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Another Tree Talk: Part II 27 Aug 2013 | 02:25 pm
You’re thinking I gave up aren’t you. You should know better than that! I said a wise man would give up. I didn’t say I gave up! I drove to a friend’s house. It was nearby and therefore a great e...
Another Tree Talk: Part I 26 Aug 2013 | 03:23 pm
Last year I met a maple that tried to kill me. It insulted me and managed to get entangled in everything in sight. I thought very carefully about every move and eventually prevailed. The tree becam...
A Tale Of Two County Fairs: Part II 20 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
Recently I went to two rural country fairs. You can learn a lot about America at a county fair. Here, in no particular order, are random observations: I expected to see herds of mutant whack jobs in ...
A Tale Of Two County Fairs: Part I: Compare And Contrast 18 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
Recently I went to two rural country fairs in two adjacent counties. Both fairs were similar in size but they were in very different venues. One was in a town that’s poor, very rural, and the county i...
Bacon: My Happy Moment 17 Aug 2013 | 02:12 pm
I love being a rural hick! I’ve lived everywhere but I once wound up locked down in a city too long. It did me harm. Thankfully I bailed out from “the city composed entirely of debt” well before the i...
Adapt Or Perish: Washington Post 16 Aug 2013 | 06:22 am
Back in the stone age I had a newspaper route. This was back when it was considered a good thing for youths to work. One effect of my righteous, underpaid, non-minimum wage, child labor paper route ...
Tainted Trailer: II: Pics Or It Didn’t Happen 11 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
I have obtained photographic evidence that Pony conventions exist. (In case you thought they were a figment of my fevered imagination.) I blurred the photos because… well mostly because I found the ...
Tainted Trailer 7 Aug 2013 | 04:26 am
You’ve got to be shitting me! “I’d like to borrow your trailer.” A friend was asking to borrow my utility trailer. She uses it all the time. I don’t mind. In fact, “asking” was something of a misnome...
English Major Ramble 2 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
The written word is as uplifting as it is awesome. It’s a major part of my life. I love my Kindle. The heaps of books growing organically throughout the house fill me with contentment. I read cons...
55 MPH 30 Jul 2013 | 03:19 pm
I’ve written about the 55 MPH speed limit before. It, like the AMC Gremlin and possible annihilation by Soviet missiles, was an experience. It made an indelible mark on my psyche. So much stupidity...
