I’m sitting here in my living room watching the NCAA tournament in glorious 1080i HD. I realized I was hearing something that I hadn’t heard in quite a while. One of the sounds of spring and summer where I live on Friday nights is the roar of dirt-track sprint cars coming from Williams Grove Speedway just a couple of miles away.

The sound isn’t too bad if you have the windows closed, which is the case for us most of the summer as I try to chill the house to the low 60s with the central AC system we had put into the house as soon as we moved in. I can’t imagine how loud it is at the track. Deafness must be a common problem amongst the simple back-country folk that make up the majority of the audience.

This morning I noticed a yellow goldfinch for the first time this spring. They’ve been gray and dull for the winter instead of looking like this…

Maybe you’ve noticed under the calendar the new search box. Now you can search the contents of posts. w00t!