During the winter, I store four of these chair pads wrapped individually in black plastic garbage bags up in my attic. I took them out a couple months ago, but I guess I didn’t look them over very carefully.
Megan noticed this half nest the other day, it looks abandoned and old. I wonder how the wasps got into closed the plastic bag?
This “painting” was displayed in the same room as Megan’s BFA show at her school. I initially thought it was a sculpture, but Megan informed me that it was the BFA of a painting major, therefore it is a painting. Do you see the little box like opening? Inside is a tape recording that loops over and over. It is of air raid sirens and an angry mom, calling her son Anthony to “Get on over here!!!”
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Hi! Elise’s son Ben here to shamelessly plug the new webcomic my sister Megan and I are working on:
“Cuddles the Friendly Spore is a comic about… uh… well we’re not sure, but it has a happy mushroom in it.” — Megan
Today’s post celebrates the new Star Trek movie. I’ve been a Trek fan (read: huge nerd) since I was a kid, so it seems appropriate to celebrate it on the release date of the new movie. Which is today.
Just click on Cuddles to be taken to his site!
I was taking pictures of my buckeye tree, happened to look straight up and there he was. I don’t think he even knew I was there. Zoom lenses are a wonderful thing.
This is a picture of my perennial chives plant. If I decide to make baked potatoes with sour cream and chives for dinner tonight, I think I should leave out the lady bug flavoring.
This is a picture form the archives. I wonder just what was Rikki looking for.
Ben and I went for a walk in the park and came across this tree. It really reminded me of one of those scary apple trees from the Wizard of Oz, that threw its apples at Dorothy.
Here’s the comparison.
Here is a look at its gnarled trunk.
T his is a close up of the tree bark.
Yesterday was my son Ben’s 24th birthday. But he’s not the only one of my children with an early April Birthday. My Daughter Megan will be 22 on April 7th. This Picture of Ben and I was taken on april 6th, 1987.
I had slept over my parent’s house because Chris was playing soccer, and I didn’t want to be alone that night. The next morning, I sat at my mom’s kitchen table and read my horoscope. That is something I almost never do. Megan was born at 7:11 that evening. Both of these items were copied from Megan’s baby album.
Kitty bling: could it be the newest fashion fad?
There are just so many exciting uses for milk jug rings!!!
When I was a teenager, I went to a summer art show with my parents, and came across this limited print of a pen and ink drawing of a very messy room. Imagine my surprise and delight, when my parents bought this print, which is poster sized, and displayed it in our family room. My mom kept an extremely clean house, so it was not indicative of our ability to have an ordered home, (no underwear or dirty ashtrays on the floor) but there were similarities. Do you see those four harness table looms in the background? I had one of those, and lots of spools of yarn to go with it.
I‘ve up loaded this a second time because although this view of this picture is not as good as the first, you can click on this one for a much larger view.
∗ This picture now hangs in my niece Beth’s home. I gave it to her as a present. I did make a copy of it, which resides at my sister’s house. As I have no wall that’s quite right to hang it.