Weather rarely cooperates with plans made more than 24 hours in advance, so the older boy and I were happy to see our mini heat wave break, with cooler temps Sunday morning. Sunday was “training day” on the motorcycles. We loaded up, geared up and hit the road sometime after eight thirty in the morning. [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2009’
making it mine II
It’s sometimes about dreams here at ffw headquarters, so the anticipation that comes with planning is part and parcel around the ol’ homestead. That’s why I wasted spent part of Sunday afternoon with the motorcycle. I justified it a bit with some small maintenance items…an adjustment to the rear brake, a bit of fiddling with [...]
dad knew global warming was coming
It’s easy to dismiss global warming as Al Gore’s pet disaster or simply a cycle of the earth. I say we’ll know the truth when it’s all over. Regardless of the outcome, I’m beginning to think dad’s related to pikas. Maybe he was acting on an inexpressible instinct, but what else could explain dad’s continual [...]
all the aches and pains without the hassle of hiring a moving truck
Just before a “delivery” of barbecued goodness Sunday. That’s when we finished what begun Friday afternoon with the moving around that gave us a seemingly new house. “Moved to a new house?” you ask. No, the creation of what feels like a new house through a refreshment of the feng shui (or lack thereof) in [...]
