Ice and midnight vagabonds

Crash! Thump! Another trunk sized branch laden with ice broke free and hissed through the darkness on its way down.  It sounded like a chandelier hitting the ground as ice exploded like crystal onto the leaves nearby. Day 3 of an ice storm here in Kentucky and it has taken its toll.  Granted, our “ice [...]

Hunting adventures

Boom! Without thinking, I found myself ducking to the ground and wondering where the unexpected shot had come from. After logging so much time in the woods, I have only had two instances of listening to the worrying whiz-snap of a bullet passing through the branches overhead….but when you don’t know who is in the [...]

Thank God its over

There was only one person in front of me at the voting machine. Either he seemed to be having trouble with the new electronic voting machine or he had discovered some hidden easter egg, maybe a game, on the machine and was hammering away. How hard is it? Had he been older, born when typewriters [...]

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