• I just love wood!

    Don’t you? It’s versatile.  (meaning:  so many uses) You can heat your home with it. You can cook with it. You can pick your teeth with it. You can paddle a ball with it (or a hiney wink wink just kidding) You can measure with it (yard sticks and rulers) You can play basketball on…

  • Beam Me Up!

    those lonely pilings still waiting out there in the foggy morning . . . I went inside to get some coffee thought I heard the sound of a wood pecker. I went outside and sure enough, out front on the utility pole, was a red bellied woodpecker going at it. Soon after, I heard some much louder pecking in the backyard.

  • WATS strikes again!

    or appliance buyer beware of the fine print on the extended warranty plan being sold to you . . . or how BW became a little more self sufficient today. Freezing temperatures.  No clothesline.  Under those conditions, which appliance does NOT need to get broken? If you guessed clothes dryer, you guessed correctly.  This would…

  • Chapter 4 – New Job

    My first job as a roustabout for an oil production company was a great experience.  Even though it ended abruptly, I never pursued justice but instead turned my focus to finding another job.  Being single again, there was no second income to fall back on, and a J-O-B was what I needed F-A-S-T.  Despite the…