He sent his father instructions about planking the barn, caring for the stock, burning brush and tending peach trees.
Across Kraft's social media platforms today, Frankie and Dottie responded mildly to people tweeting at them, and posted video in which they learned about planking.
Indeed I can, and after spending one day fending off jokes about my planks I spend the next five trying to hang on to a K2 Eco Pop board.
"A friend of mine took me to a mill in Western Massachusetts in the summer of 2007," Middlebrook explains to The Creators Project, "it was at the mill that I got inspired and started thinking about leaning planks of wood that could function as sculpture and painting".
About 20 planks will be needed later.
Usually this is done with two scaffolds and an X-brace and about three planks.
So far this year, both President Obama and Mitt Romney seem more passionate about denying the other side victory than about any plank in their own agendas.
On the campaign trail, Prentice at one point appeared to blame the electorate for his party's fiscal mistakes, telling Albertans to "look in the mirror" if they wanted an explanation for the deficit.* He also reversed himself, early on, about a plank of the budget that seemed to punish charities.
If the economy is about to walk the plank and sink in the roiling waters, analysis is irrelevant, even counterproductive.
