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Sticks and stones may break my bones... so that's what I'm gonna do!
While I absolutely love chill gray autumn weather, I am very happy that it is finally sunny out again; because... this means I can go outside and break things!
This is good for several reasons; one.. because I am way behind on the splitting and stacking of wood for this winter, and splitting a log is nothing but breaking it into four pieces ( Read more... ) -
Derby Girls and Pickles and Explosives...oh my!
So, this weekend and last have been pretty mellow. Last weekend Me, Dave and Marti were intending to attend a roller derby bout with the team Joanne is on, the Mad Knockers, in Brattleboro VT. However, a few days before the bout, we were told that the bout was canceled because FEMA was using the arena as a shelter for people displaced by the ( Read more... ) -
And the first round goes to....
...the cat ( Read more... ) -
Water and fur, or one night with Irene
So, we survived Irene. Actually, as far as one night stands go, it was fairly lame... a lot of wet without much wild; we never even lost power. Our biggest concern was a tree getting blown down on our house, since we live pretty much in the woods; but that did not happen either, just a few large branches down, but nothing more ( Read more... ) -
Home is where the Art is... and the tools, and the bones, and the wood, and the cats....
It has been a somewhat idyllic 2 weeks with the bandage off and my hand mostly healed, but not yet healed enough that I can go back to work. I managed to do a lot of reading in the previous two weeks, spending most of my mornings on our front porch reading whatever book I was reading at the time and watching the hummingbirds eye me warily as they ( Read more... ) -
Lou and the giant q-tip have left the building!
Woo Hoo... I'm free ( Read more... ) -
a brief treatise on dirty birds and being useful with usefullness...
Two weekends ago, Friday night, 2 am, found me cruising down the highway at 80, windows all the way down, and the iPod all the way up blasting the sound track from Kill Bill into the night, and I'm grinning like an idiot and feeling in a very celebratory mood ( Read more... ) -
Life, death and lawn care
A week or so ago, I was driving down a road near my house on my way to see the roller derby team Joanne motherschizo is on, the Mad Knockers, in their second official bout, and the first bout in which she would be skating! The weather was cloudy, and damp enough that mist was rising from the mountains, making them appear to be smoking, and hovering just ( Read more... ) -
Hey, Terrence, could you pass me that Constipated Jaguar?
So, this last weekend I attended another Wildfire gathering. Normally I look forward to Wildfires. This one however, I was not looking forward to so much. Firstly, I had not practiced with any of my fire toys all winter, or all spring for that matter! So, yeah... lighting up in front of some of the best fire performers in the U.S when one has not ( Read more... )