It happened two years ago this month in August, 2016, though I can't really tell you the exact day. It was closer to the end of the month. Having moved there, to Laurel Park, NC, in an earlier August, that of the year 2004, we absolutely loved living in the mountains of western North Carolina. And why not? Joan and I both attended Hendersonville High School in the late 1960's where she was native born and where we started dating shortly after her graduation. Most of you are

Like so many times before, the sky above is a shade of blue with fat, fluffy clouds levitating above my chair, bringing to memory the exact