The birds outside are singing again. I get up early enough at my house that I have some quiet time…..and the only noise is the birds singing…..maybe some bugs….bugging…..a dog barking down the road somewhere. It doesn’t really sound like … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: July 2015
When I was little, we went to Disneyland. I’d like to think that it was a lot less expensive to go to Disneyland back then…..and it probably was “less expensive”. (My friend, Clay, was saying yesterday that he bought a … Continue reading
My friend and neighbor put an ad on Facebook this morning that she had bantam chicks for sale. That was kind of exciting….we need some chickens again. But….we’re not ready for them yet….so I’ll have to skip them. I can … Continue reading
The jungle’s moved back in, seemingly overnight, and the place that was bare is covered in vegetation again. That’s what happens where I live. That’s the way we roll in Western North Carolina. We’d all be covered up with green … Continue reading
“The worst” is kind of hard to pin down sometimes. Our cat, Lilly, must stay up most of the night. She must stay up most of the night and hunt….because, in the morning, I’m often blessed with the spoils … Continue reading
Some mornings, I just don’t feel like putting the first letter down on the page. I used to write with a pencil….scratchy graphite on coarse paper, slow and …..now that I think about it…kind of sensual. Not “sensual” like “this … Continue reading
I drove all night and into the morning to get to Niagara Falls. Of course, that was the American side….the side on our part of the border with Canada. We wanted to go to the Canadian side. The printer had … Continue reading
I haven’t been doing much running for a while….but this is what it’s really all about for me. I don’t race….but I like to get out in the woods and just move through it. I need to get going again. … Continue reading
When I was just a really young guy….when we still lived in California….I had a couple of these toys. They were pretty popular…in the days before “clackers”. One of the neat things about this particular toy is that the man … Continue reading
I can’t dial it back. When confronted with a perceived lack of real value, my inner cheapskate comes roaring up to the front of my brain and I start to complain. It spoils things. It spoils a lot of things. We … Continue reading