http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/ en-us http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3206.html Next weekend Frank is coming out to rip the badly soiled and soaked dining room and kitchen carpet and I am preparing the way for this to occur all week. I have emptied the hutch of all the glassware and when he gets here he will slide it into the "l... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3205.html I try to maintain the thought in mind that all days are good days—especially for us who are over eighty and not sure where we are when we wake up in the morning. But it is hard to find much credit for last Friday in my mind—but I am coming around to it... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3198.html One of the kindest and most gentle men I ever knew was my paternal grandfather, Elven Brown. Actually Elven Brown was my father's stepfather and thus not truly a blood relative of mine at all. My real paternal grandfather, John Alfred Arrington Turrent... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3189.html This is to advise you that yours truly is now a licensed driver on the highways of the State Of Texas for another five years until the date of May 4 2015. My new driver's license came in the mail today. It has restrictions such as: 1. no driving on... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3182.html I recently ordered a book from a catalog and in due time received it.The book was titled "Spanish Recognitions" and told the events of the author's recent trip to Spain. The author was Mary Lee Settle and at the time she wrote the book, which was 2004... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3167.html My dogs insisted that I arise and face the world at 3:00AM this morning which is about two hours earlier than they usually call me forth from the arms of Morpheus. I staggered into the kitchen and began to prepare what the dogs and I refer to as "beef ... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3160.html While Googling on another matter I chanced upon a short biographical sketch of Girolama Cardano a person I had never heard of before and found his life so interesting and eventful that I thought that I would give you a few items from his life . Cardano... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3157.html Just to let you know what fills my days---important stuff. My new dog Sally (SO NAMED BECAUSE SHE WAS THE FIRST TO "SALLY-FORTH" FROM THE LITTER) is 51/2 months old and of indeterminant geneology. She is possessed with boundless energy and appetite ... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3156.html My grandfather, Walter Thomas Hamilton, was a man of settled habit and ritual. He did the same things every day. Coming into the farmhouse from the field or cow lot he would always stop on the backdoor step and stomp the dirt and cow manure off his sho... http://www.asylumnation.com/blogs/oxsan/post-3153.html I have been doing a bit more reading about the Hamilton clan history in Scotland to see if I should be lucky enough to identify the parents of Thomas Hamilton Sr. who came over to the United States sometime between 1725 (his birthdate) and 1750 when we...