We said goodbye to Skookie today. She will be missed. I went through my photo archive and extracted every photo that has her in it. Seemed like a good thing to do. In the mix below you will also see Cruzer (black & white), Danno (Siberian Husky), Leah (spotted black…

First, let me apologize for not publishing last week. It seems a few of you were looking for the weekly post that wasn’t here. Sorry about that. Those on the mailing list got an email saying I was taking a week off. The world didn’t cooperate, and I had little…

The title says it all. Really. What’s that? You need examples? OK. First, you might recall a couple of weeks ago when I mentioned getting rid of an art school project named Rain Man. He’s gone, and the studio is completely reorganized at this point. There’s a lot more room…

Hello everyone! I’ve been busy this past week, but not all my time was spent on projects. I even saw two different people in person, if you can believe it. Amazing, I know. …

It’s catch up time. The Chimney The last “fix” made to the chimney seems to be keeping the water out. We’ve had extensive rains since it was installed and the chimney has remained dry. I can’t explain this. I thought at least some of the other fixes would also have worked, but…

This week you get a story. And — being me — you also get the backstory for the story. Sorry. In recent history, there have been three — no, four (research always reveals something new to me) — Jumanji movies. The first is titled simply Jumanji, released in 1995, and…

Hello once again gentle reader, and welcome to my humble … uh … whatever this is. Newsletter? Blog? Column? I honestly don’t know any more. Still, it goes on, and I thank you for reading! Last week, if you will recall, I was all messed up. It had been a…

Have you ever felt like this? That’s Tinkerbelle, of course, watching out “her window” for anything interesting, but barely able to stay awake. That’s also been me this past week. I’m not entirely certain why, but it might have something to do with the fact that it has rained just…

If you’re reading this, the nukes haven’t started falling. Yet. I read that Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons came in a speech featuring Aeroflot flight attendants. Really? Yes. But regardless of where the speech was made, I think it amounts to terrorism on a global scale, and (assuming anyone…