Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

can almost hear a koto playing in the background....

  And Not a Drop To Drink I've had problems with my water supply over the past year, and it's gotten me a little on edge. I've run out on a couple of occasions. Once while I was washing the supper dishes, just before turning in for the night. I turned on the tap to rinse out a soapy skillet - and on...

thanks, John - glad to see you back, glad you liked the story. I like it too - Neil & Tom's backstory is sort of an idealization of my own, though we weren't designing lasers, just evaluating commercially available ones for suitability as components of our own products.

heyyy, long time! Thanks for the Comment. Yeah, it's beautiful out here, but it's been brutally cold. At least it seems to be moderating - it's gotten up above freezing a couple days in a row now. Still got March to get through, but we'll get there. I've just completed another entry for "Stories & E...

friends like that are rare
losing them is like losing a piece of yourself
I wish there were something I could say
I hope the love you shared will help you through this
peace

macaws dancing to reggae donkeys opening windows and doors dogs jumping into piles of leaves babies giggling hysterically... you needn't remind me that the filth is still out there - doesn't mean I have to wallow in it 24/7... doesn't mean that beauty & whimsy are forbidden topics... absolutely no a...

I would guess that their toadies those almost as filthy rich the ones aspiring to it but not there yet might complain that we, the unwashed, the unworthy, somehow stand in their way and the gilded ones - addicted to the adulation of their worshipers (or perhaps just because they can) take pleasure i...

I remember him as a staple at Arcanum as well as here. His writing always seemed to fly a little over my literalist head - but he seemed a generous soul, and was kind to me. A part of the landscape worn away by time.....

Thanks, those game trails are everywhere, esp. around the waterways. Haven't seen any moose tracks yet, but before the snow fell I was finding their droppings out in the woods. The last 10 yrs or so we've gotten more "wintry mix" than snow - the worst of the worst, sleet, freezing rain, ice. Last wi...

huh - looks like me every morning after my 1st few coffees......

...I had a huge tree fall on my house several years ago. It was scary as hell. It went straight through the roof and dining room ceiling. It destroyed my back deck. Maybe I’ll post some photos of it one day. Thank goodness it didn’t damage the structural integrity of the house and I had insurance. ...

last time I checked (and that was a while ago) the going rate around here was about $1000 per tree. I'd made a pact instead with a logger who agreed to take down a handful of specific trees in exchange for whatever saleable timber he could harvest from my land. It worked out pretty well, but he's no...

yeah, I've had to take down a few over the years, and I could stand to take down a few more, especially along the power feed from the road. Their shade is nice in the summer - the view looking up the driveway is to the south - but gets pretty alarming during ice storms.

. .                          View from my kitchen window . 01KitchenView.jpg . . .                          View from my mailbox . 02Homestead.jpg . . .                         View of my road . 03SHRoad.jpg . . .                         Another view of my road . 04SHRoad.jpg . . .                  ...

It's only gotten to within earshot of 30 up here, but even that feels balmy compared to what we've been getting. I went out for a few miles yesterday and actually started overheating - had to remove my hat & open my coat a bit. Even then, it was SO nice just to be outside. How many YT videos about m...