Category: Life

Col­lec­tion of thoughts and issues, as I work them out. These rarely have any chrono­log­i­cal val­ue, but just get fit in with the rest of things.

Waldron-rific Weekend

Our good friends Chris and Sal­ly stayed with us this past week­end on their dri­ve back home. We had­n’t seen them in about a year, since they were first announc­ing to the world that they were preg­nant. Well, as you can imag­ine, this trip was even bet­ter. This time, instead of blur­ry B&W sono­grams, we… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wal­dron-rif­ic Weekend

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Traveling Band

Dave rocks out on his twangy Tele­cast­er while play­ing for Stephen Sim­mons, who was in Ash­land, VA last Fri­day night. That’s Paul on drums and Willie on bass. My younger broth­er Dave was in town Fri­day to play a show up at the Ash­land Cof­fee & Tea house with Stephen Sim­mons. We had a good time… Con­tin­ue read­ing Trav­el­ing Band

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Tree Exchange

One of my favorite bloom­ing-any­thing is an orna­men­tal cher­ry tree. I can real­ly say why, since it’s not like there were any in the yard where I grew up. There’s just some­thing about them that I find beau­ti­ful and relax­ing. I find it hard to see one with hav­ing also the urge to pho­to­graph it.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Tree Exchange

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

So, I have a decent sized pile of scrap lum­ber from the stair­case project as well as from the fence repairs last sum­mer and tree limbs we’ve cut. I real­ly felt it was impor­tant to find a place that would take this for being recy­cled. This stuff would make excel­lent mulch or par­ti­cle board. How­ev­er,… Con­tin­ue read­ing It’s Not Easy Being Green

Basement Stairs

The base­ment stairs project was this past week­end and it end­ed up being a com­plete suc­cess. Angela and I are both real­ly hap­py in how they turned out. I don’t real­ly want to write a play by play, but I thought I would at least write some about what we did and what all I… Con­tin­ue read­ing Base­ment Stairs

Running a Successful Failure

I final­ly fin­ished read­ing the last 20 pages or so of Dal­las Smith’s Falling For­ward: Tales from an Endurance Saga on Fri­day night. This should have been per­fect tim­ing, as Angela and I were to run the Mon­u­ment Avenue 10k the very fol­low­ing morn­ing. Dal­las’1 book is loaded not just with sto­ries of his 100mi./100mi./50mi.… Con­tin­ue read­ing Run­ning a Suc­cess­ful Failure