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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    When the town does not even have a blinking light, only stop signs. Also street signs were added in the last decade for the purposes of 911 response operators (people needed proper addresses), and most locals still have not learned the street names. As such the majority of directions are based...
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    What's For Breakfast...

    I did not get a photo of it, but this morning I fixed a dutch baby with a pot of locally roasted coffee.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I need to watch the current, and apparently final, season of Black Sails. Lately I have been watching some Hell On Wheels and Burn Notice. Both I've seen before, but, and especially with Burn Notice, I really enjoy revisiting them.
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    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    I'm sure it's the warm weather and reruns of Burn Notice, the last two nights ended with mojitos. This evening there is a cool breeze, some Nat Sherman's Empire English and Lagavulin.
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    Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven

    Hurricane Jack, I've got ranchers, farmers, and rural, and western folk all around my family tree. Meeting them, hearing their tales of life outside the city was enough to pull me west. My love of history has become more a hobby than a profession, now that I am a stay-at-home, but with the...
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    Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven

    Thank you for the reply! I've grown more partial to open crowns recently, having always admired some of the styles of cowboy hat at the turn of the century. In the summer months I've been wearing a palm leaf that I shaped to a sort of Gus or Tom Mix. For the colder weather I wear, for the...
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    Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven

    Hurricane Jack, I'm not sure which I prefer, that fine looking hat, or that fine looking pipe.
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    This or That

    Orange juice, I prefer it fresh. Thank you for the info about looking for a more authentic malt. I'm always frustrated to walk into a place with a sign that reads "malts/shakes" only to find they do not know what a malt is, nevermind have the supplies to fix one. A day at the beach or a day...
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    This or That

    Do I have to choose? We get our milk from a local dairy. We have to shake the bottle before we serve it, and I always get some extra cream in a pint jar, just for coffee and such. The milk is wonderful the way it is, but it makes fine chocolate milk with a bit of sugar and some good cocoa...
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    Which funny videos are you watching?

    I always enjoy a little Dean Martin, especially so when Jonathan Winters is part of the skit:
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    This or That

    Hand grinder. I often use a moka express pot, and more frequently just boil it, even on the stovetop. Drip is never hot enough, I understand why my great grandmother was heard to make that very comment. If I'm having dessert coffee, that is anything more than just black, I like heavy cream...
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    What are you listening to?

    My son is quite the trainiac, much as I was at his age. He has really taken a liking to Boxcar Willie, especially because he makes the train sounds. As such before his shower we were listening to some of his favorite train songs. I've got to say, I'd much rather listen to endless playlists of...
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    What Are You Reading

    I've never read Watershed Down, but it's always been on my radar. I've finally finished an unabridged, though translated, The Count of Monte Cristo, and now am enjoying some brain candy in the form of Louis L'amours Catlow.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I watched some Fargo, I should give it a go again. My wife and I have been watching The Blacklist and Star Trek Deep Space Nine. I grew up on Star Wars and my wife on Trek. I'd watched classic Trek and the films before we met, but she saw to it that I watched the Next Generation and it's...
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    This or That

    Whole bean, grind it fresh just before using. Additionally on the topic of coffee, French Press or Drip?
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    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    For in the house we have a cat who is a fantastic mouser, but out of an effort at conservation only the dog is outside, and even that with some supervision. And recently I started carrying my Indiana Jones satchel for water, gloves, flashlight, and a small first aid kit when we're out and about...
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    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    These photos of my son and I off and about are from the last few months, the first from about 2 months ago as I was readying the horses for riding for historic interp this season, and the later two from a hike around the house in his new boots:
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    Show us your Vintage Rucksacks!

    Great looking gear here. After getting home from a trip this weekend, while unpacking, I got to wondering about rucksack storage. Do y'all just leave 'em in a closet? Do you display them? I had the idea of fixing a bracket or pegs or something to hang them on the wall in the front hall, on...
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    Typewriters

    A fantastic looking machine there, and incredible condition. I can only imagine how much fun it is to set down and type with it!
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    I figure at the heart of it, as others have pointed out, life is an adventure if you make it so. And certainly too, there is always someone just a bit more wild than the last. I have found that in moving from Queens, New York to the Davis Mountains of West Texas that my friends and family...

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