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My vacation - 2014 - all of it -
(new stuff at the bottom) Day 1 was Wednesday I was at home. An ordinary day. Mid-morning I went to town to the library to print out my train ticket. I printed four copies - just to be sure. ...
Island in the stream...
(Written 10-16-14) On the train. In the dark. Well the dark is outside. Inside it’s bright. Bright and a bit bumpy. We left at 7:11-ish and now it’s 7: 36-ish. I am typing on little blue Acer...
Haiku for a train trip
Haiku for a train trip Through the night, bright in the dark Empire Builder choos. Blue and silver thoughts Gather Minnesota stars brought to the city Arch across the night Bridge lights circle ...
Sound is a little rocky...
.... but you know where you are.
Seatmates?
I’m taking the train to see the family up north.
It's always pretty...
.... on the way to LaCrosse. We took the ice cream truck to get windows for Joana’s house. I saw a billboard for a local radio station - Classic Rock =- because your kids’ music sucks.
In front of Fayze's....
I absolutely love Corvettes..
More than you want to know / with pictures
Sunday morning. 9:52 am. I have been up quite a while. I took a nice bath and shampoo and then put my worn clothes back on again. I’m dressed kind of nicely though. From bottom to top: a...
Weekend's coming...
written by Webb, Jimmy. I am a lineman for the county And I drive the main road Searchin’ in the sun for another overload I hear you singin’ in the wire I can hear you through the whine And the W...
Low light kitties and the view from the deck...
These are the kittens of the black kitten who came from the power plant. She may or may not have been Stripe Butt’s sister. She is either called Bear (by Katie) or the black cat and was for...
What makes me happy in five minutes...
2:20 PM A list: Sunshine Yellow leaves Being able to vote New apples Good books Any books Books on tape Elmore Leonard books on tape Friendship Being able to do things A good family Antique dish...
Abortive 750
I’m not going to get my words done this morning. Well maybe if I step on it. That’s a phrase I haven’t heard in a long time. Step on it. Put your foot on it. Step on the gas. Floor it. Put ...
750 words, give or take.
Finally! Three thirty am so I can get up. Sunday nights are not known for sleep. Weekends screw me up. I need a plan. A better one. Maybe exercise? Who the fuck knows. I was up all day Su...
Saturday morning on the deck*
This is the second week in a row that I’ve had Friday off. I guess I’m transferred back into my original department where there is less work? Doesn’t matter a lot. Less work means less money b...
Wish me luck.
I’m back to where I started eight or so months ago. Except now I’m older and wiser. Here’s hoping. I just wrote my 750 words. I had flow this morning. It was the kind of thing I might write i...
St. Mark and Father Stedman....
I’ve taken to reading the bible. Gospel of Mark. I’m using a nice sturdy little paper back I might have gotten from from my brother. It’s the the New International Version which the Evangelic...
Quotes and videos - expanded a bit
First quote is from Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel published in 1937. My paperback copy is heavily marked up. Would be fun to know who read it so carefully before me....
An old school man of the world...
Family at Twins game last night
Deb caught a ball in her taco salad bowl.
Funny how you can take the same pictures....
..... over and over again. And it’s almost September 4th! How’d we do that? How are you doing on your decluttering? We were supposed to get rid of one thing on the first, two on the second, t...
Stripey Butt
For September I decided to see if I could post something every day. I was thinking it would be nice to put up a fresh picture every day. So.... I went out and took a bunch of pics of Stripey...
Jesus wept....
This is a photo of two IC&E SD40-2s laying over in Bethlehem’s River Yard. The Sands casino now illuminates the dormant stacks of Bethlehem Steel. (from [here)](http://www.railpictures.net/v...
Too rainy to report from the deck....
The last few weeks we’ve been having a lot of rain. After a wet spring, a dry summer, looks like a wet fall. Though I generally wish people would stop throwing away summer so early when it is...
Nothing on a Saturday morning toward the end of summer
Messenger and other chat type places are funny in that what you type there disappears as soon as you close the window. You can set it to save to a history of your chat but to me that is creepy, ...
Stuff....
My new car: Quote from Toward the End of Time by John Updike:On Saturday Gloria directed Jeremy and me to dig up the Siberian iris that has flourished on the stony slope behind the two scrawny pe...
Book Description
Just a few words that don’t mean anything.
