Appalachian Mountain Dreams

When I was growing up, my favorite activities revolved around camping and being in nature. As I started my high school career in Pasadena I even went so far as to take Vocational Agriculture as a means of starting on a career path that I hoped would lead to a career in forestry. Over the years the realities of a

Weekday coffee in this house is made by my wife as she is up and out the door most mornings before I roll out at 5:30. Yesterday’s coffee was a little cool by the time I sat down with my first cup and when I checked the warming plate wasn’t…So I figured it was time to replace a coffee maker.

I stood out in the backyard last evening and watched the weather light show as the severe thunderstorms moved across Houston to the north of here. Lightning rolled through the clouds over two thirds of the sky as the mockingbirds sang in the background. We were far enough away that the thunder didn’t really reach us…just the light. Oh, occasionally

I know I am beginning to sound like a broken record in some regards, but this can not be a normal weather pattern. Here we are in the second week of May with a named storm off of the East Coast, the daily temperatures in the Blue Ridge Mountains are forecast to be as high or higher than they are

A foggy morning in the backyard…

I was just looking at the morning weather forecast for Boone, NC. It set me to wondering about how normal these (seemingly) high temperatures were so I clicked over to Ray’s Weather and checked the almanac for Boone. Looks like Boone will be flirting with record highs this week if the forecast is right. You know, when the mountains of

Before there were Blogs there were WebLogs. My first self-published writings on the web were my genealogy research at the old GeoCities. Just for the fun of it I thought I would put up the original weblog here for your perusal…At that time my WebLog was not a daily journal. I doubt I was online daily in those early years.

Gary Boyd, here is your schedule for: Tue May 8, 2007 All Day North Carolina Mountain Dreams Anniversary (Gary Boyd) And so the circle closes and a new round begins… This mornings coffee muses start another year of beginning my day with a cup of coffee and a computer filled with email and news… First up on the email front

I never would have thought a year ago on May the 8th that this blog would have made it this far. For most of my adult life I tried to develop the journal habit and failed. So when I started this collection of almost daily musings, I had no real expectation that it would last any longer than the many

If my posting slows down a bit in the coming weeks, chances are it’s due to a bit of a family crisis coming to a head. Nothing life threatening (at least for now), just parental control running up against teenaged thoughts of adulthood. Youngest daughter has taken the opportunity of her 17th birthday to remove herself from the family household.