Tag: scrap-metal bison
When the Bison Comes Tumbling Down
Just a human desire to have you come near Want to put my arms around you Feel your breath in my ear You can bend me, you can break me But you better stand clear When the walls come tumblin’ down When the walls come crumblin’ crumblin’ When the walls come tumblin’ tumblin’ down —John…
Moby Sue the Bison-Whale?
It’s been cold in North Carolina lately. Not Minnesota or Wisconsin cold, but cold enough to make working in an unheated garage very disagreeable. (We’re talking about temperatures in the mid-30s.) So I looked at the start of this week with great joy. Temperatures were moving back to the mid-50s and this meant I could…
No One Ever Said Building a Bison Was Going to Be Easy
There’s no Dave Ramsey of scrap-metal welding. In other words, I can’t fire up my Kindle and download The Seven Baby Steps to Building Your First Lifesize Bison out of Scrap Metal. Aside from the John Lopez video below, I’m basically on my own. Just me and whatever critical-thinking skills I have left from nine…
2020 Statement of Purpose
What’s the point of this blog? When Mrs. G and I first began this blog over four years ago, it was a clear-cut personal finance blog. Mrs. G and I got our financial act together rather late in life (mid-40s), and we thought our quest for financial independence was an interesting story. But since that…