Storm Large: 8 Miles Wide

Just go watch it. Words fail me.

More Carved Heads

Tired of working on the motorhome, I returned to carving heads and did my first head with a torso included.

Many people ask me why I like to carve cyclops and pinhead figures.

Some surmise it's a deep internal weirdness, others think because my twin sister had multiple birth defects, I am obsessed.

Others offer conjecture that that traumatic childhood event with the Jehovah's Witness Circus clown with one eye and 12 toes warped me for life.

But they're wrong. It's because I have a four inch disc grinder, and it's hard to make two eyeballs fit when you can only carve a four inch eye on a six inch wide slab of wood.

Plus, a pinhead cyclops can be dead sexy. Oooo la la!

Cabbage, Savoy, Rocks.

I picked this a week and a half ago, and it was damn tasty.

My cabbages are really, really happy this year.

My tomatoes are too, although they're coming on slow.

My potato towers look great too, I hope they work out. You're supposed to be able to grow 30 to 40 pounds in one three foot round by three foot tall wire tower, and it sure looks like it's working.

Might be a record year for hops and grapes, too. And last weekend, Kori and I picked a five gallon bucket full of cherries at our lovely pal Shannon's house, pitted them all and froze them. All but the gallon or so we gave away at EVP after picking them.

Next up, kale, garlic ramps and grapes.

Baby Photo of Gollum

A rare baby photo of the young Gollum, before he went on to infamy, shame, wretched despair and death.