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Six words about....
I hear a Bob Seger song. or Volney hill is shorter but steeper. Someone thought this was my picture. or Always a good year for Corvettes. ----- Now you try.
View from Ellis Island....
This obviously isn't my picture. It's from here. And here's a blog with a lot of interesting NYC pics.
More of me....
I'm not driving. I'm preparing to be towed. Not too far Just across the driveway and down toward the machine shed where the tractor will be closer to the battery charger. This is my fatheri...
Old men....
Writer David McCullough is 81. When he made these 60 Minutes segments he was 79. Both he and Morley Safer, who is now 82 and was then 80, are old men. But watch them. Watch the vitality i...
Coverup
Sometimes I feel the need to write something - to put an entry up because the current one is embarrassing for some reason. I generally have more to say on weekends. And more time to say it ...
A short story
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/02/19/what-is-remembered?utmsource=tny&utmcampaign=generalsocial&utmmedium=facebook&mbid=socialfacebook I read this in 2001, when it was first ...
Some morning words...
Last night after work I went to town. In order of occurrence: got can money at can place. Fifteen dollars and change. Place smells and is full of cans. At the end of the day. But they pai...
The man....well two of them....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJvCzL_DnHY
What makes me happy?
Coffee on ice cubes. Most of nature, including the sky. And flowers. And vistas. Being able to DO things. As in exercise or work or simple movement. Good writing. In books or magazines, a...
What's bothering me most?
My pants are too tight. I'm eating too much. I'm losing my ability to be active physically. I'm aging. I'm feeling a little pessimistic about my job. They've hired new people. I don't fee...
Time...
... moves too fast. Moves too slow. We have too much of it or not enough of it. Moods are like that too. I feel good. I feel rotten. I love my life. I hate it. We can look for reasons...
John Glenn's 93rd birthday is today.
He is the only one of the original astronauts who is still living. He's been married to Annie since 1943. Sunday will be the 45th anniversary of the first landing on the moon. I was curious...
Want to feel good?
Watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDAMRMQr48g
The Star Wars Hay Rake....
... is a new acquisition. It rakes two swathes together with its fold-out wings. It get pulled with one of the old red tractors. The neighbor's Jerseys came to the fence to check it out. ...
A day should have some beautiful flowers in it.
Yarrow - the weed, the wildflower - take your choice. At Reno Bottoms. A yellow dairy - brown eyed susan - again take your choice. Again at Reno Bottoms. I don't know what it is. At R...
Perfect day....
Note - I saved this as a draft and then came back and edited and added pictures, etc. Then I saved it again as a draft. By now it's a little stale but it's public Have been to Lacrosse. Had ...
Question of the day - two
Thank you for the response to the hair cut question. You guys are a lot of fun. On to something a little more serious. (and maybe impossible to answer) There are 40 trains of crude oil going ...
Question of the day.....
... who cuts your hair?
Hi again....
It's Saturday and I finally made my trip to town. Thursday didn't work out for going to town. Although it should have because now the Buick is full of cans and the can place was not open this m...
There were free fireworks....
... at the game last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZCOgnM6sMc&feature=youtu.be They came with southern country music. We were in the high bleachers behind THIRD base and there wa...
Hi...
This week has a whole bunch of Saturdays, including today which was unexpected. At noon yesterday they announced we had enough work done that we could have today off. Of course if we want to be...
Survey - with transitions/brick buildings
THE BEGINNING Where were you born? Many of you know, Iowa. Do you still live there? - I do. I'm writing this on my mother's kitchen table. Where would you want to live, ideally? - - A y...
Sunrise, sunset...
The day began with color in the sky. I saw a stripe of green out the kitchen window but when I got outside it was no longer there - or maybe the camera was incapable of capturing it. Here's...
Words later...
My new obsession...
........ is homemade iced lattes. Leftover coffee, ice and a generous splash of milk. I like to have the coffee at room temperature but sometimes I use hot coffee and more ice. Sometimes I put...
Book Description
Just a few words that don’t mean anything.
