We got everyone ready and out of the house by quarter to 9 to make our 9:30 appointment in downtown Hendersonville to get our passport applications processed. Apparently, at five minutes past 9, they called the house to tell us … Continue reading
Category Archives: environment
I saw a lady come out of one of the trailers on my mail route the other day. I saw her out of the corner of my eye when I stopped to put a piece of junk mail in her … Continue reading
I used to get this catalog “back in the day” that came from a company called Johnson Smith. It was a company that specialized at the time in the weird and the novel items that were all pretty darn appealing … Continue reading
Here’s a short video of an “eco-village” that was defined as being “somewhere around Asheville”. What is going on? All these little shacks right next to each other….what’s up with that? I remember seeing videos of field worker’s shacks on … Continue reading
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau So what happens if you slow down on your “castle building” … Continue reading
Oh my goodness. Don’t talk about the good things going on where it’s easy for good things to happen. Talk about the good things that are going on where it seems impossible for something good to happen. I think that … Continue reading
My Jeep started running funny the other day. It was idling kind of different…surging….running a little bit hotter than usual. It wasn’t anything really profound. It was still running…had good power…started right up when I got ready to go again. … Continue reading
I was listening to one of my audio books yesterday and I realized that I am what is called a “hungry ghost“. In the Wikipedia link, it’s a pretty repulsive thing to be a hungry ghost….so maybe I should clarify … Continue reading
I have a little sister…we’re both adults now (or at least old enough to be considered adults)…so I have always been the “big brother”. It’s something I’ve always been. It’s something I’ll always be. You can’t change birth order. But … Continue reading
Turn the volume down on this video (the music is kind of obnoxious for such a peaceful place) and you can see where we were a little over a year ago. Last summer, we took an epic road trip up … Continue reading