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The Rural Sophisticate: One Man's Passing
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014. In an adjacent room picture boards of the years gone by. Frozen moments in time giving only a partial glimpse, a hint at the constant thread of their family's DNA code. The man's commitment to a dream, embodied and shared by his partner of 46 years. Soul mates that built a sanctuary for raising a family on the side of a mountain. They have two sons. The heartfelt eloquence of the youngest son as he spoke of his father. The elder son spoke to. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Rural Sophisticate: Whack Job
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Let’s just say that you’ve got a 500 ft fence line that needs tidying up. You’d want a tool that was up to the task wouldn’t you. Now let’s say you’re a sick and perverted industrial designer working for whatever fucked up company makes the WeedWacker. You can tell I’m warming up to a serious rant can’t you. This person needs to die by the device he or she so cruelly devised. I can’t even speak the name of this P.O.S. from HELL! OK, I’m better now, where was I. It could only have ...
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The Rural Sophisticate: Departure & Arrival
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Friday, April 29, 2011. But tonight, as my wife and dogs are softly snoring, I am thinking about my mother-in-law who passed away not long ago. We had a celebration this last Sunday which was attended by nearly 100 people that Barbara Skinner had touched the lives of in some way. She was the first librarian in what was then the new McBeath Community Library in Everson Washington. It’s just off the main drag of a small, mostly agricultural farm town. She served for eighteen years. From my own experience, ...
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The Rural Sophisticate: June 2014
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Friday, June 20, 2014. It was mid-afternoon in the barn and I was working in my clay studio. This structure, this ship in a grassy sea has a soul, and I'll post in detail about it sometime. But for now I'll focus on the cupola or more to the point of this story, the owl nest within. Is it hurt, in its final death throes, I wasn't sure. Then I realized, even in its tiny infancy, it was trying to look big and fierce by putting on a "don't fuck with me" display (in an alien sort of way). Rent ladder, strap ...
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The Rural Sophisticate: August 2011
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Sunday, August 21, 2011. Two days ago, out of curiosity I decided to walk through our fields and take a look at how the ground faired after such a mechanized beating. It was dry and its grassy hair was shorn as close as a rookie marines heading for boot camp. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What I'm Up To. Http:/ bonportfolio.blogspot.com. Http:/ hand2clay.blogspot.com. A city boy living in the country, fully engaged in design and art. View my complete profile. Watermark template. Powered by Blogger.
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The Rural Sophisticate: Chicken Tractors
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Thursday, February 10, 2011. We don’t have cable TV by choice, so when a red Netflix envelope shows up in the mailbox, it’s a happy moment. A particular DVD snuck into the queue a while ago that’s pretty obscure even for Netflix. Poly-Phase Farming. 8211; definitely five stars if you’re looking to make the most of your hogs, cattle, rabbits, and yes chickens. Flash back to the movie. I was just beginning to doze off watching a very industrious farmer mucking about in his hog pen, when I heard the wor...
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The Rural Sophisticate: Party Worms
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Thursday, February 17, 2011. Does anyone else have worms that come out at night and party in their grass? My house in West Seattle had no yard to speak of, and what there was of it never saw the blade of a mower pass over it once. Bad mowing karma, which is another story to be shared once the grass starts growing up here. Worms are our friends as every gardener knows, but this falls into the creepy beyond belief category and I wish they’d take their party elsewhere. Sorry, no pictures. What I'm Up To.
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The Rural Sophisticate: Honey, Have You Seen the Mailbox?
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Tuesday, January 18, 2011. Honey, Have You Seen the Mailbox? After looking both ways as good mothers everywhere advise, I crossed the road to find the mailbox missing and the ground littered with small cherry red fragments, part of a side mirror, and further down the road the lens from a tail light. I gathered the auto remains and eventually found the mailbox and 4x4 post across the ditch in some bushes. January 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM. I am diggin your wordsmith. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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The Rural Sophisticate: April 2011
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Friday, April 29, 2011. Let’s just say that you’ve got a 500 ft fence line that needs tidying up. You’d want a tool that was up to the task wouldn’t you. Now let’s say you’re a sick and perverted industrial designer working for whatever fucked up company makes the WeedWacker. You can tell I’m warming up to a serious rant can’t you. This person needs to die by the device he or she so cruelly devised. I can’t even speak the name of this P.O.S. from HELL! OK, I’m better now, where was I. It could only have ...
