December 24, 2021December 24, 2021Other eras Breaking technology news – Experiment to use gigantic kite to power a commercial cargo ship. Um, the Vikings perfected that technology 1000 years ago… … And the Romans had it figured out 1000 years before that. Yet somewhere some technological wizards have developed an experiment in […]
June 28, 2021June 19, 2021Other eras, Viking Era Another comparison of the so very enlightened and civilized English to those vicious, brutal Vikings. The vicious behavior of marauding Vikings is well known. Everyone knows they were violent brutes, totally unlike everyone else at the time. […]
June 16, 2021June 16, 2021Other eras A few indications of prices during the American Revolution along with travel times. For a few quick glimpses of prices during the American Revolutionary War, we can glance into The Indispensable’s: The Diverse Soldiers-Mariners Who […]
December 22, 2020January 7, 2021Other eras Was living on a South Dakota farm in the 1930s closer to life in the Viking Age than what life is like today? In recent years I have been exploring the Viking Era. You can see lots of posts on my blog about finances and […]
December 7, 2020December 7, 2020Other eras “An Ulvog Journey” – Tales of growing up on a South Dakota farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Casting my CPA eye on the 1946 probate document for my grandfather’s estate led to a series of previous posts describing what […]
February 19, 2020February 19, 2020Other eras Raising watermelons as cash crop. One source of cash on my grandparent’s farm was raising watermelons, going to town, then selling them for cash. That provided a […]
January 6, 2020January 6, 2020Other eras More thoughts about life on a farm in 1946 Been thinking more on what life was like on the farm after my grandfather passed away. Consider the cash expenses again – […]
January 3, 2020December 29, 2019Other eras A wild guess on the parts of King Solomon’s wealth that can be quantified – part 4 Let’s try bringing together the previous guesses (can’t even call them estimates) of the value of those portions of King Solomon’s wealth […]
December 30, 2019January 3, 2020Other eras Observations of life on a farm in 1946 Life was hard after my grandfather passed from this vale of tears. Any way you look at the income and expenses it […]
December 27, 2019December 8, 2019Other eras Guess at value of 1946 estate expressed in 2019 dollars The values assigned to my grandfather’s estate when it was probated are listed here. My determination of a adjustment factor of […]