Summer has once more sneaked in without a proper introduction from Spring. The last few months have been so cool and wet that none of us were thinking about summer arriving early. But here it is, in the 80’s and it’s just turned June!
We are getting used to less all the time. Less cash in our wallets, especially! We realize that higher fuel prices has been translating into higher prices on everything else. If it has to be transported to wherever we buy or consume it, that is going to cost more, therefore what we buy has to cost […]
I just spent the better part of the weekend tweaking my server’s spam filters. This is an ongoing battle for anyone who’s dealing with the internet. Lately we have been flooded by a new wave of junk mail from these indescribable morons who must believe the whole Western world is as stupid and greedy as […]
Last year I was almost mesmerized for a couple of months watching American Idol. I laughed through the ridiculous auditions, amazed at the whole process. Sure, I know there are hundreds of thousands of people out there who have dreams of becoming famous.
This week I had some new activity at my window birdfeeder. We were visited by some starlings (or are they grackles? I have to get that bird book out again and look) and a cowbird! Cowbirds are interesting critters. They don’t build nests.
This morning I had the NRV scanner channel on, listening for word on the manhunt in Giles County. Naturally the scanner was broadcasting more than just that one event, so I could hear bursts from Pulaski, Montgomery, and Floyd counties. That’s how I came to be listening when the call came through about a pickup […]
One of the songs I sing says, “the more I learn, the more I know, I don’t know anything” and that sums up how I feel today. There is so much to learn and discover, there just aren’t enough years in this life to get into all of them.
One of the things I bragged to my friends back north about when we moved here was "the wave." I even proposed to some friends that you could make a great commercial promoting Floyd about this. A brochure about Floyd County once touted the county as having some of the highest elevations in the state […]
We actually had tornado watches in the Blue Ridge Mountains last week. Over in Franklin and Henry Counties they had tornado WARNINGS, which are much worse. The National Weather Service visited Big Stone Gap (a bit south and west of here, but still in the mountains) and said that an EF-1 tornado did indeed touch […]
The wind is howling around outside tonight, which naturally brings to mind the proverb that March “comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” Today was 60 degrees and sunny, and the first day of spring is just a couple of weeks away…if the calendar is to be believed any more than […]
I’ve had to deal with my share of squabbles between kids over the years. Usually it’s enough to get the kids to look each other in the eye. Seeing the hurt expression in the sibling’s face is often sufficient to make the offender feel sorry for hurting the other.
We’ve been battling with the flu bug at our place for the last two weeks. Fortunately it wasn’t as bad as in years past, this bug was annoying, but not particularly devastating. Just another cycle to endure in the scheme of things, I guess.
