Watched a documentary about Jaco Pastorius last night. Man. What a musician. What a tragic story. Check out Netflix…it’s streaming now. … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2016
This is the breed we’ve chosen to be our family dog. We don’t have any sheep….we don’t have any chickens….we don’t have any goats. He’ll have to guard children for a while. The Great Pyrenees is an amazing breed….and this … Continue reading
This is so beautiful to see this. My daughter is going to be an engineer….and to see another young woman actively pursuing something like this is a lot of fun. We don’t push our limits….and we limit the range of … Continue reading
We rented our first porta potty today. We didn’t do it just so that I could cross an item off my bucket list. We did it because the leach field has failed and the tank is filling up and we … Continue reading
All these words, like so many seemingly directionless birds, filling the air, flying home. I worked as a DJ for a while, mostly, I think, because the station I worked at needed someone to fill a slot in time, and … Continue reading
Remember these dudes….out in the fields…planting. That’s where our potatoes come from. Not just mysteriously appearing at the store for us to buy. There’s a big back story to the things we eat. Unless you’re growing it all in your … Continue reading
The soundtrack work that Kenny Loggins did in the 1980’s wouldn’t have led me to his music. I was a fan from his days in Loggins and Messina, but the work he did for soundtracks way back when wasn’t something … Continue reading
I cleaned up the mail Jeep yesterday, mostly just to make me feel better about using it all the time. Funny how a veneer of cleanliness colors my viewpoint about the situation. Of course, I could leave it dirty and … Continue reading
Another interesting Kirsten Dirksen video. This time it’s a profile of John Wells out on his homestead in West Texas. If you haven’t checked out John Wells before, take a look at his website here…. http://thefieldlab.blogspot.com/ Watching this, I wonder if … Continue reading
Man. The puppy is out in the laundry room, crying. Nate’s on the couch, hot as a griddle and throwing up. Crazy morning. We went and got the puppy last night, gave him a bath in a tin tub out … Continue reading