Thoughts Of A Free Man

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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Adventures in Surveying: Falling Trees, Deluge, Ticks...Jail

Surveying has been real this week and it has been fun, but it hasn't been real fun. We've spent the last couple of days under the hopeful specter of rain that never came, at least not at the right time. To be good rain needs to be falling in the morning when I wake up and the radar needs to show a... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Homegrown Tomato Sandwich and My Garden Thoughts

I just finished eating perhaps the greatest summer meal of all time: a homegrown tomato sandwich. Mine was made with Publix whole wheat bread, toasted and smeared with Duke's mayonnaise and the guest of honor was a good ripe Bradley tomato from the 40 some-odd plants I set out at my parents house a... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, July 7, 2007

10 Important Fiction (and Light Non-fiction) Books as of 30 June 2007

I scribbled the following list on a cocktail napkin as I sat sipping a Yazoo Pale Ale and was being ignored by perhaps the worst bar tender in Nash-vegas. 1. Women by Charles Bukowski – the ultimate introduction into the booze fueled, sex filled, chauvinistic world of the original dirty old man.... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Extreme Surveying With Distressed Wildlife

This has been the week of my woodland adventure. Beginning bright and early Monday morning the woods began to close in around me. And now I have come out the other side wet and pale with bad case of tennis elbow. The culprit woods is a parcel hundreds of acres in size near the Nashville Airport. It... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Earl Scruggs

At the back of the Ryman Auditorium there is a series of exhibits in wooden cases celebrating past performers and milestones over the course of this venue’s hundred and twenty year history. One of these exhibits describes the Ryman as the birthplace of bluegrass music and features as a backdrop a... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

The Mountain - How TAPS Drove Me To Drinking

It can be so difficult sometimes to sit at home. I was content with the notion of having a nice quiet evening...that was at 2:30 this afternoon and I was tired from a day spent in hot sunshine walking through fields and dirt. But now its 7:30 and I have that inner urge to go on out and see what I... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Interesting Birds I have Seen In the Last 2 Weeks

indigo bunting loggerhead shrike mockingbird redwing blackbird eastern bluebird redtail hawk pileated woodpecker mourning dove purple martin tree swallow kestrel (sparrow hawk) turkey vulture black vulture American goldfinch Meadowlark (field lark) cardinal kingfisher great blue heron 1,000,000... Sign in to see full entry.

Lust In The Time Of Dried-Out Boogers

Sometimes I sit down at the keyboard and just start typing. I sit down to write with nothing to say but then I just start moving my fingers and my mind catches up. So maybe I can write about our drought here in middle Tennessee. Its very bad dry. Wednesday T and I were at one of our largest... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

I Don't Wear Underwear (and the short episode of a successful songwriter)

and my cargo shorts, as always, seem too big. I just walked back up the hill from the mailbox, without a belt, and my short pants were in constant threat of dropping off. What a surprise that would have been to the young lady with the sad face, who pulled up to check her mail, leaving her squallin'... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

In lieu of having anything to say...

I'll post a link to the coolest music you will hear today Eurotrash Girl Sign in to see full entry.

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