Here are the current top-most items on my perpetual bedside pile:
- I finished reading The Rancher Takes a Wife. (That I described in a previous column.) What a great book! The last part of the story told of some extreme difficulties that Pan (Rich’s friend and business partner) and his wife went through up at the Home Ranch 200 miles from the nearest town. It was a true test of strength and stamina. I won’t tell any more, so as not to give the story away. I highly recommend folks reading these books. I still have to read Richmond Hobson’s second book, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
, which I had skipped. (I was anxious to read about Rich’s courtship and marriage in his third book.)
- Jim just watched a DVD on Model 1911 pistol detail disassembly and cleaning, featuring master pistolsmith Teddy Jacobson. Jim really liked its thoroughness and the close-up photography. Teddy Jacobson really knows his stuff and he positively exudes his decades of knowledge in his videos. There are now 23 videos in the series, and Jim highly recommends them. Some of the models covered in the series include Glock pistols, SIG pistols, and S&W revolvers.
- The next video I plan to watch is the Backyard Food Production DVD. Jim watched it before we got married, but I haven’t yet seen it.
- I just started skimming through a couple of books, edited by Abigail R. Gehring, released in 2009 and 2010 by Skyhorse Publishing. They are titled: Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency. They are are chock full of beautifully detailed photos. More later.