEE THE WORLD!) The day is done, we have worked long and hard, diligently and efficiently. I am surrounded by people that share our similar dream of craftsmanship and quality. I reflect on where I am and what is my purpose. We are humble craftsmen and to survive …
WE HAVE BORNE WITNESS. We witnessed a man who grabbed and mocked women with no consequence.We witnessed a man who mocked a professional news reporter with serious health issues and deformity. We witnessed a man who knows many world class prostitutes. (Possibly some in Russia) We witnessed a man who cheated on his first two …
There is an English adage that states “it takes 200 years to sprout and English Oak, it takes another 200 years to grow and it takes another 200 years to die.” The Oak that is depicted is one of those English Oak Trees. It is found in the Cotswold region of the U.K. It sheltered …
Recently while exploring the attic crawl space I came across this box, the Jefferson Wizard Doorbell Transformer along with a ten pound can of commercial putty. The Citizens National Bank was built in 1901 when the streets of Worthington, Minnesota were dirt. Horses, wagons and trains were the only means of transportation. The bank was …
We live in an age where electronics, weather services, and GPS systems inform us of all our meteorological needs. Our temperature, our speed, our heat index, our low and high pressure systems, our wind speeds. All of these indexes are determined by people with state of the art electronic contrivance. Step back two hundred years …
My interest in all things stone came about at an early age. I marveled at the workmanship of arrowheads that I had found in the outlying fields and later in life I was in need of a fireplace that included a brick surround. It was one on my first masonry projects and it turned out …
From an early age I read with clarity the Boys Life Magazine. There in was advertised the “Ithaca Saddle Rifle. It was the object of my absolute interest. It had a very western look, it had a lever action, it had the “Rifleman” look to it. Alas, my father knew a bit about rifles and …