Howdy folks:
Welcome to Michael Perry’s Voice Mail, episode 258. This one’s available to free and paid subscribers alike. Click the player above to listen.
In this episode I talk about a brief and impromptu neighborhood get-together, then head off in a slightly different direction than usual and request your input. I also reveal the phrase I used last week to describe why I’ll never be a fashionista and why there will always be limits to my refinement.
In random news, a few years ago we gave the chicken coop from Coop to the neighbors. They have since moved and the new neighbors have offered to let us have it back. So I’m gonna head down there and see if it’s still in any shape to be moved. This is how we moved it when it was brand new:
From Coop:
The tractor moves across the yard with the coop in tow. In a rare moment of foresight, we removed the windows so they wouldn’t bust in transit, and Buffalo is riding crouched in the window waving at the kids like an underweight troll, his head of curls and big black beard flopping in the wind. For my part, I keep ’er steady with the tractor, one arm raised and pointing to the distance as if I am Hannibal headed for the Alps.
As ever, I remain grateful for your time and attention.
Thank you.
Mike
P.S. Scroll down for MARGINALIA section.
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MARGINALIA
(Annotations from books Mike is reading, or annotations related to the episode)
Had some airplane time recently, and began re-reading Eric Linklater’s Magnus Merriman on my Kindle.
Looking at what I highlighted in the Introduction, I chuckle how some of it winds up being relevant to today’s Voice Mail episode:
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In the department of additional full disclosure, the photo at the very top of this episode was taken back in June of 2023. The sun was filtering through Canadian wildfire smoke. Two days after I took it, I took another, in New York City.
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