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Gitmo Adopt a Detainee Plan

2009-01-22T16:24:00.002-07:00

Why not an Adopt a Detainee program? Ease that liberal angst and take 'em home with you. Sort of a reverse Peace Corps program.

The Way of Cats- Midnight says bye to Scooter

2008-11-05T07:40:00.007-07:00

Midnight passed away the next day.

John McCain

2008-10-25T07:09:00.000-06:00

I guess I do need to say more.

I saw the Navy training film of the fire aboard the USS Forestal in 1977 and a few times since.

For years I've remembered a brave pilot crawling out on the nose of his burning plane and jumping into the fire. Not until he ran for president in 2000 did I learn that same pilot was John McCain.

The sequence of events and film of that tragic day have been studied. You can do a browser search and find out all about it for yourself.

You can also read the hate filled nonsense of conspiracy loons, Bush bashers, and liberal lemmings, who, rather than invest in the Truth, invent stories about John McCain starting the fire.

Talk show host, Dennis Prager, said: "We truly live in the Age of Stupidity." That's for the loons.

John McCain is a good man!

Need I Say More?

2008-10-24T09:22:00.001-06:00

My brother, Jerry, has become my favorite photographer.

2008-05-13T05:58:00.003-06:00

He's captured images of the family farm in North Dakota that for me really bring back the memories.
Like of this 1947 Allis-Chalmers WC. This is the same tractor as in the "Making Hay" post found in the August 2006 Archive.

a few Dog pictures now and then can't hurt

2006-12-16T05:05:00.000-07:00

Now you don't.

OK, OK, so it's Old Farm Pictures and a few Dog pics.

Good for your blood pressure and stuff.

Too Many Kisses

2006-12-16T04:47:00.000-07:00

Now you see em.

We named him Pepper because of the little spots on his nose. Last night Nancy said: "Hey! His spots are gone! Sure enough! Guess he got too many kisses.

Ray drives the DeSoto at age 12

2006-12-15T08:38:00.000-07:00

Lucky cousin!

Ray's Aunt Cleo let him drive for real when he was 12.

DeSoto

2006-12-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

Nice car! GramPa was a DeSoto dealer

Mom Drove a Coupe

2006-12-13T08:47:00.000-07:00

Any day now, I'll get a call. Hey! We found this old car your Mom used to drive. Out in the barn. Covered by a dusty tarp. Can you come and get it?

Stuck on Lovers Lane

2006-12-12T05:39:00.000-07:00

My Friend Pam: If you don't have an answer yet, my mom said this was a car like your dad drove when he was dating your mom. It was black and could either be a Plymouth or Dodge.
Mom said this car was stuck along Lovers Lane on the north side of town.
Hearing that jogged my memory. My Mom had told us that was Dad’s car. Not the part about it being Lovers Lane. I guess that’s the “Rest of the story!”
Thanks to Pam and her Mom.
Picture developed in 1947.

99 Oliver

2006-11-19T05:43:00.000-07:00

I liked this 99 Oliver and got to drive it alot. I'd just driven on the highway from our farm to our Grandfather's place. Got to use "road gear."

2006-08-07T06:37:00.000-06:00

Organically grown Early Girls. First seven jars canned of 90.

Sweet as Candy!

Making Hay

2006-08-02T23:43:00.000-06:00

1952. Making a haystack. Tractor is a 1947 Allis Chalmers WC with Farmhand. Hand cranked to start. No power steering and brakes were hand levers.

1964. My dad stacking hay with the '47. Note the tank for hydraulic fluid at the back. Our Neighbor on top of the stack. When it was a stack you opened the back of the form like swinging two gates open and then pulled it from around the stack. I never stacked hay with that tractor but I "bucked" swaths into piles. By 1964 there were better ways to put up hay. This was an oat field that got hailed out.

1949 Dad's first truck and combine

2006-08-02T23:26:00.000-06:00

Seems kinda precarious!

