The Goat Pen

Get out Rat you stink.


Ahh, the memories..

Hello GBJs.

It happens to the best of us.

Hello. Also a belated congrats to aTm.

Jesus Christ, just catching up. IB has become quite the prolific poster.

“Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.”

Re: 870 vs a Mossy. I have both. Prefer the 870. Tighter slide and a steel receiver (as opposed to aluminum for the Mossberg). It’s okay for home defense if you don’t have a house full of people (like a bunch of kids). I can centerline you with a pistol without fear of hitting a close-by kid with a ...

Most people just call South Carolina “Carolina”.

Of course, their neighbor to the north is Second Carolina.

Suck it, de Gaulle.

I heard that Indiana has interest in Nate Oats. I hope they leave him alone.

‘Fisk’ is the Danish and Norwegian word for fish.

Great book. Barra did good work.

38 years and, yes, I still miss Coach Bryant.

It was a blustery, frozen night as I entered the dank, austere surroundings of the Liberty Bowl on the late December night of 1982. Slow barges lumbered down the Mighty River. Blues bands played a somber dirge - as if they were heralding in a fresh lamb to the slaughter. The Mighty Fighting Illini w...

I loved aTm’s confusion or aggravation or whatever to my “Don Sutton”.

Sutton, from Clio, Alabama never missed a turn. Ever, in nearly 800 starts. And, later, one of the best announcers in MLB. The Braves were lucky to have him.

I came here to post “Don Sutton”.

This morning a damp wind rushed in through my partially opened bedroom window and ruffled the crumpled cotton sheets. The early morning sun struggled to break through ominous gray clouds in a weak attempt to top the dark hills that roughly frame my land. The neighbors’ dogs yelped and howled at the ...

I love Costco, too. I will go in for $15 worth of AA batteries and leave with 12 lbs of ribeyes, a new desk chair, and 144 cans of baked beans.

Don’t bring her a gun. Or maybe take the firing pin out. I had a senile neighbor who heard a noise and shot and killed the neighbor’s dog thinking it was a “bad guy” coming at him. And there were kids near where he shot.

C-