I wrote earlier about the driftless area in Iowa and Wisconsin. Drift is an older word for the stuff that glaciers move around, and then leave behind as they melt. I’m more familiar with ‘moraines’ and the hills they create. Seattle is an example. Those hills are steep but unstratified (unlayered) junk. The hills around [...]
Making bottle caps fly
When I visit my grandchildren I like to bring activities that I think will amuse them. One of the things I brought last summer was clear old-fashioned film canisters and some AlkaSeltzer tablets. We take a glass of water outside and sit on the steps. Add water to the canister, drop in a half tablet [...]
New Germany, New Switzerland, …
I wrote about going camping over Memorial Day weekend at New Germany State Park in Maryland. The area was settled by Germans moving south from a trail that ran through Pennsylvania and Maryland. That trail was later used by General Braddock in the French and Indian War (the Seven Years War?) and then probably by [...]
Happy Fourth of July!
I managed to write 1200 words on my Novel-in-Progress. Jessamyn is almost out of the hayloft. As soon as daylight comes she can jump down. I’m happy about that. Writing is tough. So, in an effort to see how others have done things I’d like to do, I looked up L. M. Montgomery on the [...]
Saint Augustine
Praise and honor be yours, O Fountain of Mercy! What dangers threatened my soul when it rashly hoped that by abandoning you it would find something better! Whichever way it turned, on front or back or sides, it lay on a bed that was hard, for in you alone the soul can rest. You are [...]
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