One and a half seconds almost every day 2020

 

Ingenious-ish

This package receptacle on Hall's Chapel Road is weatherproof and equipped with a cable and pulley system that allows the mail carrier to open it from the car.

At this point, one assumes, the mail carrier hurls the package from the car window into the package drop, so maybe there are still some bugs in the system. Or perhaps my understanding of it is incomplete. 

 

A Good Day to Be Alive

Collecting the rainwater at Clingman's Peak in the bright sun with six-inches of snow. I can report that the bears are still active, and a brisk walk on a cold, windless day can be a fine thing if you have enough layers.

Dreams to Go Bagel Take-Out Event

 

As most people seeing this know, a group of us have, for many years, put on a big New Year's short-order breakfast at Arthur Morgan School under the name of Dreams Die Hard Diner. We couldn't do it this year (because pandemic) but a few of us felt like we had to do something--to mark the turn of the year, to keep the tradition going, and to fight back, sort of. Here's a short report with music.