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Topical. Or, not.

I thought I’d try and write a blog post a couple of times a week. Then, I thought maybe once a week. I’m tickled at this point that I’m hitting a little better than one a month. Barely.

We’re still not accepting advance orders. The products we do ship with the Postal Service are up there with tossing a marble on a roulette wheel in Vegas. They may arrive, they may not. Either way, they’ll likely take a tour of the country before they land somewhere.

Not much to talk about that you haven’t already seen sewer pipes full of over the past several months. Depending on your political persuasion you’re either really happy or really screwed.

As a lot of you know, I took a social media break last summer. Dumped all of them for six months, and started back a couple of months ago from zero. Fact is, social media does very little for my businesses. Other folks mileage may vary, but for me, the hours are nowhere near worth the return. This time around, I’m using them primarily to be a smartass, and show a few photos/videos of what we’re doing around here when the mood moves me. There’s not much chance of my becoming an “influencer.” It’s a lot more fun when it’s not a “job.”

Beyond that, I got nothin’. I’ll be tracking the Presidential Dementia Project with the rest of you.

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First Monday of 2021.

GIBSON, 1911, LEATHER, OWB, HOLSTER, CONCEAL, BELT SLIDE, PANCAKE, KIMBER, PRO RAPTOR, RAPTOR, COMMANDER

Not a lot to talk about. We’ve got a brand-new year, and probably the weirdest one I’ve seen in this lifetime. The fear-factor we’ve all come to know and love is in full blossom. Thanks to folks like Steve Jobs and that Microsoft guy (Bill Gates) we have a million ways to spew terror and garbage that we didn’t have twenty or so years ago. The media can’t keep up, though they do their best. Anybody with a smartphone is now a reporter, analyst, photographer, and newscaster. Veracity be damned. Accuracy and reality are mere nuisances. If you’re a network of any sort or have a decent number of YouTube subscribers, then you can be sponsored/supported by a myriad of pharmaceutical companies.

Obesity, diabetes, stress, can’t sleep, can’t poop, issues with feelings, aging, skin issues, hair greying, aches, pains, emotions, depression, sugar, fat, cholesterol, fleas, ticks …we have drugs or vaccines for all of that and more. Invariably, once you’ve taken the drugs and vaccines, you’ll need a lawyer, or team of lawyers, to represent you and seek reparations for the side effects which range from cancer to bleeding from the ass.

It’s Monday. I needed a post for the blog here, and I didn’t really have anything to talk about. Clearly, I still don’t.

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Believe half of what you see…

…and none of what you hear. That was attributed to Ben Franklin, but you can’t believe it because of all of the above. It’s also been attributed to Edgar Allan Poe. I still think it’s good advice, considering the quandary we all find ourselves in. The less I see and hear, the smaller the shovel I need to keep handy.

Knip Knife, Terry Knipschield, custom, French, leather knife, round knife, head knife,
French style round knife from Terry Knipschield in Rochester, Minnesota.

My newest round knife, aka head knife, etc., is the one above from Terry Knipschield up in Minnesota. Terry hasn’t been accepting orders for the last several months (to my knowledge) as he’s been rebuilding his knife shop. When he does get back to building knives again, I highly recommend them. I got this one almost a year ago, and finally decided to show it off.

That’s about all I have for today. It looks like we’ve got about fourteen days left in 2020, and we can kick this pig in the ass and send it on its way.

Just in case I get lazier and don’t do another blog post this month, thank you for reading. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and God Bless you and yours.

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