Holiday Yikes! A Goober Giveaway

Posse!  I’m … a goober. So here I am, sitting in the garden…admiring my new fountain…thinking’oooh!  I’ll tell Posse all about it’….um….now?  Because Memorial Day is a MONDAY holiday.  And I am a goober. So.  No post of any real… Continue Reading

How I Met Your Uncle Karl

Funny how things come about on this blog.  Today we’re going to discuss Your Uncle Karl – and how I met him.  This is happening because of the Comfort Zone posts of the past few days, at least tangentially.  Also… Continue Reading

Some Changes

Posse.  Let’s talk about Some Changes.  What is it about human nature that causes us to be more interested in negative changes than positive (or neutral)?  We (the ubiquitous ‘we’) love to know about divorces/fights/arrests/dramadamaDramaLlamaMama Drama/etc… but rarely (okay EVER)… Continue Reading

Fruit Leathers

Posse!… it’s January in the Midwest.  Leather Weather, right?  Welll..Not So Fast.  Here’s the thing: in the deep depths of Winter the ‘typical’ leathers, those heavy hitters like the Cuir de Russies (alladem) Mme. Laurent’s Treizieme Heures (yikes!!!) and the brutal,… Continue Reading

A Glancing Light

It’s August…and the light is shifting, turning to a ‘glancing light’… light is hitting surfaces at acute angles and shadows are sharper.  It’s this, even more than temperature, that lets me know Autumn is just around the corner. A few… Continue Reading