Latest Column - Where I'm Coming From

Now, if you’ve been a reader of my columns for a while now, you may think that I was raised out in the country somewhere. Perhaps on a farm with rolling hills and meadows of wildflowers nearby, lots of trees and a river or pond in the area too – my younger days being spent listening to gentle breezes, birds singing and crickets a-chirping.

The reality is, for the first six years of my life, this could not have been further from the truth....

What's your Sign ?

Latest Column - Seedlings Wo-Wo-Wo Seedlings

had some fun with this one. I wonder if the Scarborough Hannaford's is having a run on Lasagna Pans this week ?

Sláinte!

Happy St. Patrick's Day !


Written on the back of the Worry Stone envelope: "There are only two things to worry about: either you are well or you are sick. If you are well, then there is nothing to worry about: but if you are sick; there are two things for you to worry about: either you get well or you die. If you get well, then there is nothing to worry about. If you die then there are two things to worry about: either you go up or down. If you go up, then there is nothing to worry about, but if you go down you will be so busy shaking hands with old friends you won't have time to worry".

Lighten up

I recently made the decision to avoid the "Castanza Wallet"...I was by no means over stuffed, but i thought it was time to slim things down a bit. I might even try putting my new slimmed down version (no pictures, no superfluous membership cards) in my left pants pocket. I wonder if there is a term for the imprint that wallet wears into pants and jeans over time ?

Yeah, i know, i live on the edge.

Latest Newspaper Column - Plant it Again, Sam

For some reason, when I thought “flower show” I had images of little girls, sun dresses and tea parties all walking from table to table looking at bouquets and centerpieces. In other words, more foo-foo than poo-poo (oh, sorry I meant “composted manure”)

(click the Title to read the whole article) My editor loves to get comments on the site too!

Garrett and a unicycle

look at him go !!

Handlebars? He don't need no stinkin' handlebars!

Great article on what's really "Green"

"Consuming until you're squeaky green. It feels so good. It looks so good. It feels so good to look so good, which is why conspicuousness is key...It's done with the best of intentions, but all that replacing is problematic. That "bad" vinyl flooring? It was probably less destructive in your kitchens than in a landfill."

Monica Hesse - The Washington Post

Trees

Passed on from a coworker who thought I would enjoy. I do.

Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

Trees

I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, 5
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain. 10

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Portland Flower Show

Still don't like the name, but i can't wait to see some stuff actually growing!! I've had more than enough of this snow and rain!!

Buddy Miles - Hendrix drummer (& California Raisins singer...who knew!!?? ) dead at 60

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Buddy Miles, a drummer who played with Jimi Hendrix and sang in the claymation commercials featuring the California Raisins in the 1980s, died Tuesday. He was 60.

Miles, who had been suffering from congestive heart failure, died in Austin, publicist Duane Lee said.

Miles was drummer on Hendrix's landmark "Electric Ladyland" album before officially joining Band of Gypsys a few months later. Miles is best known for "Them Change," a song he wrote and performed.

Sing

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Thoreau

Happy Birthday, Dad

USS Essex (CV-9) (also CVA-9 and CVS-9) was a United States Navy aircraft carrier, the lead ship of her class.

Essex was the prime recovery carrier for the Apollo 7 mission. She recovered the Apollo 7 crew on October 22, 1968 after a splashdown north of Puerto Rico.

Winter Lawn

Greener grass
Comes and goes.
One season it rests
One season it grows.

For some its never
Green enough.
For others, its perfect
No matter the month.

I'll take my grass
With it's weeds and such
Because I know it surrounds
The ones I love very much.

TK

Family Watchdog

this is kind of creepy...but i guess its better to be aware of what's in our neighborhoods. I also hope that if i were to dig a little deeper, i would find that the revenue for all the obnoxious banner ads are going to some charitable cause.
TK



When you visit this site you can enter your address and a map will pop up with a small icon of a house when you live.

Surrounding your house you will see red, blue, and green, dots covering your entire neighborhood.

When you click on one of these dots, a picture of a person will appear with an address and the description of the crime he or she has committed.

This site was developed by John Walsh from Americas Most Wanted

Guess that movie line -

"...the laddy fancies himself to be a poet!"

Latest Column - Birches on my mind

"Over the years, I’ve come to see most birch trees only as white accents against a predominately brown and green landscape of pines, oaks and maples. They seem to appear sometimes randomly as solitary beacons of contrast in the forest."

Read the whole article by clicking the link above.

TK

Good bunch of guys here

...at least they sound pretty cool.

TK

PS...now i know how "Slim Shady" feels

We shoot...we score !

Well it took more than 20 years, but it looks like Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' program finally actually did something, sort of.

What I'm Reading - Disappearances - Howard Frank Mosher

"Disappearances chronicles the efforts of Wild Bill Bonhomme and his larger-than-life father, Quebec Bill, to save the family farm. Desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered cattle herd at the end of a long winter, Quebec Bill resorts to the high-stakes world of whiskey smuggling, a traditional family occupation along the Vermont-Canada border in 1932. On an epic journey through the wilderness, the father and son encounter a cast of wild characters — and live out magical escapades as they carve their way into legend."

I still can't exactly tell if the towns in the story are made up or not...but all of his books have been great. They really put you in touch with a different way of life.