Great photo. Beige hats are, of course, perfect for sneaking around in the dark. Reminds me of how one member of my family once threw another one a white market bag ("Here's the credit card!") to get some fruit from somebody else's orchard. Family number two said: Why not give me a fluorescent dog ...

@Tracy Just imagine Ben helping the boys with school projects... .

@dougsgirl Funny, they’re already acting alike, aren’t they?


That's the way I imagine it:

Adam would insist on doing it alone, without any help from Pa. He'd end up with a fully-working water mill.

After three attempts to do ...

I think the background looks so modern because the light-colored wood paneling looks a lot like glass.

I like it, too. Maybe it was a ruse to direct attention away from the facial details of the horse -- in a separate threat, I wrote that Buck must have been played by at least two horses, one of which was a gelding and the other one a mare. They looked very similar, but apart from the obvious (many ...

Adam was just great -- both convincingly intellectual and rugged.

Sahra: You smoked a pipe?!? :smoking


I did. I don't remember when I started, I just remember when I quit smoking altogether: Five years ago. Before that, I smoked tobacco in all its forms, but mostly pipes and cigars. Even in pipes I preferred the rather pungent types of tobacco, like Bell's ...

dougsgirl Since you seem to be interested in that subject: Peterson came up with two novelties in pipe-making. One was a second chamber in the bowl that was meant to collect excess moisture and direct it away from the charred lining of the bowl into a more absorbent part of the briar. The second ...

Great photos. You can even tell that all pipes are Petersons. Petes existed as early as 1865 but could only be bought in Dublin back then. Expensive as hell fire and brimstone, but some of the best and definitely most beautiful ones.

Those two always remind me of my father and his oldest son -- who is also the oldest of my younger brothers. My father sometimes refers to him as "your older brother".

Cesar must have had his reasons when he said that round men with healthy-looking faces who sleep at nights are not likely to be troublemakers.