This photo was created by my daughter Shelley (Shel), who as you can see is a very creative photographer. Yes, she is a professional and I am very proud of her and the work she does. So the photograph is me but it isn’t about me. Shel shot at least 50 photos I assume. Some were kind of silly, some intense, and some are what I would call studio normal. This is not in a photo studio,...
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Little Red Schoolhouse
There was an interesting call at the house last night. Gloria took the call and it had me seriously wondering what was going on. A fellow had called saying he bought a “little red school house” painting on EBay created by Dan Kautz. He was probing Gloria for information about the artist which got me seriously concerned. Unfortunately (maybe fortunately) such activity is highly suspicious to me and I refused to talk to him without further...
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My wife is a devoted quilter. She navigates the state of Texas and the entire country by where the quilt shops are located. She also knows what fabric is in stock in every one of them. Half the upstairs is her quilting cave I call Grandma’s Attic. Sewing machines and long arm quilters, she has it all. Well, she didn’t have a T-Shirt that proclaimed her overpowering passion to stitch tiny bits of cloth into...
Continue reading...Except for viewing my family activities I have become extremely annoyed with the management and total control Facebook has over many people’s lives. For me it has become the false profit of Satan and destroying cultural values and the right (or is it now become a privilege) of personal privacy. Yeah, I am an old fogey and damn well proud of it. I shared as little personal information as possible in Facebook “registration”. I even...
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