Travels of a Rambling Van

This is how we ended 2018 here on the property. (Central Texas) What a glorious way to usher out one year and get set for the next...

Worst place ever!! A bit of a leak in a steel barn with a concrete floor is nothing to get too excited about, unless that leak happens t...

Yesterday I saw someone bemoaning the Winter Solstice as a day of peak SADness (Seasonal Affective Disorder) to be tolerated, but not a day...

My Delorme Topo, the mapping system I use on my laptop, has a choice of 7 different coordinate mapping formats. Admittedly, more than hal...

You'd never know it based on all the hype, but I suspect I'm far from the only one that's become jaded by Christmas. It seems...

I  (- you know - the first born - clearly her favorite -) called my mommy the other day,        the woman that birthed me, fed me...

Once in a while, while doing my laps on the back of the property, I run into a snake. The vast majority of the time it's a Texas Rat...