Amy and Ella, in full snob mode, were complaining about the canned chili we were eating. The chili was the last of the stock of canned soups we had purchased at the start of the COVID food shortage scare. I told them,
Survive Your Family
Our family has gotten into Jackbox Games, a collection of party games hosted through an internet-connected TV and played through devices, which substitute for game pieces, cards, whiteboards, scratch pads, etc. We
Better Welts
I got several striped welts on my outer forearms from trimming weeds, this from a combination of lack of protective arm coverings and the tendency for my high-velocity spinning trimmer head to assist pebbles to self-actualize their ordinance-in-David
Coroner Trucking
Dale walked along the side of his rig, his steel-toed boots crunching through the gravel (a weighty trade from the Nike joggers he
Precision Fire Breath
Rodgers: Johnson, we need to talk about the pigeon problem on our transmission lines.
Johnson: Agreed, sir. Though, which problem? Acidic breakdown of the wire sheath from the pigeons
Graffiti Defense System
We live in Gresham, OR. While walking on the bike path next to our home and toward the creatively named Gresham Food Carts, I noticed an unusual industrial paint job. The back of a warehouse had been painted brown halfway up, terminating in a flat line transition to grayish, beige-ish concrete about nine feet up.
This strip of brown is pristine, not a graffiti mark on it, and it
Richard Mixin’
Ella said
Crackling Options
While on a walk yesterday on the bike path, Amy asked me if I could hear the overhead powerlines crackling. I couldn
Destroying to Dream
Will was crushing dandelion heads with his hand, acting like a titan destroying cities and skyscrapers. This calls for bad poetry to go on the prowl again.
On a day with sun, on a day with pride
What
10 Things I Learned While Installing a Pullup Bar
1. While cleaning up, I don