Spring at TCPC – Apr 2018
Not a big story here, just a few pictures from TCPC on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Spring has sprung! Or maybe not so much. On Monday (happy belated Patriots Day […]
Category Archives: 2018
Easter Ham – Apr 2018
Plan B. My original plan (Plan A) after this past weekend was to report back to you my detailed and hugely successful and tasty recipe for smoking a ham. Not […]
Blog 5 Years Old! – Mar 2018
Happy birthday to this blog! Yes indeed, it has been 5 years! Technically I started this blog on Tumblr and then moved to its current WordPress platform, but it is […]
Smokin!!!!! – Mar 2018
It didn’t take much more than a trip to Austin, TX to inspire me to recommit to the fine art of smoking – meat, that is. While I have greatly […]
Power Lines – Mar 2018
Some of my readers have been asking me, “Brad, when are you going to do a post on high tension electrical power lines?” Well, your wait is over! When I […]
Austin – Mar 2018
If our stay in Palm Springs was sublime, then our very short stay in Austin was ridiculous. We LOVE Austin, although this time around we did not get to stay […]
Palm Springs – Mar 2018
We did two things in February we have never done before: 1) stay in one place for more than two weeks, and 2) stay at an RV resort. OK, technically […]
Palm Springs Trailer Trash – Feb 2018
One of the big deals in Palm Springs during February is Modernism Week, which is all about mid-century modern architecture and design, which I would highly recommend attending (see my […]
Steamboat – Feb 2018
Self-awareness, and its sinister sister self-esteem, had no place on the ski slopes for me this past weekend. I flew into Steamboat Springs, CO for a long weekend skiing tryst […]
Polo Anyone? – Feb 2018
Marco! Thankfully Karen does not openly voice all her thoughts, but you know this is what she wanted to call out at our first polo event. And people call me […]
Deep Skies – Feb 2018
“Picture yourself in a boat on a river, With tangerine trees and marmalade skies. Someone calls you, you answer quite slowly, A girl with kaleidoscope eyes….” On our journey west, […]
Admissions from a Sales Guy – Feb 2018
I never should have been in sales. I didn’t fit the persona. I don’t have a competitive bone in my body; I am an introvert; and I like dogs more […]
Ivy Green – Jan 2018
You may or may not recognize the name Ivy Green, but you likely know something about Helen Keller. While in Muscle Shoals, or more technically, Tuscumbia, AL, I visited the birthplace […]
Muscle Shoals – Jan 2018
Music meccas… New York, LA, Boston, Nashville, Memphis, Muscle Shoals… Wait, what? Do the names Paul Simon, Aretha Franklin, Percy Sledge, the Black Keys, Etta James, Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, […]
Going the Distance – Jan 2018
I am going to tell you a story. Mind you, this is really not my story to tell, but I will share it nonetheless. Many of my stories are vicarious […]