How Did The Tradition Of Giving Your Sweetheart A Valentine Get Started?

                                                                            

Valentine’s Day is observed by a

Special Bond/Hard Loss

 

Horses bring a great deal of enjoyment into one’s life, no doubt. You work hard to learn about and teach each other. If you have

Has America lost it way?

I do not use this blog as a forum for politics, but I am going to make an exception this time. I have to get several things off my chest. There are many things going on in today’s world I am struggling with. Sometimes I go to bed stewing.

I once identified as a hard-core liberal. But as I got older my beliefs have changed. Today, I lean more toward what is expressed as conservative thinking than to what I see ex

Ground Hog Day and Punxsutawney Phil

  Punxsutawney Phil  

Ground Day is a celebration of the change in season from winter to spring. It is observed on the second day of February.

What i

Purple leathers

     I have a riding buddy. We take every opportunity we can to get out in the countryside and just relax. He has a black Harley Davidson Road King Classic Tou

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The first post of this new year is very personal and, I believe, quite relatable and a true story. This story will appear in my next book entitled “Life HappensÂ

50 Hats of Aztec (There’s History Under Those Hats) New Year’s Eve Celebration

 

What started it all?

Out with the old. In with the New.  That’s a New Year’s tradition we celebrate each year. New Year’s celebratio

Crappy Day

   Gypsy Horse Cartoons

Everyone who rides horses has experienced one. Maybe even literally. I absolutely can identify with the literal version.

My wife and I an

St. Nicholas / Santa Clause Some History

 

This is a scientific reconstruction of what the real St. Nicholas may have looked like.

Santa Claus comes from the Dutch words “Sinter Klaas”.

Santa Claus is loo

Wild Game Hunting

   

A friend of mine talked me into getting up at 3:00 a.m. on a snowy Saturday morning and go hunt deer with a bow and arrow. Three in the morning with snow on the g