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  1. tonyb

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    I recall older fellows with health problems telling me I would find myself in their condition should I continue in my ways, and that it would be wise of me to change certain habits while there was still time. I heard them clearly. I appreciated their concern for my future. And then I did...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can appreciate safe driving. I practice it myself. But you in that late-model AWD Ford Escape I was stuck behind for the better part of a mile … Maybe 15 mph over that well-packed snow would be reasonable. I can see even as slow as 10, on the corners or when there’s oncoming traffic. But I...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don’t suppose the first name was Mike?
  4. tonyb

    How about that vintage western look

    The people selling Bailey cowboy hats — decent hats, no woolies — priced from $240 to $850, appeared to be doing a good trade. I spotted several people toting their new hats around in those Bailey hatboxes, and a steady stream of people at their booth trying on hats. I researched the vendor and...
  5. tonyb

    How about that vintage western look

    I went to the National Western Stock Show yesterday. Its 15-day run ends tomorrow. The place was packed, on a weekday afternoon. I can only imagine the crowds when rodeo events are on (there are several of those spread over that course of the annual event). Western wear may not be quite de...
  7. tonyb

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    No foolin’. We are so prone to wasting psychic energy fretting over what is unlikely ever to happen. My late brother would run worrisome scenarios by me, to which I would typically respond, “Man, I take this as a sign that you have very few actual problems, so you gotta make some up.” The flip...
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^ There was evidence as early as age 17 or so that I would eventually be bald. Eventually arrived not long afterwards. By 22 or 23 my hair was thin on top and by 30 it was all but gone. I never made any attempt to disguise my baldness or “treat” it in any way. I’ve worn hats regularly since...
  9. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    When I was in my late adolescence/early adulthood I was all about hair and patched-up blue jeans and other things I’ll not mention here. I’m glad that tattooing wasn’t fashionable then. Changing one’s clothes, shaving one’s face and cutting one’s hair is no great challenge. Almost all the...
  10. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    ^^^^^ FWIW, I, too, have a sibling for whom I really don’t have the time of day. He’s yet to grow up, and, what with his being nearly age 70, I’m holding out little hope he ever will. So yeah, I know how disappointing it can be. Dogs have been our best friends since prehistory. While that...
  11. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I miss the stacks of newspapers at my favorite greasy spoon, and I miss that greasy spoon, too.
  13. tonyb

    Akubra Campdraft

    This thread is 15 years old today. There’s some legs for ya!
  14. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    Your Casey and our Sandy, who went the way of all things late in 2021, could have been littermates, judging from appearances. We have no idea of just what the late Sandifer’s heritage might have been. We got him from a private mutt rescue at an Adopt-a-Thon in a Petsmart parking lot in Puyallup...
  15. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ So for once I’m not the last person to figure out how to use some online tool. You don’t have to look through all 349 pages. That spyglass-looking icon on the upper right takes you to the search function. Just enter the keyword(s) and then tell it where to look. Choose “this thread.” It...
  16. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    ^^^^^^ The fellow who had the cat before us, the fellow who crossed over the bridge himself in May of last year, was cognitively incapable of providing reliable information as to the cat’s history when he moved into our place in June of 2020, after the death of the woman who had been providing...
  17. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    Does new baby have a name yet?
  19. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    Was her left ear clipped? I had a chat with a woman who is involved in a cat rescue/foster organization who told me they capture feral cats, spay or neuter them, and clip the ears of the ones who appear unsuitable for household pet status before releasing them again. The ear marking is to know...
  20. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    This is Mr. Mittens. The vet figures he’s about 14 years old. He had been a shirttail relative’s pet for his first dozen years or so, until said relative fell too ill to live outside a care facility. That’s when the lovely missus and I assumed responsibility for the cat. (The relative is since...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sounds like I should consider myself fortunate not to know who y’all are talking about.
  22. tonyb

    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    ^^^^^ I’ve traversed Montana many times myself, going back more than half a century. My wife and I honeymooned there. We’ve considered moving there, even, but acknowledge that those are mostly romantic notions. There are now 8 billion people on the planet. That’s right about triple what it was...
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    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    I recently discovered this writer. (Her criticism of the criticisms of "It’s a Wonderful Life" is spot on. You may wish to look that up, too.) She makes the point that a tourist is a tourist no matter how he or she tries not to look or play the part, far better than I ever have...

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