Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
13 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
I picked up this small bouquet for my wife almost a week ago for no particular reason. I saw them in the grocery store and thought she might like them. I placed them in a vase on our table. The cat immediately jumped on the table and started stalki...
12 Jan 2020 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
As related by my late uncle, Ed Willis, coon hunter extraordinaire. Dickie Hilton and I were hunting one night when something ran across the road in front of us. We tried to catch it but it was too quick. We let our dogs run while we were standing...
4 Jan 2020 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
Part 3 here: While Josh's friends were having success in their newly enhanced lives, this wasn't true for everyone. There were no news stories of catastrophic failures. There were no PSAs. There were only stories. There was a story of a prominent p...
3 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Part 2 here: By the end of the first quarter of 2020, cell service providers were pushing their new 5G devices. If a you lived in a densely populated area, the devices worked wonderfully. Web pages displayed almost immediately, mapping applications...
30 Dec 2019 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
Part 1 here: Josh had always been something of a gray man. He didn't intentionally start out that way. It was merely a quirk of his personality. He was the guy just in the shadows. Attention was somewhat embarrassing to him and he deflected it whenev...
28 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Life had been relatively simple until recently for Josh. He was an electrician in a small company on the outskirts of urban sprawl. He worked five days a week because that was all he wanted. There were always opportunities to pick up a little side-wo...
25 Dec 2019 2 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
This is a story related by my late uncle Ed Willis. One afternoon after school I went by Mr. Lit Copeland's house. Mr. Lit was Bo, Jim and Joel's daddy, Jimmy's granddaddy and Bill Sandifer's uncle. Mr. Lit was a retired man and an old fox hunter. He...
25 Dec 2019 1 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
This is the view from the back deck of a house on which I've been working. The house isn't finished yet so I don't know it's worth. I do know, however, that they paid $250k for this view.
16 Dec 2019 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
I live in a small town in the mid-west (US) of less than 3,500 people. Life here is grand except for the fact that the municipality has no snow removal equipment. We are at the crossroads of two state highways, so those are always clear. The hospital...
14 Dec 2019 1 minute read 3 comments uthus2000
We do not have cable nor do we watch broadcast television. We stream everything we watch: documentaries, our favorite YouTubers, Turner Classic Movies... Recently, my wife started streaming a show that she'd seen but I never have - Eureka. Eureka ran...
