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If you pour in enough milk so that the cereal just starts float you'll find that you have only enough milk to finish the cereal. Then, you can drink the few drops that are left. I tried to teach the grandchildren this trick by telling them, " Just enough milk to float the boat. "

Is the shell plate upside down? Don't ask why I know.

National newscasts by John Cameron Swasey. He did his own commercials for Timex watches. "They take a licking and keep on ticking." Timex made timers for bombs or torpedoes during the War. Making your own root beer from Hires flavoring, sugar, some yeast for carbonation and capping the bottle. After a week or so, carefully pour the root beer into glass to keep the yeast in the bottle.The yeast tastes terrible. Handle the bottles carefully they had a tendency to explode. Shooting strike anywhere matches from a BB rifle. They would light when striking a solid surface.

Stockings were for St. Nicholas eve. We usually got the same thing year to year. An apple or orange, nuts, Hershey kisses and a cap gun. If our behavior wasn't up to standards, there was a lump of coal. Back in the 50's our house had a coal furnace in the basement.

Old age is creeping up on you if you remember when jeans came in only one length. All the kids had folded up cuffs. Your mother would yell at you if you let them drag on the ground. Did your mother make you put a dime in your "penny" loafers in case you had to make an emergency phone call?

My favorite is one where Matt get taken advantage of because of his good nature. He goes out to a small ranch/farm to arrest the owner. The man says he will willingly go back but winter is coming and he needs to make sure that wife will be OK. He needs to weatherproof the house, split fire wood and enough other chores to fill the episode. And of course Matt is talked into helping him. The man knew he was innocent and had a good alibi but decided to play a little con game with Matt.

Cheyenne Ranger and I had been shooting USPSA for about 10 years. He started talking about something new, cowboy shooting, he was trying and said that I might be interested. He kept after me for two years and said I should bring my wife out just to watch. When I got there people handed me guns, ammo and leather. It was FUN. I thought that there was no way my wife would go for four new guns and everything else I needed. But she was talking to the other wives about the big shoots and the fancy dresses. By the next month I had all the guns and leather. Thank you Cheyenne.