Settle in—this is a long list, and will take awhile. This first one actually took place in August but that month’s Learned List was also very full. With my 6′-6″ tall friend, we figured out how to get the spider webs out of the extremely high windows on our A-frame church. 2. The website and […]
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 […]
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. […]
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Trying to Explain the Inexplicable
Our internet is working again. The three-day crash coincided with my blog having some mysterious troubles. It will take awhile for me to untangle this and make it work for you. Many of you subscribe to my blog. (THANK YOU!) Many of my subscribers don’t understand that you can go to the internet, to cabinart.net, […]
Twelve Things (Plus 5 Subcategories) Learned in August
2. In late July on two consecutive days right around 5:45, we heard a tree fall on the slope above our cabin. The Farmer asked if I knew why they fell, and of course I said, “because they were dead”. Nope. It was hot out, the trees sucked up a ton of water from the […]