Hailwood1965

The good thing about having three sons spread about in age is that for the foreseeable future there will always be someone around to endure my love for odd movies. Kipp, 10, now, is on the verge of not being able to take "One Crazy Summer" one more time and I can understand that. He's seen it at least 40 times, and John must have watched it with me at least that many times when he was a pre-teen. And with John, being we were alone for so much of his early days, I watched The Lion King with him, no kidding, at least 70-80 times over the course of three or four years. Right now the movie I have protected on the DVR and will watch a few minutes of when I get a chance is 1951's The Creature From Another World . This is not a film from my younger days, as way back then we only had 4-5 channels and why would they televise a cool old movie when Mel Jaas could host Bringing Up Baby one more time? I was fascinated with comic books and monster movies when I was a kid, especial...

When you have three kids, you burn through so much milk you may actually be better off owning a cow rather than buying it. Of course, that isn't true, and that opinion comes from reality. I have owned cows. I have no idea how dairy farmers make any money at all. Anyway, the milk that we provide at no cost to our kids is the stuff with seemingly the least amount of chemicals put in it post-udder. This milk is not available at a grocery store here in Red Wing; you have to get it at a small gas station on hiway 61. I usually get up at 5:00 AM or so a few mornings a week and run down, buy milk, maybe a newspaper and bring it all home. A small gas station at 5-6:00 AM is a different world than it is throughout the rest of the day. All of the customers in a small gas station at 6:00 AM are on their way home from work (third shift) or on their way to work, and a great many of them are what they now term "the working poor". I stand there, with them, in the shirt that I slept in,...