killed a cat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIBZlURgS5M I spent the morning weedeating….and Kenny Rankin is (still) pretty great. I hadn’t thought of this song for a while, but it popped into my head when I had my earmuffs on for some reason, and I figured that … Continue reading

Cecil

My father didn’t draw Cecil incessantly when I was a child. That would be too strange. But, every once in a while, he’d draw Cecil for me when I was really little. It’s funny the things that we remember. Even … Continue reading

Viggo….not under a waterfall….or….maybe under a waterfall….but under different circumstances than the last waterfall…maybe…

Here’s a movie that we want to see. Jenny and I watched an earlier movie that Viggo Mortensen was in called “A Walk on the Moon”. I think that Jenny enjoyed that one. I guess that Viggo is in a … Continue reading

the pipe from the potty shouldn’t have a hole….in the side of the flange, at least

This is what I did this morning….except my repair wasn’t as easy. It looks like he just stuck it down into the hole. Easy. Lucky. I cut out subfloor in the bathroom….I chiseled out old flange…..I cleaned the inside of … Continue reading

way past home

I ran out and then back and kept going this morning. There’s something psychologically damaging about running past where you usually stop. There’s something about running in the early morning daylight that helps you understand just how slowly your 56-year-old … Continue reading

most folks wave

We live out in the country and I wave at the oncoming cars. That’s a pretty weird thing if you’re from out-of-town, but I think that most people, even if they aren’t used to it, kind of get a kick … Continue reading

I’m going to dump it somewhere out of sight….

Jenny and Sparrow and I went to the landfill this afternoon. We had an old fence that was covered in English Ivy that we tore out when they put in the septic system….and we didn’t want it hanging around here … Continue reading

who knows where the time goes?

I fell asleep with Nate last night at eight, then woke up in his bed at one, moved to my bed and talked with Jenny when she woke up until two, then got up at five fifteen to start my … Continue reading