We have made it through the first month of 2021 and this (construction language) year is not getting any better. So far this month the wind has blown every day, with at least two days of top gusts more than eighty miles per hour. Here is the last day of the month and at least for this minute, the wind is not blowing. Maybe better things are ahead. I’ve been working on the same construction project since last spring. I am now in the ninth month of construction. I say this beca

Things are a-changin', or they already have. Moving to the “mountains” almost twenty years ago, I soon found out that even simple things could be changed forever. What may not have been a big deal to most, bothers me to this day. There was no morning newspaper delivery “up here.” From the time since I was nine years old, newspapers have been a big part of my life. With the money made delivering the “paper” (plus tips) I was able to buy my first car at age sixteen. I kept the

Is it me, or is 2021 starting off worse than 2020 ended? I’m a grumpy kind of guy anyway but this year is not helping. As many of you know, Your Daily Fiber closed its brick and mortar store in the last quarter of 2020. The ramifications of that decision are extending into 2021. Also, we moved our yarn and fiber equipment into a portable storage container on our ranch. That part of this story is working out quite well. Now let’s get to the part that makes me grumpy. Some of y

This story is a few weeks late. This story has everything. It is a comical, love-filled mystery with a happy ending. (Grammarly wants me to change “happy ending” to “happy conclusion”. Does anyone say “happy conclusion”? {Construction language}, Grammarly. This is my story.) Last October, while grocery shopping, I found the perfect Christmas gift for Elaine. The second I saw it on the clearance rack I knew I had to get it for my lovely wife. It was divine intervention. God p

"We're all diamonds in the rough We'll all shine soon enough Struggles in this life can make you strong We waste the good times and the bad But keep in mind that when you're sad Those tears of joy and sorrow lead you home Every drop of water shapes the stone"---Allen Shamblin/Steve Seskin It’s over, 2020 is gone. 2020 has been rough on us all. I’m not liking 2021 so far. (I hate when Grammerly tries to correct my sentences.) I have a story that starts in 2020, and ends in 202