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Thanksgiving We’ve got rainbows in the kitchen again...it must be time for Thanksgiving. On the south side of our house, there’s a big, old picture window in…

Nov 24

I have made FIRE...For about 15 years, we heated our house using an outside wood boiler to supplement the furnace in the basement. Over the past couple of years, s…

Nov 19

Daylight And now we’re on Standard Time. Yeah, I don’t care... This is one of those issues that people get passionate about, but me, not so much. I liked…

Nov 12

Erased I just found out I haven’t existed since 2018. That’s embarrassing. With a new book out, I’ve been doing humiliating amounts of shameless self-p…

Nov 5

Swans We’ve been watching swans in the north corn field. It’s so cool. We first started seeing swans around here just a few years ago. Well, that’s no…

Oct 29

Barrel And then we bumped the barrel back home. That’s kind of an awkward sentence, but it’s an awkward situation. We have a large metal barrel on our …

Oct 22

Ikagai One of the pleasures of having children smarter than I am is they are always in the process of educating me. Recently, our son sent me a meme ab…

Oct 15

Borkowski Wrecking I checked. Borkowski Wrecking is still there. Sunday, there were four generations sitting around our dining room table. We had a good meal, and …

Oct 8

What works...I was standing at the edge of a cliff, looking at one of the most beautiful sights I’d ever seen. A waterfall tumbled off the edge of a grassy m…

Oct 1

Faroes I drew the curtain on the bedroom window and saw a dangerous green mountain, a few wisps of brilliant white clouds circling its crest. I grabbed…

Sep 24

On the road again...I bought new boots, comfortable ones. Then I discovered that if you wear a pair of boots for thirty hours or so, they’re not THAT comfortable. L…

Sep 17

Nice review from the UK Here’s a quote and a link to a very nice review for my latest novel I received from a publication in the UK. “I use some heavy words here, but t…

Sep 16

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