Butch Dale
Butch Wants to Fly Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn…Apple seed and apple thorn…Wire, briar, limber lock…Three geese in a flock…One flew east…One flew west…And one flew over the cuckoo’s nest. I sometimes think the American…
Read MoreButch’s Childhood Keepsakes
I admit it…I am a saver. I hate to throw anything away. I was brought up that way. My folks rarely threw anything away. When Dad made something from wood,…
Read MoreButch Takes A Back Road Home
Every so often, when I leave work in the evening, instead of heading straight home, I drive down County Road 400 North, southeast of Darlington…the road I lived on as…
Read MoreButch Buys Beatle Boots!!!
When I started sixth grade in the fall of 1960, I just knew I was going to continue having loads of fun goofing off in the classroom, just like I…
Read MoreButch Gets A New Phone In 1958 !!!!
Except for a few diehard holdouts, just about everyone has a cell phone today. Teenagers consider their cell phones absolute necessities. Many parents even purchase phones for their elementary school…
Read MoreRandom Thoughts and Observations
I quit watching TV news, including cable channels. I do scan the news headlines on the internet each morning, but seldom read the details. Same stuff, different day. Weird people…Woke…
Read MoreAsk Rusty – I’m Concerned About Social Security Solvency
Dear Rusty: I retired at age 58. My husband and I worked 40 years of employment each. I had a 401K only…no other benefits. We saved, we invested through our…
Read MoreButch Munches On Candy And Watches The World Go By
When I was eleven years old in 1959, I was really raking in the dough. During the summer, in between baseball practices and games, I mowed seven yards in town…
Read MoreButch Wonders What Ever Happened To Randolph Scott?
Like many of you “Baby Boomers,” I spent many hours at the movies in the 1950s. Charlie Marshall owned the Sunshine Theater in Darlington. A ticket was 25 cents and…
Read MoreGrandma’s Cooking Was Suh-WEET !!!!
As I mentioned in an earlier column, as a youngster I spent quite a bit of time at my Grandpa and Grandma Dale’s house. Grandma Dale, like most of the…
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