Ellie Mae LOVES drinking from hoses, sprinklers, faucets, any kind of running water.
Ellie Mae quenches her thirst
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Cool drink of water….
Tuffy P at it again….
Yesterday Tuffy P did up two more cupboard panels as part of her grand kitchen mosaic madness.
Grand Kitchen Mosaic Madness
Life on 27th Street
A behind the scenes look….
Pooped Pooch
Ellie Mae at rest
It’s all mine!
That’s Gracie eating while Phyllis has a hissy fit….
Chow Time
Steel-driving Man
A Steel-driving man is not the same as a man of steel. This song is about THE steel-driving man, John Henry. He was going to beat that steam drill through the mountain if it killed him, which it did….Great tune.
Here’s an instrumental version played by the South Carolina Broadcasters. I loved the energy of this group when we saw them play at Merlefest!
Now here’s a tougher take on the song – Mississippi Fred McDowell….
Merle Travis!
Tommy Jarrell on clawhammer
Let’s go out with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston
Jacques
Jacques
That’s better….
I added an “n”
alphabet soup revisited
But I had a leftover “t” so I thought I’d make a shovel letter. It’s portable…can go anywhere you can stick a shovel….
shovel “t”
Alphabet Soup
At the recent Christie antique (translate junk & stuff) sale near Flamboro, I bought a bunch of red letters. At the time it seemed urgent that I owned these things. Tuffy P has 3 of them (ESP) leaning up against the skirt of our deck. Early this morning I decided to make a hanging alphabet soup totem-red-letter-thing to hang under one of our spruce trees, by the wood pile.
red-letter-totem-thing
Mud
Mud is a coming of age boys adventure story, a tried and true (if possibly tired old) genre. There was plenty of opportunity for this to be a bad movie, but no, no, no, go see this one. Writer/director Jeff Nichols pulls it off. Great story, fine acting, a well-paced atmospheric presentation. If I have any beef with this film at all, I would say it is a little bit longer than it needed to be, but that can easily be forgiven in a movie that has so many positives.
27th Street 