Why Organic, Sustainable Farming Matters | Portrait of a Farmer

Here’s a short film from “The Health Journal”. Great stuff….very appealing….the way farming should be done if we didn’t need to buy our chicken breasts for .99 a pound. Here’s the YouTube description: When it comes to your food, nature … Continue reading

people like a party….

“Tomorrowland” fascinates me. This is some crazy….insane….stuff. What a party! Look at all these people out there….dancing…watching the spectacle. A three day ticket for this thing costs 282.00 US…plus airfare and lodging. I think that it would give me a … Continue reading

higher….higher….higher.

Something is always happening….and, sometimes, more needs to happen. More….that’s how people roll. We need “more”. We live in an old house….and we have an older house a couple of miles down the road that needs some immediate action before we can … Continue reading

high in a yurt….an airbnb adventure

The San Juan’s. What’s that? Who? Where? I’m just kidding….that’s where Jenny’s folks live. It’s pretty nice out there. Here’s a yurt you can rent through airbnb  ( https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/8286641 ). Man….you can rent just about anything. We need to rent an … Continue reading

“New Backyard in Norway”…..

This is a another great video from Salomon TV…..again, featuring Killian Jornet. Here’s the description from the YouTube video…. Kilian Jornet is considered the greatest mountain runner ever. But he doesn’t consider himself a runner. Join Kilian in his new … Continue reading

the moment….

We now have a very shaky, handheld video of the sun hiding behind the moon. I took it yesterday….when totality came. It, for all its weird shakiness and….weird shakiness….is kind of cool to have. It’s nice to have some kind … Continue reading

totality

If we were in Norway in 2015, this is what we would have seen. Our eclipse (Our! Like proximity equals ownership!) is today….the 21st. We don’t have snow on the ground in North Carolina in August. That’s not how we … Continue reading

In the Path of the Throngs…..

Jenny thinks that I’m kind of a reactionary…..a “Nervous Nelly”. We’re going to try to go in the “back way” tomorrow…..drive down a long, dirt road into the totality zone, find a place to park at the state forest with very limited spaces, … Continue reading