Wednesday Weirdness
Welcome to Wednesday Weirdness. This may or may not be an every Wednesday post, depending on how much weirdness I run into while cruising the…
Welcome to Wednesday Weirdness. This may or may not be an every Wednesday post, depending on how much weirdness I run into while cruising the…
The Shire Horse Elephant in an Extensive Landscape, James Ward Reader Jed is bailing me out again, this time on a day where my…
Warning: Debbie Downer time to a great extent. One thing I’ve done for many years is thinking while I’m work on/at something. Whether it’s yard…
You would think that, with Christmas and all the goings on that surround the holiday, that there would be no time for reading. Wrong-a-rini. Orders…
Due to some Covid Cowards in the family, we reorganized Christmas a bit this year. To save Daughter & SIL one stop on Christmas Day,…
From our home to yours, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. By the time this posts we’ve already celebrated with our kids and…
( Via Bayou Renaissance Man) How to start taking back our country. It will not be fun (for some people) or pleasant (for some people).…
St. Martin Canal, Alfred Sisley, 1870 Impressionist landscape artist Alfred Sisley was born in France in 1839 to wealthy British parents. In 1862 he began…
Would you be uninterested if I told you my reading for the week was ham radio manuals? I figured so. Enjoy your Sunday.
Seriously, I mean that. Be of good cheer. I’m sure some of you want to know why you should be. After all, with the election…
Nerissa, John William Godward, 1906 I am a sucker for this sort of thing-I admit it. There is a terrible kink in my makeup that…
Bonus points if you get the cultural reference I’ve been going at what passes for wide open this week. 20 years ago this would have…
Sappho, Alphonse Osbert, 1888 Alphonse Osbert (1857-1939) was a French Symbolist painter. Sappho is in his signature style of “ghostlike Muses in mysterious landscapes bathed…
Just like many thousands of others at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, he just did his job. And made history in the process.
With all that’s going on in our own country, it’s easy to let it slip our minds that there are foreign enemies in addition to…
It’s been another hectic week, but I did make some time for reading. Not much, but some. April Fool by J.L. Curtis, known in blogging…
So, two things today, in order of occurance. Thing One: Today was “Haul Trash to the Dump Day”. I know, it takes so little to…
Are we victims of a false dichotomv? I’ve used the Left/Right paradigm for most of my life, but it’s starting to look like it’s mostly…
Under the Wave off Kanagowa, Katsushika Hokusai, c. 1830 Also know as The Great Wave off Kanagowa or simply The Great Wave Katsushika Hokusai,…