Author: Rod

Jul 21 Realize

My realization today is about work. My problem isn’t doing the work, it never was. It is about not being able to do the work. Weather, injuries, finances, transportation and a hundred other reasons. This morning I had another wierd development. When I woke my right arm from my elbow to my finger tips was…


July 20 The Write Thing

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin I did my morning tour of duty including a a large deposit in the compost bucket. Don’t ask and I won’t say any more. The trip to the pond to get more water boatman and weeds mixed with some murky water was embarked…


Jul 19 Murder of Hundreds

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot Today more water boatmen, dragon fly nymphs and others too numerous to count were murdered in my quest for filtered pond water. I travelled down the steps to the pond and filled another 20 liter bucket with the stinkiest, blackest foul…


Jul 18 Water

Just made my trip to my dugout ( thats Albertan for pond) to get a bucket of water to pour through the filters. I was amazed by how many weeds had grown during the heatwave. I was almost sure I could walk across the top. They were thicker than I ever remembered. I tossed the…


July 17 Ten day Heatwave


July 12

“I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell.” Alfred Lord Tennyson


July 8 Heat Wave


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May 27

Will write soon.


May 22 Grandmother

Susanne Wachsmann 1913 – 2008 Born February 25, 1913 passed away peacefully on September 19, 2008. Predeceased by husbands Lothar Wachsmann (1996) and Adolf Binder (1960). She is survived by sons Wolf, Gerry (Liz) and Winfried (Carrie); daughters Gislind (Erwin), Megan (Barry) and Birgit (Brian); 20 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren as well as many extended…