Blacksmith, Turnip Patch, Nira, Lemon Tree, Bent, Rush Fork, Black Ridge, Conner Grove, Light Shade, Maple Swamp, Maple Shade, Dairy, Widow, Hurricane Ridge, Tory Creek, Broken, Webb Hollow, Pine Branch, Dugspur, Gibson Knob, Stone Mountain, Joppa, Calvary Way, Excelsior School, Stillhouse, Willow Shade, Horse Shoe Bend, Retriever’s Run, River, Old Quarry, Big Ivy, Community, Cherry [...]
I seem destined to go through my adult life borrowing other people’s Dysons. I don’t have a problem with this. I was about to have a problem with it when one of the attachments popped off the vacuum Dyson and rolled under the car parked next to mine this morning but–miracle of miracles–the woman who [...]
Fresh, sliced pineapple that has been soaked in equal parts rum and water, dusted with cinnamon and nutmeg, and then grilled (over a flame coaxed from perfectly stacked charcoal briquettes1) is just about the best thing I have ever eaten. 1. Said stacking ability, I am told, comes encoded on the Y chromosome. Noted.
“Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touchdown 15 minutes earlier. The signals took that long to travel from Mars to Earth at the speed of light.” Sweet. Also, I like what Erik has to say about this. [...]
The rumbling starts on Thursday afternoon and doesn’t stop until the following Tuesday morning. Thousands and thousands and thousands of motorcyclists, the preponderance of them apparently riding Harleys by the sound of it, converge here for the annual Rolling Thunder gathering. Muscular and assertive bikes appear at every intersection, in every parking lot. All of [...]