In the site survey I put myself down as being "retro" and had my doubts about being such. But after reading the other posts concerning this status, scratching my head and other parts of my anatomy which I will not mention; I believe that I may be classified as being somewhat beyond being just plain old Retro. You see, as I sit here listening to the Eagles and Giants go at it and getting more than an ocassional whiff of my homemade beef stew cooking away in cast iron, I look around my hidey hole sanctuary and count five kero fired lamps plus extra chimneys, a retro lava lamp, one middle age Plott hound sleeping on the couch (Mr. Bingo is my bear hunting hound dog and best buddy), three vintage open razors I am presently working on, a nice vintage Certified/Sanitary 144A barber shop strop, forty plus tobacco pipes, one hookah for an ocassional cool flavored smoke, an eight day westminster chime wind up clock, two vintage aneroid barometers and outside the door an old Mercedes turbodiesel station wagon which I much prefer to drive over any other horseless carriage I have tried in recent years. Inside my bathroom there reside three or four mugs/scuppers, various styles of double edge razors and the current razor which I shave with when I am feeling lucky; the doc put me back on Plavix and aspirin, so I must be extremely careful not to bleed myself out while trying to get that wonderfully close shave which we all aspire to. I take my doc's advice seriously and intend to delay as long as possible that giant yard sale my wife will be having after I go to That Great Barber Shop in the Sky. After considerably more scratching an mulling over the subject at hand, should I change my site name to "Really Retro Rick" ???


Wishing All An Exceptionally Happy New Year;
hope to be around more in 2009.

Rick