2026-06-13

I have been stepping over the bad porch step for weeks. Today I stopped pretending it would get better on its own.

• Desmond / Porch Restoration

  • He came over to look at the rotted step on my porch and ended up redoing the measurements twice with a tape he keeps in his back pocket.
  • He would not take anything for it. I left a jar of the jam on his step and felt I had not repaid it.

• Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World

  • On while I measured the porch supports: how Samuel Clemens took “Mark Twain” from the leadsman’s call on the riverboats, two fathoms, safe water.
  • A whole pen name out of a man sounding the depth before the boat moved on. It suited a day of measuring before buying.