David's Adventures

In August 1975 I moved to California.   I left my job with the company where I had worked for many years, picked up and just moved.   My par...

I discovered the joy of canoeing at a summer camp when I was thirteen years old, and for about thirteen more years the canoe remained my fa...

Pecan Pie Blackberry Cobbler Peach Cobbler Pecan Pralines Texas Sheet Cake Buttermilk Pie Texas Soggy Cake (Tres Leches)...

Biggie is now five years old, and he has been in my life for two years.   As I explained before in “Biggie”, he is my neighbor’s dog, but my...

My friend Mike had a dog he wanted to train to hunt.   On the surface, this sounds reasonable, but when one considers Mike and I were only s...

A couple of weeks ago was Super Bowl XLVII.    Each year I try to watch this game, and some years I succeed, and some years I don’t succeed....

The Long Beach Casting Club has a cement casting pond that is the delight of every dog and child in Long Beach, not to mention the walkers...

For a number of years I have fished the surf at the nearby beaches with my spinning rigs, and have been successful more often than not.   T...

Okay, I hear you.   When I gave out the recipe for Jalapeno Brisket, I mentioned the cornmeal biscuit, and I didn’t include the recipe.   ...

Texans aren’t known for their subtlety.   Personalities tend to be as big as the state, and smiles are as wide as the horns on their famous ...

In the mid-seventies I returned to Roaring River State Park in Missouri for the last time.   I guess I had been there at least 20 times in t...

Anyone who knows me knows I believe that everything goes better with a couple of big cheese enchiladas.   Brisket, chicken, beans, salad...