A wise person thinks much about death, while the fool thinks only about having a good time now.” –Ecclesiastes 7:4 (NLT) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The weather had broken, but the temperature was still down around ten degrees so the snow was…
Echoes From the Campfire
The pursuit [of gold and wealth] was a dream—a glittering allurement; the possession incited a lust for more, and that was madness.” –Zane Grey (The Border Legion) “Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’–and do not…
Coffee Percs
I melted snow water in a lard pail. I don’t think hot coffee ever hit the spot more than it did on that night of the Arctic blizzard.” –Richard P. Hobson, Jr. (Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy) “It’s a fact that you’re gettin’…
Echoes From the Campfire
A bitter and bleak world it was, with the peaks obscured and enshrouded, and sending earthward the eerie scream of the gale as it sheered the sharp points; a world of torturing cold and uneasy loneliness.” –Ernest Haycox (Chaffee of Roaring Horse) …