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: family
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
My oldest and first-born son has been into video games for a while. Now he’s pretty into music. When I wake up with a head full of mush, and the self-imposed responsibility of another morning blog post is staring me … 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
If I ever got a chance to see this angle of San Jose, CA in 1968, it would have been from the backseat of our 1967 Ford Fairlane station wagon. I probably would have been asleep…my sister Beth would have … 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
“Beautiful enough to cause the Angels to stop in mid-flight.” That’s a quote from this film about homesteading. These are my people. This is where my family came from. It’s funny to listen to this…all the cadences of the voices…the … Continue reading
Something free sounds pretty good to an 18-year-old manboy. The summer before my senior year of high school, I went up to Minnesota with a buddy to work for a high-voltage electrical contractor. The contractor was building power line towers … Continue reading
I’m growing grass as I write this. I guess that what I mean is that I threw some grass seed on the ground…and I have faith that it will grow. It grows on its own. I don’t know if I … Continue reading
There’s a house on my route that caught fire a couple of years ago. In the fire, it was gutted… but since the house could be reclaimed, they repaired it and the folks who lived there have since moved back … Continue reading