Who owns the night sky? I wondered about that while sitting on my deck about a week ago, enjoying the near-perfect weather and delighting in the stars as they unfolded overhead. As I looked up, I noticed a string of star-like lights moving quickly, all in a row, from the southwest to the northeast. MyContinue reading “Elon Musk’s string of lights.”
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This — this! — is rural VBS.
It’s Vacation Bible School week at our church. Hope is three miles from a tiny town and five miles from our school town, so not in any town at all. This area is actually riddled with rural churches. If I tip my head to the side, roll my eyeballs oddly, and think for a second,Continue reading “This — this! — is rural VBS.”
All the news that is news.
Leo the gold-plated cat continues his reign as King House Cat. He is in as much as he is out, but as long as we don’t have a recurrence of mice in the house because he’s getting too lazy, I’m going to put up with it. Once in a while I luck out with aContinue reading “All the news that is news.”
Trust.
Last day — Boarding the bus with all the feels (on the part of me). So many changes. We had Dean; now we have Jerry. We had temp checks and masks and assigned seating for family groups; now we have none of that, just a bus ride. If I’ve said it once, I’ve said itContinue reading “Trust.”
Husbandman, the series.
Last Thursday, before it rained, Jeremy was planting soybeans up at his folks’ place. I’ve been taking this photo (and mostly adding this quote to it in some way) off and on since 2014. It’s one of those things that the timing has to be just so to get it to happen. “No husbandman wouldContinue reading “Husbandman, the series.”
The horizon.
Attempting to stand on the horizon feels like chasing after the end of the rainbow; I can see it but I can’t quite get there because of the unicorns. Living on one of the highest points in southern Buffalo County, I can see for miles in three out of the four directions. A row ofContinue reading “The horizon.”
Just gonna try it and see.
I signed up for this domain in August and bought it in January. Now it is May. Rick is already on board to write here, and I plan to add the things Tara writes as well — somehow I’ve got to simply get over my hesitations and get going. This Prairie Life — the logoContinue reading “Just gonna try it and see.”
A chickified house.
“Good Bones” S2E1, in which Mina and Karen buy a duplex for $4000, spend $180,000 turning it into a single-family home (but they should have torn it down and started over, imo; but what do I know, really), and sell it to a single guy for $259,000; and in which Tad not only knocks aContinue reading “A chickified house.”
On a serious note.
Speculation and anger are rampant regarding the idea of the 30×30 conservation proposal. There are very few facts available. Governors, who rightly ought to be in the know, are asking the same questions that run-of-the-mill citizens are asking. At our house, we spectate decisions made by agencies (mainly federal decisions made abstractly, not local agenciesContinue reading “On a serious note.”
Just don’t denigrate it.
First, if I wash up the snow clothes and stow them, am I going to regret making the effort? Second, if you know my oldest kid, you know exactly me at that age. I hope you get the public me/him and not the at-home me/him. I feel compelled to apologize to anyone who knew meContinue reading “Just don’t denigrate it.”
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