We paused at the Chattanooga Camping World to get our Airstream’s wheel bearings re-packed. We learned we need a new tire and bearings for one wheel, because the cover cap came off, we lost our grease and burned up those bearings. The wheel then rode a bit sideways and wore out the tread on the […]
Read MoreWe plus daughter Stephanie cooked Christmas dinner for ten at Julee’s home in Newport, TN (not the home of the Jazz Festival). We roasted beef rib, Jule did a turkey, and together we prepared sides of green beans with bacon, garlicky potatoes, cranberry relish, velvet cake, pecan pie, and six bottles of Cristalino Spanish […]
Read MoreWe all has our worries now and then, but try being a cancer survivor with no medical insurance. Many of mine just took that Midnight Train to Georgia.
Read MoreWorkkampers are leaving Heartland RV Park. Four neighbors have already left; Saturday morning we’ll pull out for Tennessee. We’re going to camp along the French Broad River and have Christmas dinner with our old bud New Orleans Julee in Newport, TN. We’ll stir up some clam chowder, and cook a rib roast with potatoes and […]
Read MoreReader K.D., the Big Kahuna, suggested we discuss Kat’s Amazon experience, so we shall. They gave Kat her last day notice: it’s Thursday, December 19. She survived the fifty and sixty hour weeks, the diet of sack lunches, and the ten to thirteen miles of walking every work day. She figured out a solution to […]
Read MoreWeeks ago I talked of another blog on the science behind the mushrooms planted below the Bernheim Forest parking lot. I’ve done my research. One of the problems with suburban development is water pollution from automobiles. Most of it is motor oil, gasoline, and grease, but brake and transmission fluids nurture very few […]
Read MoreAround 5:00 p.m, June 1, 1971, I was given a $45 ticket for an expired inspection sticker. That was a lot of money back then. My sticker had been valid up until the day before. For the two weeks before that I had been pulling ticks and scratching redbugs while enduring the Louisiana 156th Infantry’s […]
Read MoreAfter traveling from March to September, life feels slower, yet busier in Campbellsville. Kat works 50 or 60 hours a week at Amazon, and it seems like I work at least 50 while trailer-keeping, shopping, cooking, and struggling to get affordable health care. There’s time to write, but not so much to write about. I’ve […]
Read MoreHow is your ACA application going? I’m betting better than ours. I’m still trying to get our application accepted the way I submitted it. There was a one digit error in my SS number, and in Kentucky’s website, once an application is e-signed you can’t change your SSN. Perhaps because of that error I […]
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