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I use a Viking Blade brand safety razor that uses Gillette three blade cartridges. I shave in the shower using Camay brand bath soap (because my wife did) and water as hot as I can stand it. I get a shave so smooth it makes a baby's bottom feel like a gravel road. Touch it up with a dash of Old Bay brand bay rum.....very mild and not a bit overwhelming..... and I'm ready for almost everything. Other than that, the video nails it perfectly. BTW, I'd give a lot for hair a white as his. Mine's a sort of light steel gray. It ain't bad but I'd like it whiter, more like the color of my soul.

What a coincidence: tomorrow is my 60th wedding anniversary. My wife would be proud if she still lived, but I'm celebrating alone, proud enough for both of us I have a red rose and a white carnation, a tradition we started the year before we were married and it was kept going every year since, even when we were apart....Okinawa, Japan, Vietnam, and other interferences with our ceremony. I still have two custom suits that I had made by Peter Daniel, Montclair, CA when I was in business for myself. I'll be wearing the navy blue one tomorrow with an ice white shirt by the same tailor. Add a solid blood red necktie with a double Windsor knot, parade gloss western style boots, a custom "cowboy fedora" by Bobbie "All Hat" Dumez (RIP my friend), a gold pocket watch with a double chain, and two lapel pins and I'll be presentable. I'll take a framed picture of my wife, order a glass of Burgundy and a cup of decaf coffee for her, and we'll enjoy a wonderful meal at Gabriella's Italian Restaurant. Every year it's a different place. If I can get the staff to do it, I'll have them play Neil Diamond's "The Story of my Life" at dessert time. Your poem will be resting on the table my friend. Thank you.

BTW, both of those guns can hurt you. Never had a problem with ejected rounds because we had a mimeographed set of instructions. Everyone got to shoot each gun once. Some fired them more than once. Not me. One kid, Roger someone, broke his collar bone on his second shot. Carried them up Green Canyon to an abandoned sheriff's shooting range in a pickup because my MGA wasn't up to the challenge.

I've eaten jerky and pemmican all my life, usually as a trail food. They will keep you alive in an emergency but we never used it more than as a pocket snack while hunting, hiking, or fishing. Night time found camp fires and cast iron cook ware. I never even considered making rubaboo stew out of it and haven't made pemmican in years and I made my last jerky to sell at a rendezvous over 25 years ago. That said, I think I'll pass on this stuff for......well, forever.

No, we have idiots, too.

I'd like to see the person who could swing that crank. Australia's answer to Paul Bunyan?

You have great taste. JIF creamy pb and Kerry Gold salted butter. Consumer Reports reported on butters and rate KG #2. I don't recall what #1 was but it cost twice as much, and KG tastes just right to me. It's worth the extra cost. I buy four pound package. About a year ago I went on a quest to try all the different honeys I could find. I got local clover honey, pure Arizona mesquite honey, sourwood honey and a bevy of others......a total of22 jars. I couldn't find a nickel's worth of difference in any of them except one. Maybe my old taste buds are finally going bad, but...... Byrd's Bees 100% raw honey stands out. My daughter lives in Flat Rock NC and found this local honey that is just right. When I run out of the honey a have already....in about five years....I'll have her gather me up few jars to tide me over until I die.

That's what they make hand trucks for. Keeps guys from being crippled up when they get older.

Hey, I bought a little thingy that holds up to five eggs and boils them (from really soft to hard), poaches them, and makes several other dishes, and is so simple even I can use it. Cost me about $25.00 IIRC and I use it maybe once week.

I have, in my long ago past, fired Boyes and Lahti antitank rifles using surplus ammo. Both were fairly accurate at 100-200 yards, maybe out to 350, but not much further. Not very impressive. Some outfit in Florida was selling them for a song (IIDC we paid more to get them shipped to Utah than the guns cost) and a few us got the money together to buy the guns and ammo (Hey! Great name for a magazine.) An Air Force brat in the bunch bought both of them when we ran out of ammo.

Honey and real butter are the only things that will make me eat peanut butter. PB is supposed to be good for you, too.

Looks to me like entrapment and like I said, I know a whole herd of lawyers who would love to take that on.

Now, that explains a lot. 😉

Whatever became of Foghorn Leghorn. Dad hung a picture of him in the hen house "to motivate the hens". And you wonder where I got my strange streak from.

Yes, since I can remember. On toast, pancakes, waffles, in coffee and tea, and on a lot of breakfast cereals. I even remember it in Ovaltine when you still had to boil it. (I'd love to find those old black crystals of Ovaltine again. Nothing ever tasted just like it and the stuff they sell now under that label is still the best, but not the same.) I remember driving 60 miles each way over to Bear Lake to buy huge tins of honey with the comb still in a lot of it...until Dad found out it was really from a farm just three miles down the road. We'd chew the combs until they had no honey left in them. Sure beats chewing gum. Mom used a lot of honey in her baking and for glazing some meats. I think Mom and Sis used to rub it on their skin but I'm not sure of that.