Sunday, June 5, 2011

The Monkey

Today Buckman and I are going to try something different.  We are releasing two blogs together on the same subject at the same time.  We are doing this to give you both sides of the situation.  Let us know what you think.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

For the Good of the Child

My six year old son Bo was expecting to go fishing Saturday. He had been good all week long in school. He said I had promised to take him fishing if he was good in school that week. I remember no such promise, but it didn’t take much to convince me to take my son fishing regardless.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Reducing our Dependency on Foreign Oil

 

You may feel this is a stretch. How can I link our dependency on foreign oil with duck hunting? The truth is that everything we do today is tied to the use of oil. This means that the price of oil affects every aspect of our lives. When the price of crude oil spikes like it has in recent weeks, it drives the price of everything up. If you haven’t noticed this means more than the price of gas and shotgun shells, but also more important things, like groceries. If you do not have a family this may not mean much to you, but as a father of two, this has a great impact on the amount of disposable income I have to spend on things like hunting and fishing..

Monday, May 23, 2011

The Craziness of the End of the Year

As you know most of us here at Briary River are teachers.  This is a crazy time for us.  We are winding things down, kids are ready to be out of school, and so are we. But the end of the year means paper work, and spring practice for Buckman and Bernie.  As you may have noticed the blogs have been a little sporadic lately.  We want to apologize for this.   As soon as everything gets settled down we will be back to our Sunday Wednesday schedule. 

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Buying American Made

 

Buying American made products is absolutely crucial to stabilizing the American economy. Buying American made products is becoming harder to do as most products available in the marketplace today were produced in other nations. There are a combination of factors in play that are adding up to fewer American made products being available for sale.