I joke about dinosaurs, Great White Sharks, the Carolina Lizard Man, and other strange things in the Jonesville Reservoir (aka The Jonesville Town Pond—a forty-acre ….
Category: Pineapple Hill
Cricket has come to the Upstate. How cool. However, where it’s played is not close to Pineapple Hill. Bummer. It’s a fun-to-watch bat and ball ….
I found this mermaid painting on a window screen on sale so brought her home but she’s banned by Crystal (Marianne in Blue Rubber Pool). ….
The orange deer skull marks the trail to Pineapple Hill’s pistol range—a ravine near a natural spring where, legend has it, Native Americans stopped while ….
…I went for a ride at 8 am. Climbed a hill. Coasted down. Escaped a dog. Mooed at a cow. Missed a squirrel. Dodged the ….
This cat showed up as the Pineapple Hill “beach house in a cow pasture” was being built. My father-in-law, Mr. R, rode over on his ….
I’ve had several incredibly large visions along the lines of environmental concept artist Christo. One was to create a beach house in a cow pasture. ….
So I said to the cow (bull…whatever), give me a break. I can’t out run you. I’ve had an acetabular fracture. My femur was shoved ….
Being new to farming, I placed Pineapple Hill’s little vineyard too close to a huge oak tree that sucks up water the grapes need. No ….
Teachable moments? No, more like teachable YEARS. There’s so much I didn’t know about living in the rural South. For instance, water goes off when ….
The nearest Krispy Kreme—a Southern delicacy that my mom truly loved—is more than twenty miles from Pineapple Hill. I don’t get there often but when ….
Here’s another section of books at Pineapple Hill’s third floor office/library. They bring me comfort. They make an uncertain world seem less chaotic. Books are ….