Photograph showing the wonderful blues of our blue bottle tree against the bright fall yellow of a Sweet Gum tree (Portrait orientation)

The wonderful blues of our blue bottle tree against the bright fall yellow of the Sweet Gum tree in our front yard.

Diocesan Convention – ERD Workshop – These pictures serve to prove that on occasion I leave the confines of my office and venture out into the real world to do some work. Two-minute read, 5 pictures

Clue: The Musical – Closing Night – Tonight we watched Lanie play Miss Scarlet Photo Album: +30

Clue: The Musical – Tonight we watched Lanie play Miss Scarlet 8 Pictures

Uh-oh! It looks like we need more bookcases. 2 pictures

Back to the Bookcases – (See what I did there?) Today I got a chance to put the final coat of varnish on the backs of the bookcases. Then this evening I indulged myself with an orgy of nailing with the nail gun. It’s starting to look a lot like my plan. 2 pictures

Three Fishing Lures

Fishing Lures – No fish at all today.

Fall at Pomme de Terre Lake, Missouri – The Fall color has really come along the past couple of weeks. 3 pictures

Clouds reflected in Pomme de Terre Lake, Missouri USA

Fishing on Pomme de Terre Lake – Working for yourself has its disadvantages and advantages. Seven day weeks and long hours are a couple of the disadvantages. One of the advantages is that when a friend asks if I want to go fishing, with a bit of re-arranging, I can ‘Hang spring cleaning’ and be free to go. One-minute read, 9 pictures

Bookcases – First Fit – Now these are out of the workshop I have space to stain and varnish the backs. 3 pictures

YMC and Diocesan Council – Today I was off to Carthage first thing to grab a couple of interviews on video. +3

Miss Scarlet. Clue: The Musical – Now the musical has begun I can show this re-processed picture

Portrait picture of Lanie and Getzger Cat

Lanie & Getzger — Testing some new lights with Lanie and Getzger’s help. It’s a shame the depth of field is just too shallow, one of Lanie’s eyes is slightly out of focus. I couldn’t get the pair of them to stay still long enough for a decent picture.

Building an eight foot long, recessed bookcase for the hall. 4 pictures

Blue Kitty on my desk (again) – Hopefully I don’t need to write any notes this morning.

This evening Lanie was inducted into the National Honor Society. Well done Lanie!!

Hurrican (oil) lamp in use in the backyard

Hurricane Lamp – I love oil lamps. One-minute read

The start of the evening – The evenings are starting to get cool and temporarily at least, the mosquitoes have gone away.

Maine Coon, Blue Kitteh sleeping on the edge of Gary Allman's office desk.

Watching my work companion I’m thinking it might be worth my while switching allegiances to Buddhism. After all, from what I’ve seen, the possibility of being reincarnated as an in-door domestic cat seems to be a pretty good option.

Twilight at Stockton lake

An Evening Fishing on Stockton Lake –

School Open House — ‘Clue’ Rehearsal

After meeting with some of Lanie’s teachers we went along to sit in on part of an early rehearsal for this fall’s school musical ‘Clue’ Lanie will be appearing as Miss Scarlet. 5

That confusing moment … when driving home from Sedalia today I wondered when I was going to catch sight of the sea.

Note to self. Hwy65 is not the A3.

Rentals – I get a lot of rentals. 1   2

Ever since Tubby was introduced to cat videos on YouTube he has become obsessed with screens and anything vaguely screen shaped. This is not always conducive to my work. He sits on my desk for ages staring at the screen following the mouse pointer.

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