The Rodent Blog |
Kangaroo Rat: They live in the arid southwest. They hop on their back feet like little kangaroos, although they are not related to them. In Texas, they are endangered. We have them in our pasture,...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:48:00 GMT |
Things That Go Boo! In The Night |
I've got to stop telling people about the ghost.We have one, at the plant, if you believe in such things. It was a huge plant, with over 1000 employees and over 300 contractors in 2007. It had been ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:15:00 GMT |
Say It Ain't So, Bill |
David Carradine was found dead in his Bankok hotel room early this morning. His TV series, Kung Fu, was primarily responsible for my getting into martial arts at age 10. Bruce Lee was very cool, but...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:17:00 GMT |
The Amazing Mushroom |
This thing came up in my front yard. It's huge. A foot tall, with a head the size of a salad plate.I have been watching it for a few days now. It was smooth and white, now it's getting old and pitt...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 21:52:00 GMT |
Time Out |
I have been hunting for a better job since last September, when I got this one. I was making nearly $17 an hour for Saint Gobain, and since I am a workaholic that LIVES for overtime, I was bringing h...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 20:00:00 GMT |
Songs From High School |
I went to high school in Hobbs, New Mexico, from 1977 to 1980. It was a small oilfield town where the big thing to do of a weekend was drag Broadway. I didn't have a TV in my room, the PC didn't exi...
Posted by on Fri, 15 May 2009 14:28:00 GMT |
Call Me |
Have you ever noticed how many songs have been written about the telephone? I'm guessing this is because of the universal angst of waiting for someone to call. I didn't do a great deal of waiting by...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 20:59:00 GMT |
Dammit, Jim! |
The girlchild and I just returned from the new Star Trek movie. It rocks. It gave several nods to the original series, with the characters using their trademark lines at appropriate times. I grew u...
Posted by on Sun, 10 May 2009 17:29:00 GMT |
April Showers Bring... |
Grass. Lots of grass. 20 acres of it. If you listen, you can hear it growing. Things around here are usually brown, but during the spring rainy season, this part of Texas rivals the Emerald Isle f...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 21:29:00 GMT |
Meet My Little Friends.. |
It strikes me that cats and Mafioso have a lot in common.They both have ulterior motives. They don't make nice without expecting a payoff of some kind.They're both deadly, no matter how cute and cudd...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:05:00 GMT |
