Appalachian Mountain Dreams

Sorry for the lack of posts these past couple of weeks. With a rush of (as always) last minute projects at work, and trying to do a little maintenance here at home I’ve barely kept up with emails and rss feeds of my normal reading. I’ve also restarted my genealogy research. If you really want to kill some quantity of

Who would have thought that the competence of George W Bush’s first campaign slogan would be so in line with the rest of his administration. Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t he run as a compassionate conservative who would unite the two parties? Looks like it only took the compassionate conservative six long years to accomplish the goal he

Yes! magazine has their Winter 2007 Issue online. The first paragraph of the first article starts this way…  Call it “globalization,” or the “free market,” or “capitalism.” Whatever its name, people across the United States and throughout the world are experiencing the devastating effects of an economy that places profit above all else. I haven’t had the chance yet to read the

Kate up at Cider Press Hill posted about these today… My new shopping bags My grocery store is trying out a new product. Last night when I approached the check out counter (I think I was the only shopper in the store at 10:30 PM), there was a display of reusable shopping bags. Like these: I like the idea and the

You know, it’s taken all these years for Molly to get mad, now that she is…She writes a hell of a great piece. I am only sorry she didn’t get mad 4 years ago. The president of the United States does not have the sense God gave a duck — so it’s up to us. You and me, Bubba. I

 Now here’s a gardening ~ living concept to write home about. Slow Gardening from Slow Cooking, very Zen… Leave it to Felder Rushing to come up with a concept that will get us thinking about our gardens in new ways. Slow Gardening, which gets it cues from the Slow Food movement, is gardening according to your climate and with your

Another Picasa Test

Testing Picasa BlogThis! I had not tried this in a while. Seems to have worked this time…

 Fred First has a piece up this morning that really speaks to those of us who listen to the voice of those sacred places we discover in life. The photo he posted with the story almost brings the voice of Nameless Creek to life. I can imagine the fireflies beginning to flash their welcome to the night as dusk grows

In South Texas where my Grandpa Sewell was raised, snakes are a big deal…A really BIG deal. Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes of six feet and longer are common. In the summer and fall 0f 1972, when I lived with my grandparents, we tanned a rattlesnake skin that was over eight feet long and about eighteen inches wide at the widest point.