FOR MANY MOONS
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Garage Pt 2: Cement Pour
Cement-pour day is always exciting. The huge truck churns and grunts. Out comes the sloppy mess. The guys spread it around, working quickly as a team. Six or so hours later, it’s a foundation. (And a floor.) My first-ever garage floor, for my first-ever garage. It’s actually concrete, not cement. Cement is the the binder…
Ireland – Via Farm & Family
Ireland’s a popular destination for Americans seeking castles and cliffs, uually via tour. It’s worth doing that way, but I did it differently — via farm and family. (Cliffs included.) There’s no Irish in my family DNA; it’s all Finnish. But my niece married an Irishman. Her mother — my oldest sister — visits them…
Bushwhacking
Bushwacking: making one’s way through wild areas without following a designated path or trail. And so we did, during a hike yesterday to and along the Huron River not far from my camp. And it was wild! The origins of the term harken to our country’s beginnings, when private individuals and “irregulars” attacked each other…
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