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Gayne can pass by Buc-ee’s
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Gayne can pass by Buc-ee’s
OUTDOORS ON EDGE By Gayne C. Young 
June 11, 2025
Let me get straight to the point. I’m not a fan of Bucee’s. Yes, I know this will read like sacrilege to many of you and I’m fully prepared for a barrage of hate mail. But I know what I like and don’t like, and I pride myself on my honesty. I honestly don’t like Buc-ee’s. Here are just a few of the ...
Young hosts party for new book
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Young hosts party for new book
OUTDOORS ON EDGE By Gayne C. Young 
June 4, 2025
Wafting into the Tabak Haus last Wednesday, patrons and fans of the Standard- Radio Post’s outdoors writer, Gayne C. Young, packed the place to get a copy of Young’s new books, “Tiger Tales from the Acuña Cartel,” and “Panda Jelly Served at the Acuña Cartel.” The “Outdoors on Edge” columnist’s books...
Mead experiment fails to live up to expectations
Outdoors
Mead experiment fails to live up to expectations
by Gayne C. Young, by Gayne C. Young 
May 28, 2025
Outdoors On Edge I’m not a good enough writer to convey just how bad my mead turned out. But I’m going to try. But first … a little history. Perhaps the oldest alcoholic drink in history, mead is made by fermenting honey mixed with water. Also known as honey wine or honey beer (despite not technical...
Pack rat’s journal: I have notes
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Pack rat’s journal: I have notes
by Gayne C. Young 
May 21, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Writers are notorious pack rats. Especially in the times before the cloud server. Before I got cheap online storage, I had boxes and ...
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Kerrville Genealogical Society to host WikiTree program
May 14, 2025
The Kerrville Genealogical Society invites the public to its May 2025 program, featuring genealogist and historian T. Scott Atkinson, as he presents “...
I always bet on the gorilla
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
I always bet on the gorilla
by Gayne C. Young 
May 14, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Let me start by saying I really don’t care who would win in a battle royale between a silverback gorilla and a hundred men. Sure, I’d...
Grill shopping and eyeing a Traeger
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Grill shopping and eyeing a Traeger
by Gayne C. Young 
May 7, 2025
Outdoors On Edge I’ve never made money off setting anything on fire. Joe Traeger has. A lot of it. Our story begins in Mt. Angel, Oregon back in the e...
Larry Hagman visited the ’Burg
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Larry Hagman visited the ’Burg
by Gayne C. Young 
April 30, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Before he was Major Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie” or J.R. Ewing on “Dallas,” Larry Hagman was the son of divorced parents who was ju...
Thrice named adventurer braved many horrors on his travels
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Thrice named adventurer braved many horrors on his travels
by Gayne C. Young 
April 23, 2025
Outdoors On Edge He hunted to fill his family’s natural history museum, had five different species of animals named after him and discovered the sourc...
Fermenting on mead/motors
Gillespie Life, Outdoors
Fermenting on mead/motors
by Gayne C. Young 
April 16, 2025
Outdoors On Edge Ineed another boat motor like I need a hole in my head. And yet I’m looking for one. I suppose I’m truly a glutton for punishment. Th...
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