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Aug 6

These pictures are 3 days old. . All the rest of my pictures are taken during the day of writing. Today’s pics


Aug 3 The Day It All Changed (3)

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates Life was different when I got home. I had…


Aug 2 The Day It All Changed (2)

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings After an hour or so we arrived at Vernon Hospital. I was still calm and composed, at least until my girlfriend arrived. She started crying, then all the emotions in me let loose. I was just in a major…


Aug 1 The Day It All Changed

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. Napoleon Bonaparte August 1, 1986 Every year it seems I re-tell the story. Of how a couple of 20-somethings on their way to do a dope deal, traveling drunk and high at over a hundred miles an hour, in a Honda CRX hit me…


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July 26 Apocalyspe??

We are living on the brink of the apocalypse, but the world is asleep. Joel C. Rosenberg I drove into the village to check my mail. The Post Office was closed. The parts store, the hardware store, and everything else was closed. Not a car in the village. WTF was it the Apocalypse, was it…


July 25


July 24 Raining Again

The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I know I have used that quote before. My morning started like many others, problems to solve cats to be fed and loved. They didn’t need water thanks to the gigantic stainless steel bowl that came From Amazon….


July 19 Gasoline Powered Rockford

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey It is morning. I did morning things. I made my cold brew coffee with oat milk, had my vitamins, and got dressed. When I got downstairs, I noticed the cat bowls needed water, when I got to the cat…