Black Out Shades
Falling asleep at 8 pm most nights is easy enough for me, given how early my natural east coast alarm forces my eyes open each morning. Doesn’t matter to me whether darkness has fallen. But Lisa needs a dark room to sleep in, and the summer sun in NoCo sets pretty late. So when we […]
Scaling Jack The Spruce
Yesterday was one of those relatively quiet days. When the three little witches were not enjoying the hot tub, or watching Kids Netflix, or playing with the Barbie Skyscraper, they were hanging out front with the neighbor kids, along with Lisa and Luke in the driveway or in the JTS magic grotto, chalking the shit […]
Got It All Done Day
Yesterday was one of those days where I drew my energy from the land and just got everything done. First I treated myself to a head spa day, and Anna the Barber worked her magic while I was off who knows where in my astral state, returning to her chair over an hour later to […]
Petticoat Junction
While the McCaffreys have always been a matriarch led Clan, its numbers were primarily male dominated. It was a no frills, spartan existence. Roughhousing was the default mode. Indeed, my sister had to thump it out with her brothers, and my daughter Jackie was a Tomboy who regularly whipped the ass off any boys that […]
Counting Blessings
Yesterday was one of those strange days where the natural light made every view at Casa Claire look like an Andrew Wyeth painting. And as I looked around Casa Claire, a deep feeling of appreciation came over me. I often tell people that I’m the luckiest guy in the word. Because I am. First, I […]
Skyclad Rides Again – The Lawlors
When I first arrived at Casa Claire, one of the most interesting items the previous owners had left behind for us was an old hot tub. This hot tub was situated in the small add-on room off the dining area, which once housed Parrots and now houses Lisa’s office – and also functions as the […]
Claire and Honey Call The Shots
Claire the Mule and her little sister Honey have free range access to Casa Claire, including tithe collection rights at the dungeon’s back door. I’ve broken all of the rules of animal husbandry and allowed them to pretty much revert to being feral. While I could easily hide behind my Green Acres, Oliver Wendall Douglas, […]
September Is Looking Busy
Stopped by the Berthoud Public Library yesterday evening to drop off an inscribed copy of Where The Ley Lines Meet and was asked by the Librarian, Thora Siemsen, if I was available to participate in a Literary Festival in late September. Of course I said yes. I’ll be doing some readings and a Q&A from […]
Thank You Lonnie Bell – The Claire Saga MOS Set Is Complete
After submitting to rain enforced lock down for 24 hours, during which the grands did their best running rendition of banshees in training, yesterday the sun came out and Luke and Georgie took the kids to a well-needed outing at the Denver Zoo. Those poor animals. That gave Lisa a chance to perform recovery work […]
Where My Books Go
Just sat through a power outage from 4:04 to 4:13 am (and a second one from 5:38 to 5:46 when I thought I lost this blog, lol). I had just gone through my emails and texts and DMs on FB when the world went black. During the contemplative darkness that followed, I let my mind […]