David's Adventures

The highest peak in Southern California is San Gorgonio Mountain.  It stands at 11,503 feet (more or less), and its peak set the baseline ...

For some reason I am usually aware of the passage of time in small increments.  If I look at a clock at 10:30, then for the next half-hour ...

If grown men are allowed to cry, now is the time.  The 2015 Wild Game Feed is over, and it is not coming back for a whole long, long year. ...

I’m counting down the days.  Seventeen to go.  I’ve already packed, unpacked, repacked, changed my packing list, and started over again.  M...

HELP!!!  I’m 27 years old and trapped in a 66 year old body!  A fat, balding, out of shape 66 year old body!  What Happened???  Today is my...

Service is a relative term.  Car service, room service, military service, tea service, religious service, food service—many kinds of servic...

Seventy Days and Counting Down to the 47 th Annual Wild Game Feed.  Friday, September 18, 2015 is still too far away for me, but it will a...

The dove is never an easy bird to hunt.  I say that after losing a bet with a friend over 40 years ago.  Hank and I were not much for bird ...

New Post on July 8, 2019.  51st Annual Wild Game Feed. New Post on May 30, 2018.  50th Annual Wild Game Feed. New Post on June 23, 20...

Recently I opened an old reference book I used for many years while working as an accountant.   An inserted page fell out and many old memo...

One of the world’s great vacation destinations is Hawaii.  Or so I am told.  Paris, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Florence, Athens, Amst...

Today is Hump Day.  We are half the way there.  Okay, it’s Friday, but I’m not talking about getting through the week, I’m talking about ge...

There is nothing like owning a dog, except maybe taking care of someone else’s dog.  Nothing in life prepared me for having a part-time d...

Last week was the Annual Super Bowl Gathering at the Long Beach Casting Club.  I look forward to it every year, but not for the game.  I’m ...

In case you’ve been wondering where I’ve been for a few weeks, I’ve been busy as Santa.  It was a very long season with many visits and eve...

In the early morning hours of a wet, windy day, I realized I needed to make that trip everyone has to make in the morning after waking up. ...

I like beef ribs a little more than pork ribs.  Trust me, I will never turn down pork ribs, but give me a choice and I will take the beef. ...

Nebraska is a big wide-open state with endless vistas of corn and wheat interspersed with houses, barns, and windmills.  Actually there is ...

I’ve known quiet people in my life, but one stands out as unique.  Most quiet people have a voice, and when they speak, they really have so...

It’s over for another year.  Words cannot express my agony of waiting for it to happen again.  I know time passes, and the Feed will return...

I grew up in fishing country, Texas to be exact.  Every hardware store in the state sold fishing equipment, and some even sold a few tools ...

For ten years my wife and I lived in Arizona, specifically in the Paradise Valley area of northeast Phoenix.  We didn’t live in Paradise Va...