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On the road to Bengaluru
The last time I dropped this storyboard panel* into a blogpost I was about to scoot down a Southwest Airlines [...]
The Year of the Bath Towels
It's a beautiful Thanksgiving morning here in Glassland: The sky is blue blue blue, cloud wisps streaking past like they [...]
Well, hello there!
We've traveled to the coast but not as often as we'd like. Nathan romps with Grizz while I seek [...]
Artful steel, zip ties, and a bong
What can you do with a bong and two zip-ties? Repair a broken-down car in the middle of nowhere, [...]
Coastal indolence
The view from my balcony last weekend. I heard the breeze, a barred owl hooting, chickens in the distance [...]
Remergent: Art shows, resins, and blogs
The Camo Cleaver, commissioned for an outdoor chef. Resin and copper handle. Its mates will be for sale in [...]
food
Backyard farming, crawdads and a few agates
We spent the spring and early summer waiting for these beauties to ripen. When they did--BANG--they needed to be [...]
Nathan’s spaghetti sauce
Nathan's famous wild mushroom spaghetti sauce, with about two pounds of fresh-picked chanterelles, hot Italian sausage, ground beef, crisped [...]
Saturdays past and ‘shrooms
"Mmmmm," sighed The Resident Carpenter-Blacksmith in happy satisfaction, "That's the sound of mushrooms growing." The blessed rain was [...]
Sonker. Not sinker. Sonker.
Sonkers need to be served with great vanilla ice cream A tiny smidgen of silver to line the [...]