On one- or two-night trips, it can be a hassle to set up all the regalia. On longer stays, we sometimes go for it. Parked now for several days on a sandy patch of flat ground behind the cottage at the top of the hill, this has been a longer stay.
Yearly Archives: 2024
Fireflies
Mon, 8 Jul 2024, 08:13 PM (-06:00)
Trudy and Izzy had retired to the teardrop. Twilight was fading to dusk. A hint of day lingered in the western sky over the lake, but night was gathering in shadows beneath the trees on the hill. As I sat in a folding chair gazing at the fading day and at the encroaching night, fireflies […]
Crossing the Ohio
Mon, 8 Jul 2024, 04:54 PM (-06:00)
1. The Plans They stayed three nights at the Corps of Engineers Eureka Campground on the north shore of Lake Barkley in Kentucky near the Land Between the Lakes Recreation Area. Their plans after that took them briefly back towards Missouri — something that David with his westward/southward predilections is evidently well suited for. But […]
Roles
Fri, 28 Jun 2024, 06:39 PM (-06:00)
1. Where They Are Their annual trip north is underway: Trudy, Izzy and The Man. Tonite finds them in western Kentucky at the Corps of Engineers Eureka Campground on the northern shores of Lake Barkley. If you time things right you can gawk at coal barges being pushed east thru the canal. Miss Izzy timed […]
Unknown Nut
Thu, 27 Jun 2024, 10:13 AM (-06:00)
On a ridge above the lake, on the ground in the shade beneath the canopy the forest at Lake Wappapello State Park in Missouri, there’s a green nut lying on the ground. “What kind of nut is that?” it makes you want to ask. My grandfather would have known. “I don’t know what kind of […]
Tools
Wed, 19 Jun 2024, 09:22 AM (-06:00)
1. Small is Beautiful! There’s a strong preference in the Unix community for small, simple tools. It’s a philosophy that emerged roughly at the same time as E.F.Schumacher’s classic reflection on economics. The Unix Way was a philosophy spread informally but also in books, some of which are on the shelves in the other room. […]
A Consequence of Chickens
Mon, 17 Jun 2024, 03:33 PM (-06:00)
Not a meat thermometer but kinda the same. The neighbors have chickens. Which means a bounty for the compost pile. Which means too much microbial action. Which means… … baby, it’s hot inside.