The Trail Since 2006
It began with a spark of inspiration from a few kindred spirits scattered along the Appalachian ridges, mostly in North Carolina and Virginia. Back then, we were virtual friends who—for the most part—never shared a physical porch, but we built a digital one together. Some were writers, some were poets, and some were photographers, each of us finding our way through those early “virtual woods” on the internets.
What follows is a collection of my latest musings (and perhaps a bit of blathering), a trail of thoughts that winds all the way back to those first steps in 2006.
Or just meander through my past muses… Just hope the coffee isn’t stale!
TGIF – There is talk on the airways of a cold front coming…
There has been talk the past few days by the weather prognosticators of a cold front heading for these parts. Now granted, at this time of year a weather change that lowers the high temperatures…
Thursday Shorts….
Jim Hightower | CORPORATE AMERICA’S “CHEAP” IMPORT ADDICTION Let’s be honest. China’s trillion-dollar-a-year export economy is based squarely on the country’s deliberate lack of humane standards. That’s precisely why our CEO’s rushed over there –…
Midweek musings on a Wednesday evening…
As I sat reading my email and the news online this morning I had visions of reading the news not all that many years ago. Newsprint and ink stains…Reading the daily news was much more…
Back to work…
The Labor Day weekend played out long as usual. The bar-b-que was well received by one and all. I think we ended up with a bakers dozen here at one point or another during the…
Eugene Robinson – Good Morning, Vietnam! – washingtonpost.com
I spend most of my time these days trying to ignore the insane direction that George W Bush and his enablers have taken this country for the past six years. Then the White House comes…
Labor Day on a cloudy, rainy Monday.
Status Report: The remodeling of our lone bathroom was finally completed yesterday after noon. We have spent the last day finding the little nicks and dings that will be driving the wife crazy as we…
Labor Day Weekend Sunday – Day 6 of a 3 day project…
I always know a remodeling project will take longer than anticipated when I am doing all of the work myself and without help. I did not expect to watch the projected timespan double on a…
Saturday – First of September…High summer is over.
We slept in our own beds for the first time since Monday last night. The construction crew worked till almost 10pm making sure the most important part of the newly rebuilt bathroom was complete. Hopefully,…
The romodeling saga continues with another night planned for the local Best Western…
No matter how much wishing and wanting you might do, remodeling projects take longer than the best laid plans. Looks like another night at the Best Western for the three of us. Tom Philpott has…
Wednesday – Blogging Lite
The night was spent at the Best Western around the corner and in all probability tonight will be also. At home this morning to pick up a couple of things and before running off to…
The start of a home remodel…
We are starting an update of our bathroom today. I went in to this project with some misgivings. Today’s start has not made these misgivings go away. Realize please, our house predates electricity and most…
A rockhounds lament…Texas coastal tears.
As a youngster growing up on the Gulf coast I naturally became a bit of a rockhound. Makes sense doesn’t it? What with no natural rock formations being available within a hundred miles of where…
Gonzales quits as attorney general | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
I have just one comment…It’s about time. One more down, too many to go. Gonzales quits as attorney general Associated Press CRAWFORD — Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under fire from congressional Democrats, has resigned,…
Leon Hale’s take on the heat of summer…
Leon Hale is a Houston institution. His column has been running in Houston Newspapers for as long as I’ve been around (or at least as long as I’ve been aware of being around). Today he…
Saturday – One week back and I need the rest…
Thanks to Rebecca Blood for the link… I agree with her assessment. It is great advice on living well. Reflections On Italy TODAY WHILE TROLLING the hard drive on my Macbook Pro I came across…
Photo Friday – “Unfinished”
Unfinished Grandson… This week’s challenge: ‘Unfinished’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be to a static page that will always show your challenge image, and not your…
The Bush Administration Drops The F-Bomb on Appalachia
Morning muses over email with coffee and toast.
You know as I was putting together my lunch to take into work today I was thinking just how oppressively hot it was outside yesterday afternoon. I remember marveling at one point because the temperature…
Hump Day – Thank God it’s over.
These first days back at work are taking a lot out of me. My posting is slip sliding away, and I don’t like missing a post after getting the habit pretty much ingrained. Today in…
Second Day Back…Boy Am I Tired.
The sight that greets me in the morning as I leave for work… And the sight that greats me when I return… I must admit…I prefer the second shot to the first ’cause it means…
Daylight’s end on Back-to-Work Monday….
As the sun sinks slowly behind the trees to the west the heat of the day begins to approach the lowly mid-eighties. Mid summer on the Texas Gulf Coast is always a charmer unless you…
Back to work…
The day has finally arrived where I am returning to the office on a daily basis. Since the daily routine has gotten a bit slack in the last couple of weeks I am running short…
Wandering the web on a Sunday afternoon…
For many years back in the late 1980’s and into the early 1990′ I spent way more time than I should have exploring fractal images. On Friday GreenmanTim over at Walking the Berkshires posted an…
It’s eyes on the horizon time in SE Texas…
It looks like it’s time to keep an eye on the tropics if you live in this part of the world. Hurricane Dean has reached category 4 and he’s still strengthening. He is prognosticated anywhere…
Photo Friday – Old
Old Friends And old photo’s of Old Friends… We still get together once and a while, me and my old friend from the 6th grade…It is over 40 years ago that I developed my first…
Weather goest thou, Erin? What path doth Dean follow?
