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More Golden Rule, Less Smoke and Mirrors

April 15, 2011 4 Comments

More Golden Rule, less smoke and mirrors. If we could get that idea through our society, it would be great. My goal is a bit less ambitious though.

Twas the Night Before Christmas and all through This Great Land

December 22, 2010 0 Comments

Twas the night before Christmas and all through this great land. Not a creature was stirring not even the salesman…

Rural Southern Living Values

December 20, 2010 5 Comments

God, family, neighbors, country, land, and honorable work. That’s the order of it. Fiercely independent and humble servants. We as partakers in the rural lifestyle think our urban…

Places with Names

October 28, 2010 11 Comments

Since I was a boy I have loved seeing different plots of rural land. One thing that has always fascinated me was how it seems everyone has a name for their land…

Old is not new, thank goodness!

October 15, 2010 0 Comments

I live in an old place. Our farm sits on karst limestone, a sedimentary rock composed largely of the shells and skeletons of marine organisms that lived in a shallow sea several hundred million years ago.