The zoo has expanded. After five years of indecisiveness, Jennie finally bought a horse. He’s a Polish Arab, sweet tempered and not all that bad for a horse. Officially, he is Fire Summer Rain, but I call him either Alpo or Krokette (which my Dutch friend Maike assures me is commonly made with horse meat). […]
Sunshine kitty didn’t want to be boxed in, so I erased most of her outer lines and tossed her in darkness. Stupid cat. So, which is better, the first version or this version? Or should I burn my Wacom tablet and uninstall Gimp, ’cause there’s no chance in hell of finding an artistic bone in […]
Busy, busy, busy. Cold, cold, cold. I thought we hit the forties today, but it looks like we topped out in the thirties. No matter, as I haven’t been outside in a while. Work has kept me busy, although I did spend a few minutes last night fantasizing about summer and drawing sunshine kitty. Related […]
At age seven, I had a crush on Linda Ronstadt. Don’t laugh, dammit! She was hot in 1975. At age seven, my son has a crush on Alexis, his snuggle-cuddle-wuvybear, or whatever the phrase is kids use these days. I would prefer if he were less realistic, like me. I am pretty sure the odds […]
My son has joined a gang. My son, at seven years of age, has joined the Mousies. They got caught today defacing school property and having a Sharpie fight with their rival gang, the Kitties. At three members each, it may be a stretch to call them gangs, but still, you have to nip this […]
The wife’s out of town, so I took the kids to a performance of Madame Butterfly at a local college yesterday. If you’re not in church on a Sunday, you might as well get some culture, right? This was our first trip to the opera, so we really did not know what to expect. Apparently, […]
It’s good to have goals. My daughter plans on being a veterinarian (as long as she never has to put an animal down) and a horse trainer. Oh, and a teacher, a horseback riding instructor and occasionally the President of the United States. My son is more focused: He wants to be a veterinarian and […]
I’ve always known I was a lefty (the permanent ink smudges on my left ring finger are a dead giveaway). I did not know it was this bad, however . . . According to the guys over at Political Compass, I might as well join a commune. To give it perspective, that’s more commie-hippie than […]
Good morning. Nope, nothing new here, other than rain, a big hole in my wall that I still need to fix and a cord of wood still left to split and stack, preferably somewhere dry. What we thought was smoke from the fires this weekend turned out to just be dust blowing up from the […]
It’s only been three months (four?) since I had a filling replaced with what the dentist called an overlay and the nightmare began. First, they made the overlay too tall, so I was constantly exerting pressure on a corner of the tooth. Then they ground it down and cracked it, so that anything I ate […]
