Just finished watching an episode of Pawn Stars on the History Channel (Channel 28) in which some dude was wearing a red Energy Dome hat of sorts, made famous by 80s techno band Devo. Most folks probably don’t even know that Pawn Stars is still on the air. However, it...

Man, that sure was a humdinger of a windstorm we had recently, a near record “24-bagger.” What that means is that I ended up raking and bagging 24 of those 33-gallon trash bags of oak leaves and pine needles that have been raining down on my backyard, front yard and...

With Halloween coming up in just a couple of days, let’s take a look at the history of this spooky holiday. Though it’s been celebrated for over a century in the United States, it’s not in any other area of the globe. I have an old friend who used to reside in Great...

I guess I don’t have to tell you that it was a long, hot summer with hardly any rain, ‘cept for that flash flood that snookered many of our mountain communities last week. I sure wish it would rain some more, just like it did in the days of yore when my lover was...

Early this morning, Albert the Kat (He’s the good cat) was being chased, back-and-forth, across my bed at 3 a.m. by Cousin Rusty the Kat, the latest addition to the Katz family, yet another orange and white cat that thinks it should be treated like royalty. To tell...