Dan Poynter

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Apr 26

False Morel

Last week when my brother Nube and I were mushroom hunting, he found a false morel. The mushroom is toxic, but can supposedly be prepared to be edible (I’ll decline, thanks).

Apr 25

The girl and the fish

As Bill Cosby would say, I told you the previous story to tell you this story. Several years ago when my girls were about five and seven, Heather and I took them hiking at Ha Ha Tonka state park in Camdenton, Missouri. After we had hiked from the castle all the way down past the …

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Apr 24

Wilxn and the cow

My friend Wilxn was telling me about the time when he was 12 and he and some friends found a dead cow. “It was all dead and bloated,” he started. “So I grabbed a long stick–” “You poked it?” I asked incredulously. “I didn’t even get the chance,” he said. “It just exploded!”

Apr 23

Wilkson

My friend Wilkson always had a hard time with people misreading or mispronouncing his name: Wilkerson, Wilskerin, Wilkerins, Wilskerinson, etc. But I think I have come up with a clean, phonetic replacement: Wilxn. I realize there is a small chance it could be pronounced wilzn, but I’m willing to take my chances.

Apr 22

Why is your nose so flat?

When my friend’s son was about three I was teasing him. “Why is your nose so flat?” I asked. “It’s got boogers in it!” he replied.

Apr 19

Free Wallpaper: concretius

Well, I’m back, and I brought you a present: my first free wallpaper. I like my desktop wallpapers to be low contrast, low clutter (mainly  because I supply all the clutter myself with my shamefully cluttered desktop). Concretius is available in 1600 x 1200 (standard) and 1440 x 900 (wide). Just right click and Save …

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Apr 13

The debt that all men pay

Due to a death in the family, blogging will be light to nil this week.

Apr 09

Dad stories: grandpa shot a man in the back

It’s not as nefarious as it sounds. It was the middle of the depression and my grandpa Roy had a small farm. In the middle of the night he heard some racket, and saw someone riding off on a horse. The stranger had one of my grandpa’s pigs under his arm. So grandpa grabbed his …

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Apr 08

Review: Steel’s Used Christian Books

Steel’s Used Christian Books has one of the absolute best selections of any used bookstore I have ever seen. Not only do they carry religious books of several orthodox and non-orthodox Christian denominations, as well as complete other religions. They also carry books on history, mythology, and various other odds and ends. When I was …

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Apr 07

Rear-view mirror

One of the ways you can tell whether a car belongs to a man or a woman is to look at the rear-view mirror. For a guy, a rear-view mirror is for looking at things behind him, and, just maybe, a parking pass. For a woman, a rear-view mirror is gallery waiting to be populated. …

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