image from art.com “…The ideal hostess makes tea herself in the drawing-room.  A table is equipped with spirit-lamp and shining kettl...

Chunk proudy “fetched” a stick in to Brian this morning.  Unfortunately, it was what was left of one of the two blueberry bushes he’s b...

image from Pinterest Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock eve...

Collage artist/s crapbooker alert - with great Edwardian color illustrations. Available as a free download from  Project Gutenberg . ...

If you are lucky enough to be on vacation this month, I hope it’s somewhere cool.

One upside to heat.  Kind of cool to see a cat pant. ~ Jonah Goldberg

I  was reading on the patio and noticed Chunk  standing in front of the basement door, whining to get in.

image from Pinterest Sir – May I be allowed in your columns to ask why the British public is so horrified at the idea of women dres...

Yes, Chunk did it. The church across the street is a Pokemon Go stop and there’s something about clusters of adolescents drifting down th...

This is the fifty gallon cattle tank That collects the rainwater That runs off the roof Of the garage at the house where Shay l...

I have been wondering if my country has gone completely mad.

A magazine cover with a few fireworks of its own - Argosy , one of the better and longer-running pulp magazines.  There are quite a few ...

image from Patricia at agence eureka Chunk (formerly known as Dribblechin) is as different from Batdog (formerly Newdog – for the ears...

from Pinterest 1. Turns out Newdog is afraid of thunder (I assume that’s why he was trying to get under the covers with me very early ...

A reasonable facsimile of the floor around the water dish As you may recall, when Newdog first arrived, he tried very hard to get Res...