Hi, The Final Resolution (maybe): In the previous three posts I outlined the history behind the erosion in my back yard and the steps I had taken to try to solve that problem. No matter what I did, my back fence kept falling in the ditch behind my house, but by the last post I …
Hi, The Partial Resolution: In the previous posts, I detailed the issues that had been weakening the ground underneath my back fence (and all of the other nine houses on my side of our cul-de-sac), and talked about the first three times I had the fence rebuilt. The latest (only partially successful) solution involved installing …
Hi, In the previous post, I covered some of the background about why the land is eroding under all of the back fences on my side of our cul-de-sac. This post is about what I went through to try to fix the problem permanently. In 2016, a year after we believe the ditch behind our …
Hi, I’ve mentioned the problems we have had with our back fence several times before. It looks like they might finally be resolved sometime this year. I’ll be telling this tale in three posts so it won’t end up as a single book-length screed, and I’ll spread it out over the space of three months …
Hi, Medical/Literary Update and Cars: Not much to tell medically that I didn’t cover in the previous newsletter. There has been no decision yet on whether and when I might have the ablation procedure to (hopefully) cure my A-Fib. My right hand is healing nicely, but I haven’t done much more writing. I did decide …
Hi, Literary Update (not much to add): My novella is a little over 40,000 words now. I hope to have the first draft of it finished fairly soon. [Note (11-7-2025): I was apparently kidding myself. For reasons I will cover later in the year, I still haven’t finished it.] I’ve already spotted a few structural …
Newsletter 047 – September 22, 2023 Hi, About the Image Above: A few things I’ll cover in this newsletter (top to bottom — charging my Chevy Bolt, one of our new faucets, and a few of Minay’s quilts suspended on our new back fence). Disclaimer: This newsletter is spliced between the sixth and the seventh …
Newsletter 017 – June 24th, 2022 Hi, About the image above: The Globe Theatre, on the south side of the Thames, is where many of Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed. This image was taken at the new Shakespeare’s Globe, which was finished in 1997, and is a reconstruction of the original. It’s located about 750 …