The road to Danville used to be a winding, narrow, 2-lane. A new 4 lane divided highway took its place. However, like many old roads, you can still find remnants of the old path still in use. On one of those remnants is this story. Not far from town is the entrance to Danville Loop 1. There are houses, …
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GUEST POST from Don: Finding the Exit: Opting out of Online Payments
Before beginning I want to be clear: 1) I am not seeking advice. I know the internet is “secure.” I also know that internet entities spy on us. (There may be a contradiction somewhere in those two statements). 2) I am not giving advice. I do not know how I became interested in this topic…maybe I was in a …
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GUEST POST from Don: Allegheny Blackberries
I grew up on an acre of country land, not near neighbors, in the middle of western Pennsylvania. The tops of mountains had already been peeled away to harvest coal; but the Interstate had yet to snake through. Thus, I remember things seldom spoken. For example, travelling to see my mom’s sister and family in Ohio we …
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GUEST POST from Don: Romantic Sunset At The Beach
My wife and I were having a relaxing weekend at the cottage near the lake. It was our anniversary and I planned a wonderful experience for us. After being married longer than we were single it was difficult to plan something special. That, and I am particularly NOT a celebratory-type of person. I would rather not have a …
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GUEST POST from Don: Fun Facts About Carpenter Ants
I’m coming up on 30 years in pest control. After a few years as an employee, I became an owner. Now I am an employee again (in another state). I’m not paid as much working as an employee, but I don’t have to answer calls on weekends or deal with big issues. I have seen things most people never …
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GUEST POST from Don: Bad Habits
BAD HABITS sink ships. Well… in this case it almost sank a ferryboat service. Valley View Ferry has been in operation since 1785. That is when former Revolutionary War veteran John Craig petitioned the state of Virginia to operate a ferry at Valley View on the Kentucky River near the mouth of Tates Creek. (Yup! The ferry began service …
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GUEST POST from Don: Doing Faith Wrong
from Don: “Here’s one that is not exactly biographical…I was laying in bed thinking about a Bible study I was part of today…when it all came to me in a flash. I had to get up and jot some notes. Then I laid back down and was almost asleep when a brief hailstorm hit…and then I was …
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GUEST POST from Don: Quirky!
As a person who has spent most of his life in Michigan, the small town in Kentucky where we now live is often amusing. I am sure the long-time residents here think of it as “homey.” Driving south on Main I have to turn left to get home. Traffic at 4 pm is heavy. There is NO break …
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GUEST POST from David: Remembering The Internet
David is a friend of mine from way back. We met on the old usenet, way before google was a thing (let alone a thing that took over usenet), on soc.penpals. He lived in the UK at the time, we became pen-pal friends, and later, when I was going through a terrible time in my …
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GUEST POST from Don: Ten-Foot Trestle
That the presence of railroads for small farm communities was of great importance a century or more ago is an understatement. It allowed people in villages and rural communities to move their crops and animals to market and receive back products from distant cities. Railroads also created some problems. Farmers often had fields or herds on both …
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