Friday, December 19, 2025

Pitts, Lee

Save The Ice Cube

I have lived for most of my life within 10 miles of San Luis Obispo, CA, or SLO as it's known. Normally I hate...

Everybody Looks Better In A Cowboy Hat

When I taught myself how to engrave silver conchas I practiced on coins. Most of it was foreign coinage but occasionally I'd practice on...

Name Your Poison

Today's lesson is about poisonous plants, dangerous delectables and fatal feedstuffs. I'm talking nightshade, lupine, milkweed, and the poison used to kill Socrates: hemlock....

Slow Moving Traffic

If all the cars in the world were placed end to end... they'd probably be behind a slow moving cattle truck.     Everyone is in such...

Don’t Eat The Bait

The Cigarette Act of 1965 required labels on packages to warn consumers about the dangers of smoking. Although, if people who inhaled smoke all...

A Losing Battle

We've turned the corner on beef consumption and it's back on the rise after more than a decade of falling like a sack of...

I Don’t Brake For Cows

I don't know why my friend Joan sent me Allen Swift's obituary, other than the fact he was the oldest living owner of a...

He/She Cowpeoples

If I may be permitted to do so, I'd like to come to the defense of one of my favorite places on earth: the...