Seems right to start with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys Leaving Tulsa, Some Asleep at the Wheel ...

 A day for remembrance and celebration.   

I took this shot exactly where I took the earlier sets showing autumn color.  In the earlier set, you can see a morning shot with the usual ...

There are wildfires all over. There’s been so little rain that there’s a state burn ban, a county burn ban, and people are still out burning...

I made the beef short ribs according to Cowboy Kent Rollins recipe, which Grim recommended some posts ago . I had to use a slow cooker inste...

Apparently, 20-somethings are listening to a lot of this hybrid swing these days. Youngsters these days. (You'll have to imagine the eye...

Since we have been getting so many anonymous comments lately, I thought I should repost the comments policy . It's very old: in 2015 it ...

If you were wondering if things are moving behind the scenes this should tear it for you .  United States Marine Corps Major Gen. Chris A. M...

The Orthosphere : Rod Dreher has written another thumb-sucker about the evil that lurks in the hearts of all men, which is true enough but n...

... decade, century-so-far, etc ... President Biden ran for office to restore the soul of the nation. He is unequivocal: there is no place f...

For further reflection, the Pope’s remarks on holiness . 

I want to speak on this occasion to a comment left by our friend Lars Walker in the Níðstöng Pole  post below. Halloween seems like the righ...

Let’s try something different. Most of you probably have enough ground to dig a hole in. If not, you can substitute an oven.  Let’s do this ...

 The first two are fun to watch, too.

An old custom is showing a revival in Iceland.  Nithing poles such as this have been popping up in Iceland more and more over the last few ...

So I saw an article about this program that the UK's Exeter University is offering, but they're really burying the lede here: The...

I went to see GWAR in Asheville. It was cartoonishly violent and profane, much akin to a heavy metal Looney Toons as influenced also by He M...

A short retelling of the story of Guthred , whose tale has similarities to that of the famous Cimmerian. Simeon wrote that a local abbot was...

This is the same location as a week ago , but now at the height of autumn.  The afternoon sun is golden at this hour this time of the year, ...