07/05/2024
Soooo….
A 10th grader 42 years ago had a World History lesson about castles…
He went to the library (public not school) and checked out every book he could find on medieval architecture.
One of his friends had won a 35mm camera, but didn’t know how to use it, so our intrepid builder traded him lessons in photography for manual labor. (He didn’t know much more than the other kid, but checked out a few books and stayed a chapter ahead of his buddy.) (OH! This also became his profession (professional photography) and he used it to tour castles around the world later in life)
As the years went by, he would barter, buy, and trade services for labor, tools, engineering, or anything else he needed, but couldn’t supply himself…
He BUILT a CASTLE in the middle of Tennessee! (Based on one from Austria).
It’s not done yet… but it sure is cool… oh and yes, that’s a Batmobile, Darth Vader, and several other incongruities.
Oh… for those who don’t know… that’s Barb and my daughter Brittany. (Now you are almost up to speed).
08/04/2024
Our house is about 1/2 mile from the High School here in bucolic Cornersville…
As the eclipse is happening we can hear the kids in the stadium yelling every time there’s a break in the clouds.
What fun!
Sun looks like the crescent moon right now.
We are not going to get totality. Too far to the South. But it’s still cool.
No earthquakes or locust swarms (yet).
01/04/2024
Haven’t posted on here in a while… and no, I’m not dead (yet).
Been a rough 365 days, but now things are FINALLY beginning to swing the other direction.
Tomorrow I start the next phase in my life… I start at the Post Office delivering rural mail here near my home in Tennessee.
Not sure what to expect. Don’t even know what questions to ask. BUT have an insane feeling that this just might work out.
For all of you that were my students “back in the day”, thank you for the memories. I’m blessed beyond belief by some of the nice things you post, email, and text me. Your well wishes and prayers for me and my family have kept me going these past 12 months.
I’m not sure I’ll post exactly what happened. Not sure you even care. But it’s over now. The past is the past and it can’t be changed.
Love you all, wishing you the best. Goodnight for now.
