Warden Callaway

Sometimes we have a bounty of mushrooms. Find them by the bucket loads. Some years, it turns off hot and dry and we only find a few. Last year I hunted a lot and only found four. A few years back, I found a patch and gathered a bread sack load. I returned a couple of times and found more. In total, probably near a bushel. Went back year after year and never found another at that spot.

I usually fry them up with breakfast.

Lots of rain in southern Missouri and Arkansas. Even too much. But it's dry here north of the river. I went out to check Dad's never fail early mushroom spot. It always produces a few. And on south facing hillside, produces the first. It's not an easy climb with loose rock and leaves. Lots of down trees an limbs. The Russian olive has invaded. Got up there and found none. Rested up a bit and headed back down. I got to within 20' of the Mule and lost my footing. I did a slow motion fall on my butt with my left leg under my right. I figured it was a good time to rest up. While resting, I looked down the hill and spotted the top of a mushroom. I took a picture. I pulled myself back up on my feet with help of ironwood tree and continued on to Mule. Mary texted and wanted to go to the library. Ok, I'll be there in a bit. I'm in the Mule. Went to pick my mushroom and couldn't find it. Returned home empty handed and puzzled. Went back this afternoon and did another search. Nothing. Looked at my picture and by looking at the down wood, I could see that I looking in the wrong spot. I looked up the hill about 4' and there it was, standing in plain sight. About the size of my thumb and starting to dry.

If it's as stiff to open like they all seem to be.. set in living room and open and close it until your wife hits you with a frying pan. Then shoot a flat of shells through it. It should fall open then.

James Cagney trained in judo to do his own fight scenes in Blood on the Sun. This movie was considered the first American martial arts film. Blood on the Sun (1945) According to the DVD sleeve notes, prior to production James Cagney trained intensively in the martial art of judo in preparation for his role. He trained under Ken Kuniyuki, who was a 5th Degree Judo Master. Cagney insisted that he perform his own stunts. He said in his memoirs, "I grew so fond of judo I used it to keep in shape until a back injury I picked up doing something else put me on the sidelines." Moreover, another instructor for Cagney was former LAPD policeman John Halloran, who plays the role of Capt. Oshima and can be seen in the closing fight sequence. Apparently Halloran quit the LAPD after FBI agents investigated him because he was an expert in judo.

James Colburn hang across two chairs.

Oh yeah, a texting problem. One of my contacts is neighbor up the road. Nice guy and done ablot for us. (He has a TIG welder and knows how to use it.) Anyway, he texted some greetings like "Merry Christmas" and included a group of people. For days I would get junk text messages and copies of replies from people I have no idea who they are - mostly saying "quit sending me messages". Another annoying problem. We're on several cowboy action shooting clubs Email lists. Get the message and someone or several will reply to all something nobody is interested in.

If all the terrorist and hate groups want to channel their anger somewhere, they can find these people and eliminate them.

I don't do phone calls. I have about 10 contacts of people in my innermost circle that I'll answer a phone from. And they know not to call me. A couple times a day or more I get SPAM messages. Don't answer but often they leave a massage. It's easy to delete a phone call record but more trouble to delete a phone message. Samsung Android has a setting to reject phone calls from anyone not on contact list. But it doesn't work. I've tried help from the phone Geeks and there is no way it works. Blocking numbers is not working. The Geeks say the telemarketers just create a new number.

Box stock CZ. Note it falls open.

No problems with mine.

From trail cam 10 years ago. Dance like nobody's watching.

Not studio quality but my new great granddaughter and granddaughter one week old.

Spamy I. Amhn

Good Harry Langdon short.

Similar experience of my cataract surgery some 9 months ago. Wow! My vision was vastly improved and the colors came back like high definition. I need to use $2 1.5 power reading glasses up close.

Hellgate 1952 James Arness Sterling Hayden

Fulton Missouri has a rich history. It's located on the Booneslick trail. The trail was established by two of Daniel Boone's sons to work their salt making place neer Franklin Missouri. Considered to be first leg of Santa Fe and later Oregon Trail. I've read they had three wagon makers and three gun makers in town to accommodate immigrants traveling on the trail. Steam boat travel up the Missouri River became posable and railroads killed off that business. The college hosted a speach from Jefferson Davis - former president of the Confederacy. Later Herry Truman stopped in with his friend Sir Winston Churchill where he made his famous Iron Curtain speech. Ever president up until but not Obama has made speeches in town. They reconstructed a bombed out church from England to commemorate the event plus a section of Berlin wall. Lots of the War of Northern Aggression history. Leading up to the county becoming and independent county The Kingdom of Callaway. I think it lasted three days. Lots of post war outlaw activity - Bloody Bill Anderson's brother had a farm in the county. Lots of rumor Frank James hid out here for a while. Known as the Mule capital of the world. It had lots of mule farms suppling animals for travel west and farms up including WWII. The world champion mule at the St Louis world's fair came from Callaway county.

The book Kings Row was written by Henry Bellamann who was born and raised in Fulton. He later went on to be and accomplished professor and writer of music and poetry. His greatest book was Kings Row - about all the dirty secrets hidden in a sleepy mid-west town. At first Fulton was delighted home town boy makes good. But the exposed hypocrisy started to strike too close to home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bellamann The movie Kings Row was packed with stars. It was considered Ronald Reagans' best movie performance. They had to skirt around many topics in the book like incest, homosexuality, suicide because of movie code.

A penny for your thoughts. Here's a dime. Call someone who cares. Spazoid. Between a rock and a hard place. Be there in a jiffy. Written in the wind. Blind as a bat. Curse the day. Lefty loosy. Righty tighty. Rock around the clock. Well I'll be switched. Chick bait. You want a Hertz doughnut? Blew his skirts off. (Racing) Mother may I? On a wing and a prayer. The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Taters falling off the wagon. (Thunder) Liar, liar, pants on fire. Not seen hide nor hair of him. Though it was a bugger but it's snot.

I use lead traps here on the farm. Not perfect but recover maybe 50%.

Funny, I have a lot of TV time, but I never watch the serial Westerns. We watched them a lot when our TV still had a rotary channel knob. Clunk, clunk, clunk. And we got 3 channels. But I avoid them now.