Aye, Aye Skipper

caywood point-- Took a year-ending ramble to the shores of Seneca Lake and spent the afternoon skipping stones across the silvery ribbons of water. Here is a situation where plumbing the depths is easily achievable with a clumsy kerplunk but to skim the surface is sparkling transcendence.

Reader's Poll, Country Style

caywood--

Raise your hand if you ever driven past your retired-guy neighbor's house and happened to glance over at precisely the moment the retired guy has approached his entirely glass front door, his white undershirt tucked into his white jockey shorts.

My hand is up.

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

caywood station --Spring has finally and truly arrived. I love nothing better than standing in the back yard admiring the flowers, the garden, the blossoming orchard, and the sheer greenness of it all.

Winter Morning

caywood station --
The view from the balcony on a cold winter morning.

This One's For You, Jasper

unnamed heavy equipment parking area--

What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander Dept.

latimes.com-- Aurora the resident Wonder Chicken was reading her RSS feed this morning and passed along this choice morsel:

Item: Calif. man killed by armed bird at cockfight, was stabbed by rooster with attached knife.

Now, while Aurora is appalled, appalled I say, at this tragic loss of human life, she does feel the need to point out the glaringly obvious way that this tragedy could have been averted.

Don't do cockfights.

Picture This

rt. 96, southbound--

A tiny roundup of recent Rascal's reader board messages.

Last week:
Turkey
Raised on Radio

... is that organic radio?


This week:
Meatloaf

... the meal and the man?