“It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.” Proverbs 19:2 This was how the morning started, reading my daily Proverb (31 days, 31 chapters), and looking out at a cold morning as I built up the woodstove. I made coffee and watched my fire flicker [...] Continue Reading »
zeal without knowledge
3first baby pictures of the week, a toy box, and a side story about Ashley
3I’d like to share some things that I got Addair over the weekend while my Dad and I did some shopping. I’ve started him a little toy box. Of course we have the regular toys, piles of them. But since we are soon to be living in an Airstream travel trailer we are stream-lining down [...] Continue Reading »
the new truck saga part 2, a little about going on foot, and a bit of unfolding news
0Let me recap from the other night. On New Years Eve I went looking for a truck down the airport motor mile on the Alcoa Highway. After recent months of investigating, I knew exactly the truck I needed. When I walked onto about the third lot I saw it exactly. It was love. I turned [...] Continue Reading »
can you help our blog?
3On January 15th this blog will be three years old. In the beginning I pasted entries onto my Myspace page and Facebook notes, just to let you know we were here. Ashley realized I was serious and joined me in February. For two years we hosted on wordpress.com and saw our numbers slowly rise. For [...] Continue Reading »
how i came to write pop country
1If the rain holds back today, which it isn’t, I’m going to finish my paint job. And since no one should get into any exterior painting with a 70% percent chance of thunderstorms, I won’t. But just to say, I could finish it in a day if I could get a good one in. Instead [...] Continue Reading »
This is a test
4This is a test. It is only a test, I am blogging from my phone and contemplating a big idea. At the moment I’m picking up odd jobs and between my neighborhood’s Facebook page for Old North Knoxville and my church classifieds at All Souls Knoxville, I couldn’t be busier. Scraping old paint and landscaping. [...] Continue Reading »
anniversary, fountain city history, a police altercation, and a missing dog
6Yesterday was a remarkable day. To celebrate our anniversary we made a big breakfast of buckwheat pancakes and bacon while watching endless Parks and Recreation episodes on Netflix. The days agenda, and our anniversary gift to ourselves, was to construct a new couch; a simple, rugged, and perhaps even collapsible piece to survive a possible [...] Continue Reading »
taking a second from headphone land
2I’m taking a second from the studio to hype my new CD. People keep asking me how it’s going, I tell them, “It’s great.” Ashley wants to know. I tell her we’ll never have to work again. She’s having a hard time with her work, so I tell her that. I hit the gym and [...] Continue Reading »
an old north knoxville utopia, the consumption, and why i grow tomatoes
0My brother gave me a 55 gallon drum last summer. He made an excellent compost bin with one, it hangs sideways between two posts and spins so you don’t have to stir, then dumps right into a wheel barrel. I’m making a rain barrel out of mine. To do that, it took me a year [...] Continue Reading »
acquiring a strong sense of taste
1I was just making fresh pesto for tonight’s Food For All. Pesto for twenty and it can’t be eaten yet, basil is precious right now. Then I was staring at two extra garlic cloves, peeled and sitting in a bowl. My friend Edwin in Mexico taught me a trick. It’s too early to call a [...] Continue Reading »