820 John Deere disking the "mile long field" in North Dakota

2006-08-02T22:45:00.000-06:00

Probly Stay Home Today

2006-01-21T12:52:00.000-07:00

Probly Staying Home Today

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No old car expert here but you can recognize a Model A from the front.

The chrome curves in the middle to point downward.

Dad's First Car

2006-01-21T12:33:00.000-07:00

Dad's first car was this Model A Ford. He was born in 1926 and maybe about 16 years old when he got this car. I'm guessing about 1942.

My Grandfather's first car was a Hudson Terraplane probably during the 30's. I'm hoping to find a picture of it.

Custom Combining in Nebraska

2006-01-21T11:03:00.000-07:00

1953. I'm the baby being held. My Dad and Uncles went south from North Dakota to harvest "Winter Wheat".

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I like pictures of old tractors, cars, farming and Life a few years ago.

I've got some I'll share...

2004-09-16T21:21:00.000-06:00

4000 Flags memorializing those killed at the WTC and Iraq and Afghanistan -- Patriots Day Memorial NorthGlenn Colorado

About Them Carp, I Told Ya So

2004-08-24T10:25:00.000-06:00

About Them Carp, I Told Ya So

I got this hunting knife for Christmas '98 from my Mom.

My buddy, Rit, said, "What do you need a hunting knife for? You don't hunt!"

I told him, "You never know. I might decide to go fishing and be attacked by a large carp."

Turns out there is a fish called a Bighead Carp. According to recent news stories, it can jump six feet high out of the water. It can weigh up to 100 pounds. It has broken bones on people while jumping in their boat. It's here in Colorado.

Told ya!

Camel Ride

2004-08-24T10:07:00.000-06:00

Camel Ride

Nancy rode this camel August 20th at the Wyoming State Fair in Douglas, Wy.

Thanks to Hedrick's Camel & Pony Rides
Nickerson, Kansas

My Old Webpage

2004-08-13T07:05:00.000-06:00

Just saving my old webpage here: http://www.geocities.com/magnumlk2001

Click on MY VIEW on that page gets you to:
http://www.geocities.com/magnumlk2001/MyView.html

Dog Days

2004-08-11T15:55:00.000-06:00

Dog Days, Google and Cicadas. The cicadas are here. They fly like overloaded cargo planes. Sound like the Weather Bug alarm on my computer, except a higher pitch and more insistant cycle. WREE WREE WREE.

One glowered at me while pretending to be part of a chokecherry tree. But didn't wait for me to go get the digital camera. I suppose the neighbors will wonder about me over the next few days as I skulk (see definition below) around the yard, camera in hand, trying to digitally capture one.

I went to the computer, typed in "noisy insect" and learned about the life cycle of Dog Day Cicadas, the conjunction of the DogStar and the Sun, and that the Dog Days of Summer started July 3rd and end today, the 11th of August.

Now, to get a good pic of one!

skulk. 1. To lie in hiding; lurk. 2. To move about stealthily. 3. To evade work or obligation; malinger. (Must be my wife's definition since she asks what I did all day.)

Didn't Even Get Rain Here

2004-08-09T21:04:00.000-06:00

Brush likely safe; flood channeled Water moving slowly; flood intensity drops

High Water

2004-08-09T16:11:00.000-06:00

The Fort Morgan Times says: County flood biggest since 1965

High Plains View

2004-08-07T10:37:00.002-06:00

View: 1 : the act of seeing or examining : Inspection also : Survey 2 a : a mode or manner of looking at or regarding something b : an opinion or judgment colored by the feeling or bias of its holder 3 : Scene, Prospect 4 : extent or range of vision : Sight 5 : something that is looked toward or kept in sight : Object 6 : the foreseeable future 7 : a PICtorial representationsynonym see OPINION- in view of : in regard to : in consideration of- on view : open to public inspection : on exhibition (Merriam-Webster)

High Plains --- North-Eastern Colorado