After admiring the greening grass and the opening tulips in my front yard today, another sure sign of warm weather's hand closing around this place showed itself ( Read more... )

Well, no.  Not really ( Read more... )

A few weeks back I ran out of seasoned salt.  It had taken me years to go through the bottle of Lawry's as the only use I had for it was on the occasional steak -- put some of that on one side, and some garlic salt on the other.  The results were decent, but still required some Stubb's barbecue sauce to get a bold flavor that I enjoy.

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Any time I've been out of the house for at least an hour, upon my return Van expects attentions.  Namely, the first thing --according to him -- that I must do when I get home is to lay down on my back upon my bed.  Van will immediately leap onto my chest and present himself for proper petting.  Sometimes he will remain standing, turning ( Read more... )

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I have begun to make use of my Flickr account, which for the moment includes only an album of photos from my recent jaunt to Minnesota, placed chronologically with captions describing the proceedings.  I intend to add more photos and groups in the near future.  For your perusing pleasure I recommend that you "view as slideshow".


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I think I saw that drawing on FurAffinity.

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For ten years I've been looking for this:

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I just returned from a six-day road trip that took me as far north as the city of Virginia, Minnesota.  There are many photos to process and perhaps a few stories to tell, but for now I'll give you a sample of the reasons I went there.  Imagine this video with snow covering the ground and the thermometer reading +5F:

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With all of the predictions and warnings for 150+mph winds racing over the tops of the western mountains, how could a storm dragon resist slipping out  there for a visit?

Someone documented the visit in an image.