Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/18/26 6:00 43F (6.1C) Overcast with a flutter of breeze. It’s a soft, gray morning.  Doves coo and birds chirp. The rooster is awake. Walter, having concluded a minor disagreement with the dog across the way, continues making his rounds. All is...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/17/26 6:30 41F (5C) Clear, windless, beautiful. It rained last night. It rained hard most of the day yesterday and off and on all last week. The sun is rising in a clear, blue sky. It is calm. The birds are singing as if the storm had never happened....
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/16/26 6:00 42F (5.5C) Overcast,  gray, raining lightly. I believe it rained all night. It has been a damp week. I don’t know how long it will last, but it has got to be good for the immediate future. The woods need the moisture. We have already...
Book Club

Book Club

Book club was at mom’s  house  tonight,  so Andy brought mom up here for dinner while our wives were otherwise occupied. I spent the day scouring the house and cooking. We had pork loin and cornbread.  Andy brought a salad, wine and beer.  After dinner we had...
Good Morning

Good Morning

    5/15/26 45F (7.2C) Broken cloud cover drifts above wet ground. It rained some more last night. An inconstant breeze flutters the oaks’ leaves, making them shimmer. A crow caws over the cooing of doves, like the rasping smoker’s voice of a bar...