fishbowl

In the big picture, this is what the 7 acres we purchased yesterday probably is…. It’s just another little fishbowl….with 6 little fishies getting ready to start cleaning it all up. But in our minds, it’s probably more like this: … Continue reading

closing time

I don’t know that anyone ever really owns anything. That’s probably a weird thing to think when we’re getting ready to go sign papers in a lawyer’s office that say that we legally “own” this piece of property. It will … Continue reading

windless kite

I woke up early again this morning. I don’t mean like 15 minutes early….I mean hours early. I don’t really know why that is….I guess that maybe I have a worm in mind that I need to get somehow….or something. … Continue reading

a parent’s broken record

I think that I could probably write every blog post about sleep. When I wake up in the morning….after the occasional adventure that the night before repeated….all I can think about is sleep. That’s a weird conundrum. I wake up … Continue reading

finish

This is a video of a cabin and a bunch of outbuildings being constructed up in Alaska. That’s the boring way to describe the operation. Here’s the way the person who posted the video described it on YouTube: Building a … Continue reading

we still got the point….no matter how low-def

Do you remember watching movies in school? The AV club (the guys….or, more rarely, girls….who knew how to run the complicated movie projector) would come in and set things up for us….and then with a flick of the light switch, … Continue reading

mo’ money? mo’money?!

OK….check this out. When you borrow a big chunk of money from the bank, they charge you money to borrow the money. That makes sense. What’s in it for them, otherwise? There’s got to be an angle, right? But….here’s the … Continue reading

In My Head

If I’m running, and I haven’t for a while, not since I got busy and it was cold…and there was that morning that it was raining, and I wondered if I was too old….and then some joint somewhere on my … Continue reading

feeding the dragon

If you tear off into the night, with your unmufflered truck roaring in the blackness, Confederate flag stretched out tight behind you in the wind you’re making with your new velocity, and you have Lynyrd Skynyrd blasting out of your cheap … Continue reading