Boxes In Fields

Went to look at a trailer today to haul shipping containers and my first thought was “that’s a big un”.  I have been dragging trailers around since forever.  Well not forever, but close to it. There have been homemade short box trailers, wide construction trailers, farm trailers, dump trailers, goosenecks, several different travel trailers, and tiny little sailboat trailers. Trailers have been hauled in the pouring down rain during rush hour traffic, cross-country on roads not wide enough for cars,…

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It that not the most beautiful bottle of water you have ever seen?  Look all you want but you can’t have it.  In the book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the simple line describing life on a boat, “water, water, everywhere , nor any drop to drink”.  Sadly, this line still applies in the modern society of the 21st century where too many people do not have access to safe drinking water. Even more sadly is the simple…

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I have heard of New York time, Central Standard time, and beach time.  Where we live there is such a thing as local time.  Locals have a love-hate relationship with what is referred to as “our city’s name-ian” time. This is a small mom and pop county of 20K people.  There is no rush hour traffic, no rush to beat peak hours at the one and only grocery store, and there is surely no rush to get work done.  In…

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