Entry #79 – Three Pillars of Sustainability and the Fall of a Nation
Hope plants a tree with her greatgrandparents Last weekend we had a family gathering at our ranch and my parents, now in their early nineties, brought a box of sixty pine tree [...]
Entry #78 – Excerpt from “The Good Soil” – Chapter Four
I’ve set aside today to sit at my computer and write chapter four of the book I’m working on called the “Good Soil”. The book takes both poetic and prophetic license as it digs deep [...]
Entry #77 – Memories of Old Blue
Back in the 60′s the folk singer Joan Baez wrote and sang a song about her old dog named Blue. She sang, “Well I had an old dog and his name was Blue – Betcha [...]
Entry #76 – Memories of Homemade Fun
When I was a young boy my parents sent me each summer on a Grey Hound Bus to my aunt and uncles farm on the McKinsey River in Oregon. [...]
Entry #75 – Brook’s $60 homemade composter
Inside view - note inside flange Outside flange, 6" nipple & 4X4 post A couple of weeks ago our son Brook called me and asked if we [...]
Entry #74 – Country Grown Kids
Sometimes I think my dad and I have a little Inca blood in us. We both love building rock retaining walls and between the two of us have built [...]






