Last Refuge of a Scoundrel

The Hotel Roanoke was built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, opening on Christmas Day in 1882 in a little town called Big Lick. The N...

Bridget has written a couple of books . They might make good Christmas presents. Afterword: Sadly, her blog has become invitation only,...

The Subaru is fixed and once again on the road. It has been running now for a couple of weeks, but time will tell how well the fix took this...

Subaru. Head gaskets. Again. It started overheating last week, I thought it couldn't be head gaskets since we just put them in. We tri...

Yesterday was Love Your Red Hair Day. What's not to love?

get to the range yesterday like I wanted to. I didn't go to the dentist like I was supposed to do either. Both have been rescheduled...

I got an email over the transom today (or maybe yesterday, shows you how much I check my email...about as often as I write blog posts it see...

I need to get to the range more often, and now that I'm a member I really have no excuse not to. Lately between hurricanes and doctors...

that he is right . I hope that he is wrong. And seeing what comes of relying on hope does not give one warm fuzzy feelings regarding the...

W00T!!!

Hurricane Matthew came to visit. He left us without power for not quite 24 hours which wasn't enough to melt the ice cubes in my freezer...

The lovely Mrs Hades and I were wed exactly one year ago today. I've had a good year. And to commemorate that event, this months ROT...

I remember where I was. I remember what I was doing. I remember what happened. I won't ever forget.

Yesterday was the first Redhead Festival held on the East Coast in the USA, held in Dunbar WV. I don't know if they made it or not but t...

So it looks like my schedule will be changing soon, which doesn't bode well for my involvement in the train club but should be good in o...

August marks yet another year of y'r humble correspondent circling the drain sun, for a half century now. Funny, I don't feel a yea...

one year ago today .

Happy Independence Day! This is my second 4th of July with M's family, and even though there were no fireworks due to the weather we s...

This month's ROTM is brought to you by...One More Time Happy July everyone!

David Thatcher, tail gunner in the seventh plane on the Doolittle raid over Tokyo Japan in WW2, passed away on June 22, 2016 after suffering...