Some art, maybe a little gardening, a few other bits.

In 2008, I found 343 coins, plus a few Hot Wheels cars and a few other relics, old and new, of little interest to anyone else. I don't t...

Here's the 6 x 9" linocut I've been working on. I don't think it's too bad for being the first one I've done since ...

I was just reading The Order of the Stick (at http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0623.html ) when Jill walked through the room. She slowed d...

A little bit fun...   http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/131-us-states-renamed-for-countries-with-similar-gdps/  

Last night I had a tense dream that the city was taken over by the walking dead and I was hiding in subterranean tunnels and sewers.   ...

Last night I retrieved a cardboard box from the garage and started dismantling my metal detector to ship it back to the manufacturer. After ...

Last night I pulled a print from the linoleum block I'm carving. It was just a test. I have a lot of cutting yet to do on the linoleum b...

My detector is beeping erratically and annoyingly, even when pointed at the sky. It is going back to the manufacturer. Yay, warranty!   ...

Last night I started cutting on my first linoleum block print since high school art class. I really don't have any good idea how it will...

A while back I noticed that CNN was marketing T-shirts featuring its daily (and hourly) headlines.   It's not a bad concept, really. It ...

This was taken by the girls' Aunt Pam at her apartment. I think it was during September's prolonged power outage. It has multiple la...

This drawing is 6 x 9 inches. I think I like the other drawing better because of interesting shadows and the asymmetry, but this one is much...

This is 12 x 7 inches on paper, using my homemade walnut ink with a brush and dip pen. I'm quite happy with it, even though there is a v...

For those who have not yet heard the story, I had this conversation yesterday – Jill's birthday:   Jill: "How many days until C...

I can't imagine this happening in this country; definitely not in this city. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081222/od_afp/finlandcri...

I think I just ate some Christmas candy, although it might have been some sort of little decorative guest soap. Speaking of blurred bor...

After reading my Dad's comment on a post below, and doing a little internet research, I've decided that he is probably right--I thin...

On the way home I stopped at the Garnettsville Cemetery, close to the park. Garnettsville was a town that existed on the area that would lat...

I drove down to the boat ramp and walked out to the spot from which I had painted three of my best paintings, all the same view. The water w...