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I’ve been trying to avoid posting anything political.
Thanks, Kent, for a lighthearted look at dealing with writer’s block and deadlines. I always enjoy your wood crafts as well as your word crafts. With the server switch being accomplished here at R>, I am sure that Arahant has found his voice again and will send along an approving comment.
Those are both excellent.
Jose, I’m a solid conservative, but I’m not very political. On its surface, that sentence may not seem to make sense. But I suspect you know what I mean.
Thanks, JoelB. The server switch lasted over an hour, so I was chomping at the bit while waiting for Ricochet to come back on line.
Thanks, Aaron. I miss woodworking, but not enough to do anything. After 50 or so years of woodworking, I finally burned out. I go out to my shop every now and then to see if inspiration kicks in. It hasn’t so far. I don’t think it ever will.
Josh Billings.
Jimmy, Josh Billings must have been an avid dog lover. At least he has some great dog quotes.
A very quotable man. “To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” He was so clever that he made a good share of his living giving humorous lectures. He’s often compared to Mark Twain. They were contemporaries.
Exactly.
See? Someone who isn’t lazy could use that for a Quote of the Day.
Hi Jack. I wish I could see you better, but black dogs and cats often suffer the fate of obscurity.
Here’s stripy dog, doing what she does best. I hope there’s enough contrast in this photo.
Hey BDM
Conservatism is about knowing there is more to life than politics. Progressivism tells us that everything is politics.
As I was going through this, I was reminded of the first time I saw Doyle & Debbie at the Ann Arbor Folk Festival years ago. As they abruptly left the stage after an abbreviated version of their show, the MC came back on stage, stared at the audience for a minute with her mouth hanging open, before recovering enough to ask, “What the hell was that?”
Kids, don’t try this at home. Yes, do sign up for the Quote of the Day and provide us with interesting quotations. That’s easy enough. But don’t think you can do Quote of the Day as Kent does. He is unique. Each Quote of the Day is like a walk through a large park with the dog leading you. The dog knows where he is going, and eventually, he’ll get you both there, but there is an interesting smell on this tree over yonder and does anyone else smell a squirrel nearby? Instead of one quotation, we got three of them. We had dogs, Marilyn Monroe, the chicken-hat conversation, woodworking projects, politics and history, and it all came together beautifully. I have no idea how he does that.
If you would like to participate in the Quote of the Day series, our sign-up sheet for November awaits. There are two more openings this month the 26th and 29th.
If, on the other hand, you want to share with Ricochet the thanks you have to give, you might consider Group Writing, for which the theme this month is: Cornucopia of Thanks.
There’s a meme going around recently, roughly
“Want to find out who loves you more, your dog or your wife?
Lock them both in the trunk of the car for an hour. Then when you open the trunk, which one is happy to see you?”
I love this post! A man of many talents. I especially love the whimsy in your writing. The art pieces are perfect. Thanks, Kent.
Thanks, Susan, but where were you when I was trying to sell them in the Tuesday Market in Portland? My little whimsical statues were a drag on the little whimsical statues market, which almost crashed after being being associated with my little statues.
Great post and wonderful carvings, Kent. The only thing that could have made it better is if you would have surrendered to the urge and posted a picture of Bob.
Thanks Old Buckeye. Next time.
That difficulty would be a substantive issue if her toothsomeness were a deficient testimony to itself that could be remediated by the right entire post or even the right fragment of a post.
Luckily not.
Yeah man, sausage and politics.
I wonder why dogs like the taste of me better than they liked Marilyn Monroe?
One Amish dog just got a taste of my shoe, though, and didn’t get any of me.
Except speaking from experience, if you invest in a steak or two, you certainly can buy the wag of a dog’s tail.
I think you can see enough of this black cat.
Not nearly enough. I’m sorry, RushBabe, but your black cat looks like a generic black cat. All of his personality is gone. Here is one of the last photos I took of my now deceased black cat Ebbie.