The predawn hours have been accompanied with the distant rumble of nature’s own percussion section. Tropical storm Erin moved ashore just northeast of Corpus Christie this morning and the outlying rain bands began to come…
Wednesday – The end of week +2
Today’s emails contained this week’s copy of the “Weeknight Kitchen Newsletter” from The Splendid Table. I’ve been listening to Lynne Rossetto Kasper on the Splendid Table Podcast for a while now and enjoying it immensely….
Musing Through The Dog Days of Summer
From Washington Forgive me a few moments of happiness at the news from Washington. The one bit of uniting not dividing to come out of the White House in six years…Karl Rove is resigning. One…
Sometimes…Just Sometimes, The Boob Tube Is Right!
Who Are You? – New York Times
Who Are You? – New York Times I KNOW you. I know you well. It’s true I always have a little trouble with your name, but I do know your name. I just don’t know…
Food or Not Food?
I am in the process of working my way through Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle…A Year of Food Life, so be prepared to see more on the state of American food. Every day that goes…
America’s Roadside Bloomery
It’s been a while since Fred First came up with this idea…contest? So I thought I’d throw out another mention just to see if I could push it about a bit… It would be neat…
Photo Friday – Oddity
While most of the country encounters a Christmas Snow with a fair amount of regularity, this is the only known Christmas Day Snow in Brazoria County, Texas. I would think that would rate it as…
How should you spend your food dollar?
For the record…This is day 1 of week 2 Post-Radiation. In a bit of serendipitous follow-up to yesterday’s post. My email brings me this from Grist…How to prioritize your organic food dollars to get the…
Wednesday Musing – Rads + 7…
In my internet wanderings and muses I find myself being drawn to many of the same subjects that interested me 3o plus years ago. It appears the wanna be back to the lander, mother earth…
Tuesday Musing – Day +6
The whole time I was doing the seven weeks of radiation the technicians and the nurses warned me that the two to three weeks after the treatment ended would be bad to worse…They spoke truth….
Fragments From Floyd: June 2002 Archives
Fragments From Floyd: June 2002 Archives June 5, 2002 Summer LightningThe animals have been tended, my wife and son have left for work, and I am alone watching the first rays of a humid, empty…
Sunday Morning, 5th of August, Twenty O’Seven
This morning Garrison informs us of a birthday… It’s the birthday of Wendell Berry born in Port Royal, Kentucky (1934). He grew up on farmland that had belonged to his family since 1803. He went…
Musing my way through a mid summer Friday.
The bridge collapse in Minneapolis hadn’t really impinged upon my conscious as I don’t spend a lot of time on the TV. I have only seen passing references to the disaster on the net until…
Photo Friday – Wet
This is what my front yard has looked like on way too many days this summer. This week’s challenge: ‘Wet’. Please read our Participant Guide before deciding to submit a link. Your link must be…
Web wandering on a Thursday morning…
This story caught my interest the other day. A Factory Farm Near You – New York Times Once upon a time, only a decade or so, it wasn’t hard to know where factory hog farms…
The End…Today will mark the end of my worship at the nuclear medicine shrine…
After this afternoons session, my sacrifices on the alter of the atomic spheres comes to an end…The number for the day is 35…of 35. An ending and a beginning, even though I am yet to…
End of July, Twenty O’Seven
Today’s number is 34…Only one more day to go. As I was rambling through the news today, reading the stories out of Washington, and the comments from readers, I was struck with a wild and…
Monday in paradise…time for a weather change?
The days number is 33…after today just two to go. This weekend brought the end of an era to our house. I finally broke down and bought our first replacement television with digital tuning. Had…
Weekend Musing…All Day Long
“The days still come in order. Gray light collects in the bedroom long before dawn. Then comes a bleached noon and nearly always the threat of a late-afternoon thunderstorm. The darkness is notated by fireflies,…
TGIF – The glow visible out of the corner of your eye is just me…
Todays number is 32…The effects of swallowing the sun are beginning to manifest themselves. The gravel in my voice has become a whisper this week (along with the voice itself), and my energy level has…
It’s Thursday in Monsoon Land USA…
Todays number is 31…Look Ma, no voice…He said with a raspy whisper. If this doesn’t look like the eye of an angry God, I’ll eat my fire and brimstone upbringing. I have visions of a…
‘Tis The Start of Week Seven – Last of an Irradiated Time Zone
Technically, it’s the last day of week six since the 4th fell in there and these treatments run their course in 35 days and not 7 weeks. But, since we started on a Wednesday, and…
Tuesday, Twenty fourth day of July, Twenty O’Seven
The number for today is 29… I spent a chunk of yesterday afternoon riding the John Deere. I discovered we are totally saturated since I was driving through standing water in places I have never…
And we start another week of chasing irradiated dreams…
Today’s number is 28… Last evening we had a real gully washer of a thunderstorm roll through after 8pm. As Sherry and I sat at the kitchen table reading we started hearing distant rumbles. The…
