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).
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Faith, Books, and Stuff
Month: April 2009
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 […]
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!”
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.
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.
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 […]
Due to a death in the family, blogging will be light to nil this week.
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]