This section is a mixing pot of random stories. If it didn’t fit into another section, it ends up here. Some of the stories deserve a post with longer narratives. This page is a showcase for these posts. As we go along, we’ll get categories of posts also so that if a topic is of […]
Introduction to this journal Read More »
As I write this at almost age 75 I recognize that while my own nickname is not really a secret, few of my current associates are privy to it nor how it came to be. Since 1969 I have been known as “The Buzzard” or just “Buzzard”. So how? Back then I went on a
What’s in a Name? The Buzzard Origin Story Read More »
Below is a story about a Thanksgiving tradition in the Reizner home.
Mystery Stuffing & Menus Read More »
This is a test of embedding pdf stories, but for this example, we will also paste in the text below the pdf embed. This post represents the first in a new category of stories, “Dumb Things I Have Done.” Category: Dumb Things I have Done Issue: The Human Centrifuge When we were kids the parents,
The Human Centrifuge Read More »
Given the recent conflict in the Middle East, we find ourselves in an extremely difficult and painful place. While I remain ethically and religiously connected with the State of Israel and all its people, I have mixed emotions regarding the history and actions of the Likud party, the West Bank settlement, and the horrific bloodletting
October 2023 – Interim Statement on the Hamas/Israel Conflict Read More »
As is typical, this grand excursion started with Brother George, who pledged to buy me a trip for my 50th birthday. Of course, by the time we went, I was 61, but a wow time regardless. We booked with Hatch Expeditions, an excellent provider of Grand Canyon rafting trips. We were extremely lucky to travel
Grand Canyon Adventure – 2013 Read More »
Court Square in Philippi looking northwest along Main Street (U.S. Route 250). The Barbour County Courthouse is at right. Source WIkipedia. See link below. Read more about Philippi, West Virginia, here:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippi,_West_Virginia
I have always been fond of convertibles. I will open sunroofs in January. I was asked to “adopt” a 2000 Jaguar XKR convertible the owner of which could no longer drive, but lived in rural Nebraska. Although I am now certain that the odometer was tampered I did fly out to South Dakota and drive
This is only a snippet from the 2022 Second Scotland Distillery Inspection Tour, two weeks of riding around with local guide and grand friend Thomas* McIvor. Toward the end we were overnight in Edinburg staying in a new construction apartment right under the nose of the huge castle. We were also less than a block
Edinburgh, Black Bull Pub Quiz Read More »
Cottage Grove Feeling a tad guilty for going to Scotland for two weeks with the strongly implied caution, “this is a boy’s trip” i.e. left Mare home, I proffered to take a Holland America cruise to Alaska. I, being previously ambivalent about the destination, found it pretty amazing. But this bit is from the week
Cottage Grove: Doug/Leslie Read More »
Ketchikan – canoe/jeep This snippet is part of our 2022 Alaska Cruise. Though Mare and I have cruised a reasonable amount, we tend to avoid the ship offered shore excursions. They are usually pretty good, but a poor value due to their high cost. So, on our annual Sistah’s Cruise, the girls did none and
Jeeps And Canoes Ketchikan Read More »
Ok, the “Drink Package”. Holland American Line offers a bundled drink option. It is expensive, over $60/per day, and when we first cruised with HAL we figured a need to drink over 12 cocktails a day to break even. Note that it applies to specialty coffee as well. For this 2022 venture HAL comp’d us
The following is one of the earliest in the series of Reizner Crack Pot Theories. First let’s identify the class of objects. Inanimate is pretty self-explanatory. Ancient civilizations considered that all items have some element of a spirit. I do not know if this is genuine fact. All that said I have regularly experienced evidence
THE CONSPIRACY OF INANIMATE OBJECTS Read More »
I have a fair history of accepting, gifting, buying and selling various automobiles. In college people would give me vehicles. Not great ones, but they ran. Notables included a Chrysler New Yorker (huge), a Checker Marathon complete with taxi jump seats –aka the Leprosy Cab Co. – and a Chevrolet Vega – the Oy’ Vega
The Honeymoon Moon Maryann and I wed June 3, 2001 and honeymoon’d on the Old Mission Peninsula circa Traverse City, Michigan at the Neatawanta Inn. This old lodge is owned by Bob Russell and wife. We were largely eating left over hor’s d orves and drinking opened bottles of wine at a picnic table
Paul Weinstein is my cousin. How far removed not too sure, but part of the Sirner families on my father’s side. He is either a couple of weeks older or younger than I and I do not recall which. When we were teenagers we spent time together including his going with the Reizners to Stony
Paul, Sarah Reizner and Smoking Read More »
Being Jewish, our family regularly celebrated Passover (Pesach) with the traditional Seder meal. (Seder being the Hebrew word for “order”.) The meal/celebration of the Exodus from Egypt is extremely old and observed annually all around the world. It is designed to involve children and teach them of the Exodus. One tradition, apparently adopted in
The “Hot” Afikkomen Read More »