missing

When someone goes missing in the woods, they send out a search party.  They don’t let another evening pass when they discover that a person isn’t where they need to be. But what if a person’s “never left the building” … Continue reading

there’s something happening here

01 For What It’s Worth I couldn’t find the Buffalo Springfield song…but here’s a version by Keb Mo’.                                     I couldn’t think of … Continue reading

pecking order

We have 8 chickens. Five of those chickens are hens, and the rest are roosters. Three roosters are too many by about a margin of 2. We should get rid of two of our roosters. There…that’s pretty straightforward.  We need … Continue reading

the bad percentage

I’ve been alive, let’s see…. 53 years X 365 days = 19,345 Then add the days so far in this year (past my birthday in April…)  19,345 + 127 = 19,472 Then, if I was going to be completely accurate … Continue reading

sharpening the ax

I have a knife that has ridden in my pocket for a number of years. It’s been sharpened so often that the blade is getting kind of thin.  The main blade is pretty sharp….but a lot of the metal is … Continue reading

dancing in the street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XN_B1I6IpM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smXcLrn-iWM Here’s the last two parts of the video those two guys made about the Whittier Hotel in Detroit. Some of the language is kind of rough…they drop the “f-bomb” fairly frequently….so be prepared for that. I’m fascinated with … Continue reading

it’s a dollhouse…a starter house…a fixer upper

There are a large number of YouTube videos of abandoned houses that I ran across while looking for “log cabin” videos. You can find just about anything on YouTube. Weird. This tour reminded me of the first walk through I … Continue reading

Alamar

I watched this the other day  on one of the “weird channels” that we get on Dish Network . We have a really limited channel selection because I found a super cheap package that I think they sometimes offer hoping … Continue reading

parents are sneakers

I realized this morning that, off and on depending on the ages of our children, I’ve spent a good portion of my adult life saying, “Shhhhh….you might wake her/him”. That’s a pretty long time to be worried about how waking … Continue reading