Field Note #2: Rain Time

Today is our first Rain Day since we left the farm almost two weeks ago. Which means we not only changed time zones, we are adjusting to Rain Time. A steady, hard rain lasting longer than a day completely changes how time works on the road. If it's a travel day, it can bring hidden … Continue reading Field Note #2: Rain Time

Field Note #1: Memorandum of Understanding

There’s a lot of tweaking when a band of three Inter-species  Road Ramblers load into a Tour bus for an extended adventure, especially when one of them has never toured before.   Needs are assessed and reassessed daily as personal spaces are classified, assigned and reassigned as preferences emerge. Decisions need to take into account both predictable … Continue reading Field Note #1: Memorandum of Understanding

Tales from the Compost Pile: Fear Nibbles

(Story in progress/ starts at ‘Tales from the Compost Heap: Digging In’) I’m not sure exactly when Fear got in,  but can confirm it breached my perimeter and settled at the farm some time ago. Just around the same time I found a mouse in my box of lasagna. Sometimes fear doesn’t announce its arrival with … Continue reading Tales from the Compost Pile: Fear Nibbles

Tales from the Compost Heap: Welcome to my Multiverse

I’ve heard the term Multiverse for a number of years, while wandering unaccompanied through inter-web borderlands and fringe bookstores. I had a resistance to the term, associating it with high-tech billionaires and  microchipping humans or something equally unsettling. Mostly it sounded like a word reserved for tyrants planning to take over the world  or radically … Continue reading Tales from the Compost Heap: Welcome to my Multiverse