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“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Buffalo Chips
Not everyone winds up with a good memorial. Charley White died at the battle of Slim Buttes on September 9, 1876 – the battle that shifted control of the Sioux Wars to the US Army after Custer’s defeat at the Little Bighorn. He was buried on the battlefield, then dug up by Lakota warriors. The Read more
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Through the Thick Smoke
The smoke was too thick to see Brimstone when I answered the phone – the question was “How are you doing?” It took a while to realize that the news had us threatened by fire. As I’m writing this, the fire is still a dozen miles to the south. I spent an hour inside Trego Read more
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Housing Availability
There’s a fairly simple formula for indexing housing affordability. If you have the mean family income, and go to purchase a house at the mean cost, and qualify exactly for a mortgage, the index is 100. A higher number – say 110 – means that housing is more affordable. A lower number – say 90 Read more
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Fire Meeting Held Saturday at Trego School
The ability to livestream a meeting is a wonderful thing- when it works. The school has fiber optics and seldom has issues with connectivity during board meetings, so the connectivity issues were a bit of a surprise to those that chose to watch from home. The other lesson we learned is that when Inciweb is Read more
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Voting for the Lesser Evil
The lesser of two evils is still evil. I’m not sure how often I have voted for the lesser evil. In 2020, for sure. Definitely in 2016. Heck, the first election I could vote in was 1972 . . . choosing between Richard Nixon and George McGovern. Next time (1976) I could choose between Gerald Read more
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The Old Colt Trooper
The serial number tells me that my Colt Trooper left the factory in 1954. When I got it, the grips were from the 1960’s, with gold medallions – so I didn’t see anything wrong with taking them off and replacing them with a set of Pachmayr grips. A lot of parts get changed on Colt Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 