homestead.

I started reading this book last night. It’s a good one. End of review. NewYorkTimes….sign me up. I’m kidding…that would be a really crummy review. This book deserves better than a crummy review. I have a library full of this … Continue reading

I like trains….I like bikes.

Not everyone I know is very supportive of the Rails to Trails idea. I know people who say that we can’t tear up the tracks…that when Armageddon comes, we’ll want to get the trains back up and running to carry … Continue reading

mcdonalds happymeal transformer…the monkey has tools

Our four-year knows how to work a computer. Of course, he doesn’t know how to spell or type yet…so when he needs to look up something, he yells for me to type it in. I guess I’m the monkey’s stick. … Continue reading

butts on the beach

We went to the beach this weekend. My youngest son turned 4 and he’s really excited about staying at motels…and he’s really excited about the beach…so we decided to kill two birds and stay at a motel on this trip. … Continue reading

security light

We have a new neighbor. He’s developing a piece of land across the street from us. One of the first things he did was put up a big fence around the perimeter of his property. One of the things that … Continue reading

another big day

In this life, people have big days all the time. Someone is coming, someone is going…somewhere one of us is getting ready to have some kind of big day. It’s the only real consistency in our lives…something is probably going … Continue reading

Alamar

I watched this the other day  on one of the “weird channels” that we get on Dish Network . We have a really limited channel selection because I found a super cheap package that I think they sometimes offer hoping … Continue reading

parents are sneakers

I realized this morning that, off and on depending on the ages of our children, I’ve spent a good portion of my adult life saying, “Shhhhh….you might wake her/him”. That’s a pretty long time to be worried about how waking … Continue reading

A really (really) nice….Hyundai

I went to the tire store yesterday and bought some new tires for the mail jeep. I buy 50,000 mile tires and get about 10,000 miles out of them. Driving the mail is hard on everything involved. While I was … Continue reading