My shovel dug up his granddaddy
I was clearing some sticker bushes in the way back of our property, and dug up this HUGE shovel head. It must have been for coal? sand? gravel? I don't…
Behind Mount Rushmore
Drive around behind Mount Rushmore, it's a handy navigational aid. But why are they naked? I found this at a garage sale yesterday, and put it in with the pile…
Dodge City Scene
There's a lot going on in this Dodge City postcard. At first I thought the guy in the street outside the cigar store had slipped in some horse poop, but…
Daring daylight robbery
Here's a postcard from the sleepy little town of Oil City, Pennsylvania - but wait! In the lower right, you can clearly see three ex-convicts in drag preparing to rob…
Beach Adventures
We haven't been to the beach yet this summer, my mother psyched me out too much when I was a kid, she was so concerned the undertow would drag me…
Better bury this before mom sees it
Found this handy dirt-strainer with my metal detector, in the woods behind the house. I imagine years ago some kid was messing around in the dirt with his mom's good…
Buggles at dawn
Teresa gets up way, way too early. Like, 10 minutes to 6 early. WHY? She doesn't have some nine-to-five downtown, or a paper route. No, she does it so she…
Biloxi Chow
Here's a postcard from a young man training at Biloxi to (I presume) his girlfriend back home. Or maybe his girl friend. Back then I think a guy could be…
First day with metal detector
Ordered a Garrett Ace 300 for a sort of Fathers Day present, it came today so naturally I put it together right away and started snooping around in the back…
What is this thing?
My father passed away last year, he had a lot of neat old tools. A master craftsman, he was also a problem solver. My question is, what problem is this…