Aumann Auction will be selling a museum collection soon, and you will want to watch this on the internet, if not in person. Take your big billfold with you! This is an extremely rare opportunity.
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Monday, July 13, 2026
Susan And David, The Early Days...
Time does get away from you. Susan and I just passed our 51st wedding anniversary, and we still are feeling young and energetic. We are also glad to be retired so we don't have to run off to work every morning. Every evening we set up the coffee maker and remark that we can hardly wait for 5 o'clock so we can have coffee. We met totally by accident at Mizzou many years ago and soon started dating. The first time she met my roommates, one of them said, "Wait until you hear the kind of music he listens to!" Turned out that she liked my kind of music. Our phone calls nearly always ended with one of these songs, way back in the 70s.
My Lady Of The Telephone
Hello Cutie
Everybody Calls Me Honey
True Blue Sam The Traveling Man
Sunday, July 12, 2026
FIRE!
Hoo Boy! Midwest Schipperke Rescue has been working on placing dogs from the Eagle Point, Oregon hoarding situation since January 6, and the end is in sight. Ten dogs are still at Dogs For Better Lives, and Susan has been on the phone and email all day (Sunday, July 12) making final arrangements for adoptions and transport. Moving the last ones became an emergency early Sunday because of a forest fire (four square miles!) north of Central Point, and the smoke is rolling in. DFBL may have to evacuate. Studying the aerial and ground photos, the facility is not really in danger of burning, but that mountainside just north of DFBL is low trees, just the kind of fuel that burns ferociously. Our transporter is picking up two dogs early tomorrow and delivering those to California and Nevada, then going back for the rest, which will be coming east. One of them will go all the way to New Hampshire. This week will be busy with many communications to adopters and the transporter.
If strong winds come out of the north, Dogs For Better Lives will be getting a load of smoke!
Lots of clean, defensible space around the facility.
We will be watching the fire weather for SW Oregon!
Wilbur heads to California Monday!
The Grinding never ends!
UPDATE!!! Our transporter had a vehicle breakdown and has postponed the first pickup until the week of July 20. Susan had to make a lot more calls to let the adopters readjust their schedules, but she got it done. Pray for favorable winds and moderate fire weather in southwest Oregon. The action is on the north end of the fire the last time I checked.
Weekend Steam IV: Start Them Young!
Beautiful cross-compound showman's engine! Note the baby being inoculated with steam fever! Thanks, Merle!
Saturday, July 11, 2026
16th Annual Young Leader Pistol Shoot, Carmi Rifle Club
Carmi Rifle Club and the White County (IL) Farm Bureau hosted the 16th annual Young Leader Pistol Shoot on July 11, 2026. It was a cloudy and cool day for July and all the participants had a great time. Sponsors and entry fees support several scholarships given to local high school graduates every year.
Winners got ammo, and one got a new Browning!
The lucky ones who braved a nasty forecast and came anyway!
Friday, July 10, 2026
Thursday, July 9, 2026
Splittin' Hickory!
Those big rounds are killers! Tomorrow I will be lifting them with the tractor! The bottom eight feet of the stem is bug eaten and punky, the rest is really good wood.
Wednesday, July 8, 2026
I See Dead Hickories!
The hickory in this video has been dead for about a year, evidently struck by lightning during one of the many thunderstorms. I found another one near the north barn, so we will have some high Btu wood in the barn for cold days. The speed with which hickory rots after it dies is stunning. Don't waste time thinking about it, Get it down, buck it, split it, get it under cover!
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