Category Archives: Special Update
Thanksgiving 2024 – Daughters & Granddaughters
I finished White Nights. The girl waited three days with the fella, then just as she tore her heart out and decided that she could love him when her man did not return for her after a year, and the … Continue reading
White Nights
I am reading the Russian White Nights, by Fyodor Dostoevsky. I have 18 pages left to go, but so far, it is about a lonely man who meets on chance a woman who is very nearly attacked by a drunk. … Continue reading
Bridge Over Troublesome Water
Each morning, I take the kids to the bus stop, it is to a location a short drive from the house that is in another catchment, neighboring to the one we live in. It allows the kids to attend classes … Continue reading
The Labor Movement
Today is Election Day. I think this should be a national holiday, personally. I have taken the kids to the bus stop for school, and our oldest is in the delivery room with his wife right now having their first. … Continue reading
Just a Bit of an Update
The weather is changed now, all of a sudden. Wednesday was the last good day we had of summerlike temperatures, then it started to rain Wednesday night, and it was windy and crap all of Thursday. It rained plenty, then … Continue reading
CycleKart
Rotten kids have been back to school for one whole week and they have already brought me a virus home and let me have it. Rotten kids! Meanwhile, I have been looking at old Ford Model A’s on the classified … Continue reading
My Thanksgiving
It is a quiet Thanksgiving evening here at The Manor. Fires are burning in the wood stove and in the fireplace. Everyone is relaxing and doing their own thing on a computer or tablet, be it playing a game, watching … Continue reading
We’re In the Farming Now
It was October 4th that my new tractor was delivered to the farm. This was a long time in coming! I have been learning about tractors and implements for a good ten years, unable to afford one, but looking to … Continue reading
Graig L Hansen – 1957-2022
He began his entry into my life on Valentine’s Day in 1979, when he was an MP at Camp Pendleton, and met my mom that evening in a bar. They hit it off pretty good, and a week or two … Continue reading
My Body Pains
It is hard to write a blog post here and not go down some rabbit hole of some sort that leads me to places in my mind that I don’t want to share out loud. It’s one of the most … Continue reading