You can have the book Drive in your hand. Go to...https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/bookshelfIt's nice to come across a book every once in a while that isn't the same unwanted rehashed material. Great read!...
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watch this
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Watch this YouTube https://youtu.be/6OA0N_uTdJM then read my book Drive. We make the Monster Piano see at www.monsterpiano.com...
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Monday, August 7, 2017
A Monster Piano!! I found www.monsterpiano.com a Monster Piano. Even at first sight, people smile and are drawn to it, and in no time their “inner child” starts responding. Soon, even the most tone-deaf are attempting Heart & Soul or the ever-popular Chopsticks. Adults can laugh and act like kids again. Of course, for children the piano is TOTALLY irresistible....
Monday, May 22, 2017
The End
The End
like 'love' or 'opportunity' I would know what to do with that gift; love or opportunity could change me absolutely and permanently for the better. The real truth, I came to understand, was our parents did give us love and opportunity. The neighbors we worked for gave us love and opportunity. Our few friends and the people of...
Sunday, May 21, 2017
250 more words tomorrow
250 more words tomorrow
few hours until a doctor came in.” “Are you the folks from Hamer?” the doc asked. We nodded. “The patient is awake and asking for you. Before you go in, he may be a little out of it. When he recovered from anesthesia, he kept demanding a lawyer.” “The doctor seemed to suggest he was more worried about...
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 116th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 116th Installment
“He’s gone,” Edith said simply. “We’ll do the milking this morning and tell you more after a while. I think you need some time to yourselves.” I sat for a minute then got up and started pacing back and forth. I was feeling a lot of things, but all-out bawling wasn’t my style. I felt more distressed about...
Friday, May 19, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 115th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 115th Installment
levels (4.0 in every class, every year); and I had amassed enough credits to graduate in three years. I would have been sixteen when I graduated, so Edith decided I wasn’t ready to go to college so I went ahead and became a senior. I think deep down they wanted a hired man for another year on the...
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 114th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 114th Installment
was the same. Chapter 32 The high school was ninth grade to twelfth grade, Linda, Russ and I rode the bus to West Jefferson High in Terreton. Unfortunately, for the first time, I found something I didn’t like. The first year in a four-year high school full of hazing and bad ass seniors playing ‘put the head of...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 113th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 113th Installment
not be saved. The fire had traveled around the entire U and the whole thing blazed high into the night. This is when we saw the 'tornado of fire' from the center of the U shape. The fire spun out and shot a twenty foot wide flame funnel a hundred feet into the air. As we watched we...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 112th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 112th Installment
an absolute cacophony of noise as wreckage settled and animals panicked. “Over there,” I pointed, as the microburst like ‘dust devil’ moved away tearing up everything in its corridor and throwing it into the air. “Jeeze! That was scary! I about pissed myself,” Russ hissed, as we watched the swirling burst of energy disappear as suddenly as it...
Monday, May 15, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 111th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 111th Installment
– the ant was screaming! I guess he didn’t like to fly. An ant can scream or at least squeak. I know it’s true because I heard it. “Ooohkaaay,” Russell stretched out the okay to amplify his doubt about my experience with the ant. He went on to remind me of the time we went hunting and noticed...
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 110th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 110th Installment
the chores, we were talking about Mother Nature and some of the strange things we’d seen. Russ was talking about seeing two scorpions fighting and about other strange bugs that he couldn’t identify. “I hate bugs!” Russ said, intending to end the subject. “Hate, that’s a strong word,” I said. “Remember the flying ants on the hottest days...
Friday, May 12, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 109th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 109th Installment
Unfortunately, the Helm drive was a bust. There were very few horsemen to go out far and wide, and not a lot of people to finish up. There were loads of jack rabbits as usual. Russ and I were taken with a dozen other kids to join the line about half mile out. The line was spread out...
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 108th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 108th Installment
the chickens were in. While we worked, the Old Man had rewired another electric fencer to the highest amperage and stretched a 1/8 inch steel cable around the inside of the corral fence. When finished we had a twenty by twenty foot log fence with three sides built against the cinderblock shop. We’d also run lots of water...
Monday, May 8, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 107th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 107th Installment
Russ had closed the gate, and I had rushed up to help get the chain looped around the pole and the clamp hooked. The bull then ran around and around the perimeter fence burning up excess anger. My heart was still pounding as we finished the milking and the other chores. When we headed to the house, we...
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 106th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 106th Installment
milk the cows, as I rounded the corner of the barn, “Yowzer!” I screamed. I had come face to face with the evil monster Holstein bull. This animal was huge and was the bane of anyone who had to deal with this biological mutation. When a farmer wanted good milk production from Holstein cows, he chose the biggest...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 105th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 105th Installment
getting the feel of it. Then it was my turn, and I clambered into the small canoe shaped body of the snow plane. The two rear skis were about eight feet apart, and I could steer the front ski with a steering wheel. The only other instruments were the on/off switch and the throttle lever. I hooked my...
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 104th Installment
Drive - A Memoir 104th Installment
I started walking into the breeze again because I believed in that choice of direction. Then I saw it: a tiny spot of light in the graying horizon. The white–out was turning into night, and I realized the light was not the bright light you go into when you die, but the yard light of the Taylor Ranch....
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 103rd Installment
Drive - A Memoir 103rd Installment
A white out! The clouds were horizon to horizon pure even white and low maybe only several feet above us. The white in the sky blended right into the white snow–covered ground. With the frost covering all the brush, even the brush was white. This was the most insane thing I have ever experienced, and I was scared....
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 102nd Installment
Drive - A Memoir 102nd Installment
we told and retold the story, and ever since then, the little house has been known as the ‘haunted shack.’ Chapter 28 Last year on a cold wintry day we drove up to Taylor’s place, a 22,000 acre operation between Hamer and St. Anthony, an area almost entirely flat with short grass and brush. Deer wintered here which...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Drive - A Memoir 101st Installment
Drive - A Memoir 101st Installment
to build than see it now with only our imaginations to fill in what had happened to the visitor. We sat on the floor in a corner of the room to discuss what we thought had happened and to decide if we were going to reset the traps again. After some conversation about ways to scare people and...