Horrible

A Saturday Stream of Consciousness Post Sabrina and Marcus think I'm a pushover. Just because I love my little sister and brother. But the guys in the neighborhood know that I'm not the type to play rough with...Okay, I'm sweet on my girlfriend Evvie, and my buddy Moose is number one. Tray across the street …

Stream of consciousness Saturday-Wandering about wood on a Saturday morning.

Three cords of wood are all stacked and waiting for winter. Two more are due in. Those last two are semi-dry. It's a bit cheaper, and I'll stack them in the back to finish curing. They'll be my March, April, and early May wood. When they come in I'll be carefully watching the contents. The …

Stream of Consciousness Saturday -August 23, 2025

At the pad I was ( and guess I still am!) a card-carrying Folkie. Now I know that the "straights" always assumed that we hip ones would pad on over to our pads and do groovy things. Just to set the record straight, neither I nor any of my friends ever used groovy or pad …

Hard to do!

You've all heard the saying that you should keep it simple, stupid? Well, simple is hard to do. There is an urge to complicate. To add details and complexity. "oooh! Look, you can see the little man inside the truck, and he has his hand on the shift! and it's only half an inch long!" …

Stream of Consciousness Saturday: Toe the line, mate!

My father was Merchant Marine, my uncle Navy. There was a along lineage of seaman on the Carreras side going all the way back at leaast Jose. He was from Catalonia. On my mothers side th Island folklore had the first Robinson's arriving with Morgan's men (Privateers not Pirates!!!). With this impressive background, how could …

Stream of Consciousness Saturday –

I am not fair-skinned. I have a Mediterranean complexion, and in the summer I tan dark. Back in the days when I sailed every day, you could have described me as "bronzed." It was good to be out on the water in a small sloop, or on a Laser (a class of small high-performance sailboats). …

Creative uses for guilt

Stream of Consciousness Saturday, July 5 th: Remembering can be a good thing. Unless its a memory of some dastardly deed you did that you've never quite been able to get over. No, this is not a confession, and I ain't saying. But I've found that these things are useful. They are something that opens …

Boxes

Stream of Consciousness Saturday - June 28, 2025 It can sometimes be a frustrating part of the craft that people pick up and greatly admire a piece of work, but then move on. If it happened enough with a certain category of items, you discontinue the line. That's what happened with the boxes I used …

Not All Jumbles are Equal

Not All Jumbles are Equal- stream of consciousness -6/21/2025 This spring was a jumble in the garden. At the befining of May I picked up some kind of bug that kicked my butt for about four days. I could sit at the computer, so I was able to continue posting to the blog, but my …