Author: Tom
I was in some serious need of water time. My boats haven’t been out on the water near enough, and I had been suffering from FOMO as I looked at photos of other paddling friends on camping trips and long paddles. The weather finally cooperated and I was ready to try someplace new. I decided … Read More “Kayaking on Wolf Creek Lake” »
Lots of heat, kind of like descending the layers of Dante’s Inferno, but it’s quite tasty. 😊 Notes: By preparing things ahead I can put this together for breakfast in about five minutes.
As the Vatican was pronouncing Habemus papam, we were exclaming Habenus tecto. We have a roof! It’s amazing what was accomplished in just a few days. Last Friday they took down all but one wall of the room that received the most damage. That one wall stood sad and alone, almost more depressing than when … Read More “How’s the House? Part 2” »
A spiritu fomicationis,Domine, hibera nos.From the lightning and the tempest,O Lord, deliver us.From the scourge of the earthquake,O Lord, deliver us.From plague, famine, and war,O Lord, deliver us. From the place of ground zero,O Lord, deliver us.From the rain of the cobalt,O Lord, deliver us.From the rain of the strontium,O Lord, deliver us.From the fall … Read More “Gimme Shelter” »
One of the ghost towns I’ve wanted to explore is Kingsbury, in Lancaster County, South Carolina. Located on the Catawba River, Kingsbury started out as a ferry town. It appears on the 1825 Lancaster District Map in Robert Mills’s Atlas of South Carolina. In the late 1700s Andrew McIlwaine chartered a ferry across the Catawba … Read More “From Kingsbury to Stoneboro – Rambling in Lancaster County” »
How’s the house? A casual question,Asked by upon encounter,Much like, “How’s the weather?”,A placeholder for deeper conversation. How’s the house? It’s tarp-covered, leakyWith cracked crumbling plaster,The ceiling open to rafters and wildlife.It sits as it did six months ago. How’s the house? It’s chaotic, A jumble not knowing where anything is,A reminder of too many … Read More “How’s the House?” »