‘Flipping’ your comfort zone
Tweet Atlanta can sometimes feel like another country. It can be fun to go up and visit for a spell, but I do not think that I would like to live there. My wife spends a lot of time in Atlanta. She wanted to try a burger joint that she heard about. Okay, [...]
Read More →An Ode to an Outhouse
Tweet In 1992 the EPA mandated that toilets have high efficiency standards. I think that is about the time that my trouble with indoor plumbing began. I grew up in a home that was built in the 1970s. One flush and BAM…the job was done! I have not had the same experience with [...]
Read More →Hiking the Gorge
Tweet Y’all, we live in a beautiful state! One of Georgia’s nicknames is the State of Adventure. Georgia has so many things that call out to those with a spirit of adventure. From the Wiregrass, to the mountains, to the Golden Isles, there is something for everyone.
Read More →Slipping In The Bull Sluice
Tweet “Clean your feet off before you get in the boat. You don’t want to sit in sand and mud.” Those were the words that we heard from Zack before the big adventure. Then our guide bent over and pulled a small silver ear ring out of that same sandy mud and asked [...]
Read More →The value of AC
Tweet I have a new appreciation for one of the greatest inventions of all time. It is not the wheel or the airplane that recently caught my new found admiration but rather the invention by Willis Haviland Carrier in 1902, indoor air conditioning. We noticed that there was a problem with the system during [...]
Read More →Memorial Day
Tweet From time to time someone donates an old tattered United States Flag to the Boy Scouts, or sometimes directly to our Cub Scout Pack, to be property retired. Earlier this month, we included a flag retirement ceremony as part of our annual crossover at the local Boy Scout camp. There we [...]
Read More →All washed up
Tweet Those of you have read my columns know that I have a natural aversion to technology and change. One of the things that I have grown to love though is YouTube because of all of the handyman lessons that are on the videos. It is a great way for the less handy [...]
Read More →Getting better, not older
Tweet The ol’ gray mare, she ain’t what she used to be. That popular folk song that we sang when I was in school used to make me worry about getting older. That poor old mare could no longer kick the whiffle tree because of age. In many of my columns, I have [...]
Read More →The Banjo Bug
Tweet I have to blame all of this on my blacksmith friend Lyn Belcher. Mr. Belcher had a blacksmith shop in downtown Sasser, Georgia, and I often enjoyed going there. The ambiance was nice. He had created a rustic look in his showroom to display his metalwork, and he had Bluegrass music piped [...]
Read More →Trophies for everyone?
Tweet Among all of the great staples of Spring is Field Day! In the last two weeks, I have seen many Field Day pictures posted from area schools. My own son counted down the days until last Friday when the students at his school left the books in the classroom and hit the [...]
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