Never bring a gun to a knife fight
On a lighter note. Did you ever catch your parents going at it? 
Poor Dad got good and drunk (not something he normally did) so he could have âThe facts of life talkâ with me. I let him off the hook easy and didnât bother to tell him he had already given me a good example.
Thank god no but I have heard them infrequently. 
No , they both virgins, besides my mum is only 16.
Most likely professional gamblers. The pepper box was a favorite weapon for a close and personal shot. It was wasnât all that accurate after 5 or so feet. But at a few feet, such as at a table, it could deliver a small caliber bullet fairly well.
No, but I suspect that was why we kids were told to go outside and play. Not to come back until supper a good many times.
I grew up in the country. There were plenty of times that siblings and friend had an impromptu fish dinner of either bass, perch, or pan fish. In the spring, summer, and into the fall. It was not all that unusual for any kid to be eating mulberries or making a salad of edible wild plants.
It was the 1970âs and if you were growing up in a rural or country area. you learned what to eat and when it is in season. Woodcraft was just something a kid learned. Either with hunting with his parent(s) or in the boy/girl scouts.. Often it was both the scouts and parent(s).
A different time. When you were allowed to leave the yard and ride your bike wherever you wanted. We could be anywhere in a 15 or 20 mile radius of home. Did our parents even know where we were more than half the time. I seriously doubt it.
Plus we had the best music. Outside of disco that is.. But yep, we drank out of a hose. Played tackle backyard football without helmets are padding. That is American football to those across the pond. Picked up games of baseball and basketball.
Built tree houses that sometimes better than 20 feet off the ground. All with rope, lumber, and nails scavenged where we could. Could track a deer to where it was. Even could tell just about tell when a deer or animal had left a track. If a kid brought a gun to school it was locked up in his truck or car. Just about everyone that I knew. Generally carried a knife. As we all worked on and around farms. It was just a tool.
Yeah, we had it good and didnât know it. Today parents are afraid to let a child roam. For some kids there entire week is so scheduled. That I wonder when those children even have time to be a child.
But for all that I have no illusions of that time either. The unspoken racism. The homophobia that was always present. The bullying that adults would turn a blind eye to. Leaving it to us kids to defend ourselves or get our butts beat.
Though no one thought about shooting up a school or a workplace. Still we kids survived and made it to adulthood.
Time to go to sleep⌠night night lovelies!
Also: this one is not NSFWâŚ
âŚand will fuel nightmares
Photograph: Happy Easter, 1926. Details unknown (for the better, probably).
My mum grew up in a village, used to ride her mumâs bike when she wasnât looking. Zaera adopted her love of cycling. Did a 120 mile route once a week when was at school, and cycled round the country once with friendâs cycle club.
They donât look very happy.
Perhaphs their mining barges just got ganked.
Reminds me of this old story:
There was a mighty spaceship with a curious crew exploring the breadth and depth of the cosmos and as they would then come to a new world in their exploration⌠a new planetâŚa new solar system, they would then with their curiosity investigate, interactâŚshareâŚtradeâŚexchange, taking what they needed of that which was freely given to them, giving back that which was what the world might need, what the people on the world might need.
And one day in the midst of such an exchange, the crew was asked by the inhabitants of one of the worlds they were visiting, âExactly, tell us if you would, with this great, great majestic ship you have orbiting our world, tell us if you would just exactly how powerful are you?â
And the captain of the crew said in response to this question, âOur ship can boil your seasâŚturn them to steam, level your cities in the wink of an eye, turn your entire population to dust in an instantâ. âOhâ, said the inhabitants, âthat is very powerfulâ. âNoâ, said the captain, âWhat gives us our power is that we would never do such a thing, that is how powerful we areâŚthat we have this at our disposal and would never use it that wayâŚthat is how powerful we areâ.
Good morning!
Iâm going back to being normal.
He is wearing armor to protect him from Zaeraâs fearsome peaceful cat
