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Dec 6 2019 Part III The Accident

“Name the greatest of all inventors.” “Accident.” Mark Twain My mind still reels from my experiences in the last few years. A friend probably my only friend wonders how I keep going through all this. Sometimes I wonder too, the only answer I keep coming up with is it needs doing. This story needs telling….


Dec 5 2019 Feel the pain

“The greatest evil is physical pain.” Saint Augustine This morning was rough. From 1 to 10, a definite 2. Every movement brought searing pain, elbows, shoulder, knees wrist, neck and especially back. I remember a scene from North Dallas forty, only I am doing this without beer, baths or cannabis. I was much worse than…


Dec 4 2019 Part II

“I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.” Jo Brand Morning chores are done for now. I went outside and gather 60 pounds of snow to melt. All on the woodstove, then into the filtering system,…


Dec 3 2019 Part I 5 years later

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain On this day 5 years ago I was T-boned by a white truck with no daytime running lights, my passenger side window was slightly frosted. The sun was in exactly in the right position to…


Dec 2 2019 Sufficiently Muffled

“I sold muffler parts over the phone when I was a teenager.” Maura Tierney On the way to my dentist the last time I heard some scraping, followed by a clunk and a very loud engine. I looked immediately in my rearview and watched my muffler bounce down the highway and into the ditch I…


Dec 1 2019 Birthday

Dec 1 1957 I was born. Still needed to make firewood. I spent the day alone and after seeing the song below I remembered why.  


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Nov 29 2019 Spilled wood

“Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.” Annie Dillard


Nov 27 2019

Some days I am just too tired after doing what needs doing to write.


Nov 26 2019 Oh Snow Good

“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” J. R. R. Tolkien Although it is hard to see in the pictures, it is snowing hard Thank God for that. I was getting low on water to filter for drinking, cooking, washing, cats and plants.  Today I managed to melt enough for bathing,…