In our never ending effort to cut household expenses and operating cost my wife and I decided to purchase a toaster oven. We live in a rural area where gas (propane) is our source of heat and cooking. There was a time when this was much cheaper than electric and so it made sense to [...]

I grew up in a very small town and there were no McDonald’s, Taco Bells, nor Pizza Huts. You had to drive about 22 miles to the closest town large enough to have any of these. My first trip to McDonald’s was in 1970 and I was about 14 years old. I’m here to tell [...]

Folgers Coffee once had a jingle that went, “The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup”. Now I don’t know if they still use that in commercials or not but as a dedicated coffee drinker I can tell you that is a very correct statement. Like most everyone our household has to [...]

Ok I fess up, I must be getting old because I enjoyed metal detecting. At least that was one of the many definitions I once had for “old” was seeing men out in the fields around where I grew up using metal detectors. Over the years my interest in this hobby became addictive. It is [...]