My "kid" is pretty talented. I say "kid" because she is almost 30. She's always had a love of drawing. She tells me that she developed that while watching me go through art school when she was young. Where, until recently, I never had much interest in drawing as a medium, she embraced it as her medium of choice. I was always more interested in
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My wife was gone for a work trip last night. So I got to spend the night with a couple of extra pups in my bed. The guest dogs are allowed in the bed when she's home, but removing a human allows a few more of them room to be comfortable.
Rafa is a three-legged little poodle mix. At least they think he is a
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Book review time.
I just got done reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green. I loved it. On the surface, it is a book about a girl who finds a mystery statue on a New York street corner and shoots a quick and silly YouTube video about it. Obviously it is more than it seems and she gets quite famous because of that video.
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The lovely girl above is Sahara. She visited me yesterday. She is a vizsla and she likes to sit on my shoulder.
It started when she was a puppy. Obviously she was smaller then. Luckily as she has grown over the last couple of years, she didn't get any less graceful. I think of her as a dancer in a dog's body. She is lithe,
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That's a bit misleading, isn't it? It should really say that I was a member from 2011 through 2014, took five or so years off, and then on a whim decided to come back. It's been so long, that I feel like a new member again, needing to relearn all of the codes and customs of the site.
A lot has happened to me in...
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I'm in Bardstown, KY this week. It's the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. Tonight I was at a "Sampler." Basically a big room with a lot of distilleries who want to ply you with booze. Not a bad time at all! I spent a lot of time meeting folks and bringing them to a friend of mine who happens to have a distillery so they could try...
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In Louisville Kentucky tonight. Met some really cool people and had just a bit too much bourbon. Can't wait to see what this road trip brings tomorrow.
I'm not sure if it is because I'm cheap or because when I make something from scratch, I go all out. An example: making pizza sauce means I plant and grow a garden full of tomatoes. And as it turns out that making hard cider starts with making a cider press. Finished it tonight. I've got two bushels of apples straight from a local orchard...
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