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Craving

Posted: August 17, 2011 by Jack in Uncategorized

I’d kill a man for a nice piece of salmon right now.

The Man Called West

Posted: August 16, 2011 by Jack in Uncategorized

About nine miles outside of Fort Hope, between a cemetery and Wills Pond, lives a man called West.  He refused the relocation, preferring instead to live a hermetic lifestyle miles away from what passes for civilization these days.  The Ensuring America’s Future Act, which if I remember correctly passed the Senate with a unanimous 13-0 [...]

Cans and Pills

Posted: August 12, 2011 by Jack in Uncategorized

My little victory garden has yielded a nice bounty.  Sugar snap peas and tomatoes are ready now, and the blueberry bushes aren’t yet picked clean.  I took a bunch of the tomatoes over to a friend of mine to have then canned.  Canning is going in in earnest now.  We’ll get some fall crops and [...]

The Weekend

Posted: August 8, 2011 by Jack in Uncategorized

There are things I miss about the weekend.  Back before everything went to shit, I’d look forward to every Friday afternoon, when we’d finish for the week, head off to get a drink and something to eat, and then go home to enjoy the weekend.  New movies came out on Fridays.  As I grew older, [...]

Sherwood Caravan

Posted: July 25, 2011 by Jack in Uncategorized

The monthly caravan arrived from Sherwood Forest this weekend with a flatbed full of lumber, several hundred pounds of venison, and a ton of blueberries.  Going the other way: salt, gasoline, glass panels, a refrigeration unit, and a big turbine for Niagara Station.  It was hotter than hell this weekend but at least we had [...]

One Year

Posted: July 20, 2011 by Jack in Uncategorized

It’s been one year since I moved to Fort Hope.  Stuffed everything worth taking into a truck and headed East, towards the ocean and the promise of a new beginning.  Brad Morse followed me in his truck.  Later on we found out that Janet Calcaterra was from town, too.  That made three, and in a [...]