Tag Archives: memories

Stetson man encounters deadly monster in a local pond

January 4th 2016 dawned cold and sunny. I decided to head to a local body of water to do some early season ice fishing. I had no idea of the horror that waited for me in the shallows! I had heard reports that some vicious white, and yellow perch had been attacking children who waded […]

An open letter of disgust to the Life Savers Candy company…(Warning naughty words implied)

Dear Destroyers of Tradition, WHEN the flippin HECK did the Life Savers Story Books come full of nothing but FIVE MOTHER JUMPING Flavors???? EFF YOU, YOU EFFING MOTHER JUMPERS!!!!!! EFF YOU!!!!! I will never ask Santa for one again! YOU EFFING A-HOLES!!!! Where’s the Butter Rum??? HUH??? Where’s the Tropical Fruit? ANSWER ME! And what […]

CHRISTMAS! Can you say “B-a-a-a-a-ah!”?

I often write stories about my three goats, ‘Smeck’, ‘Kramer’, and ‘Billy’. Today, I am going to write about sheep. These sheep are all around us! These are the people who have been sucked into the commercial aspect of Christmas! When I was a kid growing up in the 70’s, people used to get paid […]

“The Phantom Buck”…A poem for deer hunters

My mother, Beverly VanBuren wrote this poem for me back in the 1980’s when I was a young gunner. I loved it so much that memorized it, and to this day can recall it with ease, and as I recall the words, I can see the images, as if from a movie in my mind… […]

Take an annoying little brother, add an angry turtle…

When I was a kid, my younger step brother was always bugging me. It wasn’t that he wanted to hang around with his older brother, and his friends, he just REALLY wanted to bug me. If we were riding bikes over jumps, he would run out and rip the board off the block just before […]

I sure wish it was warmer….Wait…NO I DON’T!

So last night got pretty chilly.  It’s 10 am and the frost is still pretty thick in my yard, even where the sun is shining.  The goats are oddly quiet.  They are still huddled in their little barn, keeping each other warm.  All three cats stayed inside last night. I logged into facebook this morning, […]

The great Sebasticook Lake drawdown conspiracy

Every autumn, the water level on Sebasticook Lake in Newport is partially drained, for the winter. Then in the spring the dam is closed, and the water is allowed to rise in time for the summer festivities Last year the water level was the lowest I had ever seen it since I first started ice-fishing there. […]

Is your kid trying to guilt you into a sick day?

My kid hates school. I don’t mean he dislikes it with a passion, he HATES it. It is a fight to get him out of bed more often than it isn’t. He has started in already with the old, “I don’t feel good routine”. Last year we gave him the benefit of the doubt. In […]

Memories of hunting with a dog named Sierra – “The Duck Call”

I got up at 6:00 am yesterday morning, and apparently there was some truth after all to the blood moon heralding in the “END OF TIMES!!!”  because there was the sound of non stop gunfire coming from the direction of Newport…either that, or it was the opening day of duck hunting season, 2015, and the […]