Pocahontas County Fare

I made three trips in three days to the big-box home improvement store in Lewisburg this week. I don't usually go to Lewisburg more tha...

I've painted the drywall with primer, and we've installed the ceramic tiles we'll use as a "hearth" for the wood stov...

The drywall is up now, and last week I painted it with primer. It has become hard to photograph progress now that all the walls are up and ...

A few weeks ago, Larry Ayers, of "Riverside Rambles" posted a link to Norman Blake's version of "Done Gone" . I sta...

I don't use Microsoft products myself, but I recently put together some training sessions on Excel spreadsheets. Here's the list of ...

Like other cats, Princess enjoys a new cardboard box. However, this puny box makes her look like another candidate for the Washington-based...

The house siding has been complete for some time, but rain and other projects have kept us from staining the exterior. Inside, drywall is g...

It's beginning to look like our part of West Virginia is a required stop on Washington D.C.-based journalism's "2009 Poverty Ro...

We've been seeing more snakes here this spring than usual. This fellow was having some trouble avoiding cars out at the hard road, so w...

Hillsboro, my mailing address, got a brief feature last month in The Atlantic Magazine online: Taking Comfort in Small Joys . The series, c...

I've been teaching bunches of classes, but there's been unblogged house progress. Here you can see siding, and the setting of the p...

Here's my copy of Little Dorrit , part of The Complete Works of Charles Dickens, which I bought for a dollar at an auction in Connecti...

I've been spending more time with Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County by William T. Price (1901) over at Pocahontas County History...

The new house will require a new power line and pole, and last week the electric company's tree workers came to clear the path. Unfortu...

After all that rain, there was finally some house progress last week!

I'm still pecking away at Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, making a search-able, sort-able version on Pocahontas County Histor...

I've finished grading chemistry exams and otherwise preparing for the classes I'm teaching tonight in Beckley, and, on an apparentl...

The last few days, I've been converting an OCR'ed text of William Price's Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County into sensib...

The last few weeks I've been spending a lot of time with Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County by William T. Price (1901), which is...

I've never been great at shifting gears mentally, so my current work configuration offers me a real challenge. I'm teaching courses...