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Well my friends, I am now the proud owner of Lady Blue, the craft school’s former gardening truck, and the timing couldn’t have been better. With two inches of snow on top of fall leaves and the [...]

At the craft school, we have a policy that whenever the school is selling a piece of equipment, staff members get the first chance to buy it before it goes to the general public. If more than one [...]

I’ll get back to Al, soon, I promise… Meanwhile, here is the training regimen I designed for myself. I’ve been doing it for about three weeks and it feels great. It’s in preparation for the [...]

{There are two brief posts about this that set the stage. Just scroll down and look for 11/7 and 11/8 posts…} “Schultz?” “Yes, Sir.” “What kind of name is that?” “A German name, “ I said. “Isn’t [...]

I went for the original Obama HOPE poster instead of the Cafe Press imitation image on the shirt. Here’s a link to a pretty cool Obama paraphernalia site: http://www.projecthope08.com/. I [...]

{continued from yesterday} Al’s been in Spruce Pine since 1939 and spent his childhood in Ingalls in Avery County. Despite his rumored wealth, he lives modestly and dressed by the book. The [...]

We were supposed to be stood up. Al Onteroa, by all accounts, was a mysterious man too busy to be troubled with anybody who wasn’t in the timber or mining business. Twice he cancelled a lumber [...]

On Friday, payday, I will purchase the following shirt:http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/item/obama-graffitti-dark-tshirt/273443405 Unless, of course, I can find the Sheperd Fairey print of the obama [...]

The old lady on the hill was right. We thanked her and went on our way with some semblance of directions between the two of us. Heading back out River Haven Drive, things seemed quieter. The [...]

I fixed the spacing issue on the header of my website. Sorry.