Spare Parts

Wringing Out the Old, Wringing in the New

By Buster McNutt Lady M. and I just finished with our every-30-years colonoscopy “screening,” and now the septic tank is demanding equal time. I was...

Cats and Squirrels and Deer – Oh My!

By Buster McNutt It did not turn out to be a great trade-off after all. Several months ago our neighbors with the 13 cats moved...

Happy Clunker Birthday

By Buster McNutt Unless my parents lied about when I was born (as in, Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Boogieman, Storks dropping babies down the chimney,...

A Belt in the Lap is Worth Two in the Mouth

By Buster McNutt Here in Florida the law says you have to be belted in your moving car or truck, but you don’t have to...

Why Must the Pedestrian Cross the Road?

By Buster McNutt Let’s see. Things that don’t go together: oil and water, Cleveland sports teams and championship trophies, calf’s liver and anything else in...

Tow Jams, Fruit Cakes, and Flying Bug Guts

By Buster McNutt My S-10 pickup has a sports hernia. Apparently, 20-year-old compact pickup trucks were never meant to tow 24-year-old, 24-foot pontoon boats, especially...

Strategic Clunker Reserve

By Buster McNutt Forget gold coins, pre-1965 silver coins, and those rare 1973 one dollar bills with Alfred E. Newman’s picture on the front, and...

Annual State of the Buster Address

By Buster McNutt By the time you read this, I will generously NOT have won the $1.6 billion dollar Powerball Lottery. I practiced last week...

Why Didn’t the Turkey Cross the Road?

By Buster McNutt The way I see it, the raccoon killed the deer. The turkey was just in the wrong place at the wrong time....

Stop the week; I want to get off!

By Buster McNutt Some weeks are just weaker than others. On a 0-to-10, “skip the blood pressure medicine and have another drink” scale this last...