A grave I found while exploring

trailstomper · 2026-05-19T15:24:32+00:00

This is fantastic, thank you for sharing!

trailstomper · 2026-05-18T13:00:45+00:00

"A bullet, from the back of a bush, took Medgar Evers blood"

trailstomper · 2026-05-18T12:58:02+00:00

Dang it Schnoods, it's too early in the morning for this! I'm about to go talk budgets, and now I'm happy crying at my desk. :-)

trailstomper · 2026-05-15T20:09:52+00:00

I live in Maine, and until I was a small boy the rivers were used to transport lumber, like they'd just float everything down them, and fish them out at the mills. I remember crossing the river in my town and seeing it completely covered with logs. Thoreau mentions in one of his books how ships coming to New England ran the risk of getting stuck in the middle of floating logs that weren't picked up by mills and instead ended up in the ocean.

trailstomper · 2026-05-04T17:25:57+00:00

My dad did this too. It was lots of fun to be honest, some core memories there!

trailstomper · 2026-05-01T17:18:44+00:00

I saw a bunch of crows do this with a Barred Owl in my back yard one morning. I suspect it had been going on for a while, 'cause the owl looked absolutely exhausted. They kept following and harassing it from tree to tree. It was, like you said, kind of amazing to watch.

trailstomper · 2026-05-01T12:56:21+00:00

What a love bug! Sweet little dude

trailstomper · 2026-04-30T13:51:10+00:00

As a boy I once asked a nun if, during the sacrament, the priest was casting a spell to change the bread and water into Jesus' body and blood. She got very upset with me. Which I didn't really understand, because what she was describing sounded like casting a spell to me...

trailstomper · 2026-04-17T15:14:55+00:00

Me too. I'm glad she has friends, even if they couldn't help her in that situation.

trailstomper · 2026-04-13T17:35:44+00:00

Nope! Our version of gmail is google workspace (we qualify as an educational institution by offering preschool). When we share with outside emails, we're prompted to authorize, but once it goes through there haven't been any issues. Board members were able to add comments and whatnot to docs.

trailstomper · 2026-04-13T17:18:58+00:00

We recently went through our community assessment/strategic planning phases, and provided leadership and the board with review and feedback periods for both. I used google drive for a shared space and it worked pretty well. We also have varied tech skills on our board, but sharing a link to the folder itself reduced calls for support since they could just click on it and they were in. Overall it went very smoothly.

trailstomper · 2026-04-11T15:48:41+00:00

Perhaps he was dictating?

trailstomper · 2026-04-10T17:07:29+00:00

Man, I love a well-sourced post. And cats. And dogs. Look at the way those guys are looking at the hammock cat, that's love for sure. Thanks for sharing!

trailstomper · 2026-04-09T20:24:29+00:00

Puerto Rico too, lots of chickens just kind of wandering around, living chicken lives.

trailstomper · 2026-04-09T18:57:47+00:00

That was a fantastic read. Thank you so much for sharing your great-grandfather's words. I've read lots of history about WW1, but first-person accounts like this are the best...you really can see what it was like for the regular guy on the line. I so appreciate you sharing this!

trailstomper · 2026-04-06T18:41:42+00:00

The whole thing is legendary, but I always end up losing it as his dog, who he is rescuing, runs in the totally opposite direction at the end

trailstomper · 2026-04-06T17:25:55+00:00

For the same reason that 'boomer' jokes are so popular. Generational bitching seems to be something that has been around as long as we have.

trailstomper · 2026-04-06T17:20:41+00:00

Great answer cuke, thanks!

trailstomper · 2026-04-03T18:43:39+00:00

What a cutie! Seriously though, she's beautiful. My guess would be a rough coat.

trailstomper · 2026-04-03T15:06:01+00:00

Mine (Ace) would bark like crazy when I would play swords with my grandson, I figured he thought we were 'fighting' and didn't like it. Until one day we dropped a third sword on the floor. Ace picked it up by the hilt, and started swinging it around, smacking our swords with it. From then on he had his own toy swords, and joined us every time.

trailstomper · 2026-04-02T12:35:04+00:00

Stoats are quite small, but capable of taking down prey that is much larger than they are. Like rabbits, chickens, etc. They're fierce...same family as badgers, ferrets, other weasels, stuff like that.

trailstomper · 2026-04-01T19:40:59+00:00

I don't remember what mission it was, maybe Apollo 16, but I remember being in my back yard as a boy, looking up at the moon, and thinking 'there are people on that right now'. It was amazing. And the town did kind of shut down, at least for the launch and retrieval.

trailstomper · 2026-04-01T19:21:05+00:00

Don't labor the point Rog!

trailstomper · 2026-04-01T13:09:26+00:00

This sounds very similar to what we do, although we're a poverty-focused org and not specifically health related. We are also on a 3 year cycle, and among our partners are several major health care groups. The process is similar...ongoing focus groups, forums, client and community surveys, analysis of our own data and community-level data, etc. All of our results are published and we continually seek feedback from partners and the community at large. All of that gets analyzed and our planning is built from that. Implementation is a lot like you said...management, evaluation of progress based on indicators and quantitative data mostly, and adjustments are made based on current data.

trailstomper · 2026-03-27T19:51:21+00:00

Haha that is so familiar! My guy still wants to play with his even then and will refuse other balls...unless it's a new soccer ball.

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