Two Kinds of Food
I was looking for a can of pink salmon in the cupboard. It took a few minutes of moving unwanted items out of the way before I came to the can of salmon I was looking for. A light bulb went on in my head. There are 2 kinds of food in my cupboard and…
Traveling While in Pain
While waiting in Bogota for my flight to Dallas, my left knee swelled up and gave me intense pain. This happens to one or the other knee every couple of months (No, I haven’t had anyone look at it.) As you can imagine, hobbling through the Bogota airport was an ordeal. By God’s grace, the…
Carter County Hwy Dept
I worked in agroforestry in Central & West Africa because it provided long-term food production solutions. In the picture below you will see how we got breadfruit and jackfruit trees to Mimpoutou, Republic of Congo in 2004. I haven’t been back since, but I sure hope those trees are now producing fruit. Agroforestry has great…
Ma’s Hammer
A little over a year ago I was in my mother’s basement. I opened a drawer in a worktable and saw the fiberglass handled hammer that was kept in the junk drawer of the kitchen in the days of my youth. She wasn’t called “Handy Elaine” for nothing. The hammer brought back a lot of…
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Adventures in Suburbia 