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Country Roads Taking Me Home
On the road to West Virginia for another family reunion. I’ve now attended more reunions in the last two years than in the preceding 58. I made it to a Mueller cousin reunion in 2019 and one other Smith reunion in the 80s, right after we found this branch of the family. Actually, wait a minute. I made it to the one Smith reunion in the 80s and another one in 91. There was another trip to West…
What's Up, Doc?
Fun times this week. Monday night, I grilled steaks for dinner. About three hours later, I was sitting in the living room when I started itching everywhere. Legs. Chest. Arms. Scalp. And this popped up out of nowhere. Then I realized my tongue was swelling just a little bit. I headed for the kitchen and took a couple of Benadryls, then settled back on the couch to wait it out. Then I realized…
The Unanimous Declaration
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to…
Searching for Accountability in an Unaccountable World
Here’s my book haul from Bear’s. I’ll get started on them as soon as I finish the books that Editor Friend sent me home with eighteen months ago. I promise. Weather Stuff I mentioned a while back that I’d picked up a new weather station to replace the Ambient Iris I had. It was getting old, and the rain gauge sensor was acting up with no economical way to fix it, so I pulled the trigger on an…
More Voting Frustration
Oklahoma held its primary election this week, and the results were just as disappointing as I’d expected. Turnout was about 26%. That’s just gross, especially for a state where so many people complain about so much. The biggest thing for me (and the only thing I could vote on as a registered Libertarian) was State Question 832, regarding the minimum wage. It sits at $7.25 an hour, where it’s…
Old Memories, New Discoveries, and a Few Reasons to Worry
I’m getting old. I can tell because I spontaneously started reminiscing about my days at Fort McClellan, to the extent that I looked the place up on Google Maps and started mapping locations. I must have started at the map for twenty minutes trying to get my bearings. It might have something to do with trying to do this forty years later. Plus, things just looked different back then. We walked…
Texas Justice and Facebook Injustice
It’s been a wet week. Almost five inches of rain so far, and it’s still coming down. I spent Thursday and Friday helping Bear’s Bookstore with their move. She found a new location about half a mile down the road from her current store, and it’s double her current square footage. The old store is half of a house, and it’s cute, but it’s only barely big enough for her needs. The new store is 1,800…
A New Grandson, a Lost Friend, and an Exoneration
Some highs and lows this week. In Memoriam Received word on Memorial Day that one of my fellow Hardheim MPs had died on that morning, just 28 days after his cancer diagnosis. Chris Burkhardt served 4 years in the Army, primarily at Hardheim, Germany, as a Hawk MP. He also attended DLI learning German. They told him that as an MP with a German certificate from DLI, he’d likely get a cushy…
Testify To Love
I caught Monte Mader talking briefly about this song on her YT channel and I only halfway listened to her thoughts, so I didn’t realize what the big deal was. I’ll admit I was a little curious about why someone like Mader was playing such a religious song by Avalon, though. I remember back in my Christian days listening to this song and this band quite a bit. I missed hearing about Michael…
Saving The Streak
Internet is out, and they don’t know when it’ll be back, so I’m throwing up a quick post from the phone. Athena says hello.
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Hail, Yeah!
Several pictures this week, and a video, too. Weather A big line of thunderstorms passed through the region Friday night. Diana, Youngest Daughter, and I were on our way to our regular Friday night dinner outing when the hail started. This was the biggest stuff I’ve ever experienced: dime- and quarter-sized, for close to twenty minutes. The road looked snow-covered in places. We checked things…
Empty Nest
The house is a little quieter today. A little emptier. It’s just the two of us now. Youngest Son bought a house a few weeks ago, and we knew that meant that Middle Son would be moving out of our place and into the house YS had been living in for the last few years. That happened Saturday. Middle Son’s snack shelf in the pantry MS has moved out before. He shared an apartment with at least…
Four Years On
According to my records, I made my first post in my weekly streak four years ago this month, back on 30 April 2022. It wasn’t anything special. Heck, most of my posts aren’t really all that special. I don’t know that I planned to start the streak that week, at least not in any specific way. I didn’t even talk about it being a streak until two weeks later. I think I was sort of worried about…
Storms, New Homes, and Newly Found Cousins
The big news in town this week was the EF-1 tornado that hit Tuesday night. It popped up just before 11:00 PM on the south side of town, ran about 14 miles in a northwest line, and broke up about 15 minutes later. The track was actually just a little south of what’s pictured. Lots of damage, but no injuries that I’ve heard of. Diana’s school district cancelled classes for two days due to power…
Tell Me About Your Unusual Hobbies
This post is part of the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge, hosted by Long and Short Reviews. Check out other bloggers at this week’s post. This week’s prompt: “My Unusual Hobbies/Interests.” I don’t know if it’s all that unusual, but one of my primary hobbies is genealogy research. I think it mostly stems from my interest in stories and my drive to learn lots of things about lots of…
Arbitrary Justice: Who Lives and Who Dies Under the Death Penalty
I read a story about how the attorney general in my former home state disagreed with the governor’s ongoing reprieves for condemned inmates, calling it “a mockery of the justice system and of the dead.” I noted in the comments on the Facebook post that since 1975, Ohio has tried to kill 12 innocent men. There’s also been a recent surge in social media posts about how states are adding the death…
The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again
Sic Itur Ad Astra “Thus one journeys to the stars.” We watched the Artemis II launch Wednesday afternoon. I’m old enough that I caught the tail end of the Apollo program. I have vague memories of watching the Apollo-Soyuz mission. I remember watching a bunch of the Space Shuttle missions, from Enterprise flight tests to Columbia’s first flight, Discovery’s return to spaceflight, and more than…