Dad29 has a collection ; AVI has a nice piece sung in a stone cathedral. 

The giant laughter of Christian men  That roars through a thousand tales,  Where greed is an ape and pride is an ass,  And Jack's away w...

My oldest friend's weaving studio at first light this morning. She likes to weave in the pre-dawn hours before all the craziness starts...

 

 

I’m not the artist Tex is, but I did bake a bit today. Not all of it survived to be photographed.  Clockwise from top, Snickerdoodle cookies...

...but how could you not ?

We've reached the stage of Advent where I am actively trying to do non-Christmas stuff so as to preserve the really good stuff for the 1...

And a Christmas gator, one of my new batch of ornaments:

The worst thing about them is that they're so likeable . It makes it hard to remain devoted to the necessary purges. Some highlights; yo...

I'm nuts about clever boxes, but lack any affinity whatever for carpentry. It would be great if I had an acquaintance who would make a ...

  This year made with dehydrated blueberries reconstituted in honey, and a compound butter swirl.  UPDATE: This turned into a discussion of ...

It has been the solar new year for an hour or so. Thus begins the Yuletide, which refers to the wheel (‘Jul’ or ‘Yule’) of the sun. 

Come Christmas, I may try this . The compound butter sounds great. 

Sen. Schumer vows to hold a record vote on Build Back Bonanzalooza in January so certain people will have to vote in the Senate and "no...

Tonight I had a Rauchbier, which is a smoked lager from Germany. The argument is that until the Middle Ages all beer was like this .  This s...

NY Magazine ran a far better than average article about how to analyze the Omicron news coming out of South Africa and the UK. I got all t...

Garden & Gun has some Southern suggestions.