One of the first investments I made when I retired from teaching was to buy a metal detector. I have not used it as much as I’ve wanted to however. It seems golfing, writing blogs, gardening, lawn work, Facebook, Hallmark movies and marketing books have tended to dominate my waking hours. This weekend I decided it was time to get the twenty year old metal detector out of the closet, replace the batteries and go exploring. Again I faced the…..
Over thirty years ago when we moved from our house in town to our newly built country home I brought along an unusual object. I don’t know why for sure but I just couldn’t part with it. It was a twelve foot white picket fence that stood next to our stucco garage in town. Even back in 1980 I was an environmentalist and had a love and concern for our earth. So it didn’t take me long to figure out…..