Because I want to

Hooo-eeee, I have lost my work ethic, gotten lazy, filled my life with other things, something. . . I used to work full-time as an artist. Now I just piddle around. It’s a relaxed and flexible way to live. Why am I doing this? Because I don’t have any commissions, upcoming art shows or boutiques, […]

While on a Blogging Break, Chapter Three

Gnat and I returned to the beach, this time heading to Capitola, a cute (expensive) little town we’d never been to before. Why there? Because some friends of mine have a little place there and invited us to park in their driveway. Because one of those friends is a drawing student and happens to be […]

Meanwhile, Back in Mineral King

Before the blog and website went dark and I took a subsequent break, there was a major work weekend among the cabin folks in Mineral King. This was the 2nd weekend of reducing fuels, which is another way of saying that a bunch of people gathered together and worked our tails off to clear off […]

While on a Blogging Break, Chapter Two

Anytime I visit Gnat in Gilroy, we go to the beach. Just do. Any chance I get. Always. Every time. We went to this beach last year about the same time. Rio Del Mar has a semi-sunken cement ship, such a curiosity. You can read about it here: https://www.cabinart.net/away-in-gilroy-chapter-one/ (Scroll down about halfway) There were […]

While on a Blogging Break, Chapter One

My dear friend Gnat lives in Texas and spends time in Gilroy in the summer. It is easier for me to visit her in Gilroy than in Texas, so I took Momscar 200 miles northwest of Three Rivers for a handful of days. Yesterday I told you that we (Gnat and I, not Momscar and […]

How to Comment on This Blog

In addition to my tech battles, the power was off for a day at home in Three Rivers. When it was restored, something weird happened in my studio. I went to Gilroy to spend time with a dear friend of 40 years. We are astonishingly compatible, and the time together erased much of my irritation […]

Taking a Blog Rest

In an attempt to fix the subscription feature on this blog, I spent almost an entire day doing the phone hustle, the robot runaround, the giant corporation calisthenics, being batted back and forth between the blog host company and the platform developers, none of whom (except the robots) spoke English as their first language. (“I’m […]

Taking Labor Day Seriously

Yeppers, off schedule for Mineral King on Fridays. Sometimes that just the way it all works out. All I did was work over Labor Day. I labored, beginning with helping some neighbors make progress on painting their cabin. It was a very satisfying project, just a good productive mellow time of being with dear friends. […]