Gracos Kid

As a young boy the only thing I ever wanted, and always got for Christmas was a new pair of cowboy boots and a new double holster set of cap guns. I got them every year up until I was eleven, when my Father died on December 16th. When I started playing with real cowboy guns in SASS, I chose to use the letters GRA (my Father's name Grady) and COS (my Father's middle name Columbus) and subsequently became the GRACOS KID......as I have always been my Father's little boy that never outgrew cowboy boots and guns......

An attorney friend shared this with me a long time ago: Look to this day, for today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope....... And John Wayne was quoted as saying: Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday......

Just to notify that CCI Primers are on a good sale price at MidSouth Shooters..... Also with your choice of Free Hazmat or Free Shipping, today only......

In 1974 I was driving passed an old two-story house and noticed a white-haired elderly lady sitting on the porch waving at the passing cars. Something impressed me that I needed to go back and visit that lady. I learned that she was now living alone since her brother had died in a brush fire, that she was legally blind and waved only due to hearing the passing cars. Her yard was horribly overgrown, but for the next three years I took my mower and kept her homeplace clean every week up until her death. I dearly loved Miss Baker and miss her like family...

My microwave of about 12 years died, so I went to Sam's and bought a new Panasonic brand. It lasted on 13 months and died......I went back to Sam's and bought another Panasonic microwave, brought it home and before unpacking it, I googled to see what the prices were elsewhere. I noted that some of the other listings showed as "Refurbished".... I was curious so I called Panasonic and inquired as to whether or not my dead microwave and the new one still in the box were by chance refurbished units. Neither were designated by serial number as having been rebuilt. I was shocked to learn from Panasonic that both were in fact refurbished microwaves that were sold by Sam's......I would never buy a refurbished unit to put my family's food into. I called Sam's, spoke with the manager who repeatedly denied having sold refurbished products of any sort. Sam's did agree to reimburse me for the cost of both microwaves, and I vowed that I would never again buy anything electronic from Sam's......

Fifty-Nine years ago I was 13 years old, working in the hay field for a dairy farmer that had baled his hay, riding and stacking on the big truck. Wound up breaking my back, both wrists, three ribs and being paralyzed when a wooden ramp support beam collapsed as the truck was being driven into the second floor of a nice modern barn, pitching me over the side and falling about 30 feet. Lay flat of my back for two solid months without touching the floor, paralysis subsided and have been walking ever since. Have been blessed all these years to have survived.....

I was given an appointment to view a collection from a gun club member's estate sale after his passing. It was supposed to be restricted to 10 people for 30 minutes, and then 10 more were allowed entry. My appointment to view was only one hour after it began at the decedant's basement, meaning that only twenty people should have accessed prior to my turn. I arrived 15 minutes early, to see approximately 45 gun club members ransacking the displays. Unfortunately, one of the members in particular had "determined" the value assigned to each of the numerous guns, most of which were about 1/3 of their actual value. He bought twenty of the guns at a tremendous "bargain", which he then began offering to individuals at three times what he paid for them. The widow was grossly taken advantage of by this event. I complained to the member who originated the sale and suggested that a different approach should be initiated if ever there was to be another estate sale. He was apologetic and said he couldn't control the crowd that came in regardless of appointments. Sad for the widow......

And as Toby Keith sang, "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then"......

F U N E X? S. OK, MNX..... (Have you any eggs, yes, OK, ham and eggs...... OSMR2

Wow.....when I first saw the headline I thought maybe it had tipped over, like our illustrious Congressman feared that it would.......

In 1979 I was in Louisville, Ky. for two weeks and Billy Joel was staying in the same hotel. Some of his band members shared with me and several others that if we would go buy an album, they would get him to autograph it for each of us. Needless to say, several albums were presented to his band members, and the guy refused to sign them and wouldn't even talk to us. I immediately took the album back and got my refund.....Never liked the guy after that......

Try these folks..... Brad and Joanne Alpert are great to deal with.....I hope they are still in business, as I haven't ordered recently.... Missouri Bullet Company

I knew a guy years ago that divorced his wife, married her mother, and immediately became his own 5 year-old son's grandpa.......

I am about 45 air miles from the Tennessee line, and it sounded like a Blackhawk above my house rattling the window screens.....

This is a song for cowboys ..... One of his best in my humble opinion.....

Dentist in Georgia was named Dr. Hurt........really!