I’m needing to finish up some details on my projects so I can count them as completed. The last thing needed in my bathroom is the decorative “chair rail” that I originally hoped to cover in fossils. Alas and alack! my fossil stash is too poor to use the way I’d originally intended. I’d also…
Author: Carol
Barring Dragons
Things seem to be very haphazard lately. Projects can’t seem to get finished before something else rears its head and demands attention like a grumpy dragon waking from a century long nap. It’s not just me either. The guys were merrily combining grain and cutting hay, when the bridge suddenly decided it needed repair. Since…
Ah, Summertime
With tired fingers we grasp. We try to hold the warmth, the green, the lushness of the world. Hold. Hold! Onward comes the end. We see it in crisp focus in the nights that fall swifter and longer. Joy we should take in the harvest But still I say, “Hold!” Ah, Summertime… **** August 26,…
Still A Secret
A very special young couple were married a few weeks ago. I didn’t go to the wedding, and I bought them a few gifts… but… you know me… I like getting *personal*! I researched their registry… and then decided on this. The dishes are actually more brown than…
Wordless Wednesday – “Lone Stalk”
One lone stalk of Sudan grass stands in the field while the rest of the crop has been cut into windrows. **** August 24, 2010 Big Cedar Ridge August 24, 2009 Web Design and Lottery August 24, 2008 The Best
My Day
You know those days when you’ve worked all day around the house… Then you quick-like build a broccoli salad because your ambulance picnic is tonight… and then you go to the picnic… And you eat really good food, especially J’s tomatoes… and then you visit… And then you go to *another* friend’s house where you…
Thirty Years
The stale cigarette smoke hung in the air and low conversations drifted past the pool table. Brittle cracks of the balls layered themselves over the top of everything, with the accompanying laughter as the balls ricocheted off the sides and seem to purposefully avoid the pockets. The brunette took aim along her cue and slid…
Minute Movie: “Fishing AKA Bringing Home Supper”
I grew up fishing and hunting… and yesterday I declared it Fish Day. It’s been a long time, as my casting abilities attested to! But, like a bicycle, muscle memory is a wonderful thing… and soon I had a few bites! I snagged my first one, and enjoyed playing him so much, he ended up…
It’s Planted
Well, look at us go… sometimes we amaze me! It’s planted! **** August 20, 2010 Second Look at Irrigating August 20, 2009 No entry. August 20, 2008 No entry.
Expanding Family Portrait
The other day, when Brandon finished his metal Centennial sign, we decided to take some photos. Vernon’s sister and her husband were here from California… and it seemed the perfect time to snap some family photos. The difficulty lay in the long legs of the sign… Where were we going to put it, that we…
Nowood Metal Art
You know this handsome guy… He’s my youngest… He has a new endeavor. Let me give you a Big (TALL) Hint. He’s standing below his first large production, a metal frame/sign for our Wyoming Centennial Farm and Ranch award we received two years ago. (It’s really not going to be that tall, we do have…
Wordless Wednesday – “Bierstadt Clouds”
I took 18 photos of these clouds the other evening. They reminded me of Albert Bierstadt‘s paintings, dramatic, romantic, and epic! **** August 17, 2010 Boomer August 17, 2009 Photoshop Creativity August 17, 2008 No entry.