I have posted many pictures of my Christopher Ross belt collection, but another line of vintage belts that I'm pretty passionate about is Laloon.  Laloon is a mysterious line, and almost impossible to find.  I have managed to collect only 5 of them over time.  Pictured below is my elephant.  It's hard to tell how [...]

Mine is masquerading as land fill in what used to be my driveway.  This is day three of my plumbing adventure.  Isn't home ownership fun?

Hi Everyone–I made it back from NY finally.  I got a new computer.  Mine unfortunately was not recovered.  No snakes this time, but I am having major plumbing problems and my entire front yard is torn up.  What next?  I'm really happy to be back from NY, and we had a great time.  There are [...]

I'm still in NY and having a great time.  I did have a devasting event.  I left my computer on the airplane.  I've tried desparately to get it back, but to no avail. I feel so stupid!!  I know there are e-mails I haven't answered, so I apologize, I hope to get back to normal [...]

Back in Texas for not quite a day.  We got in late last night, and were met by a very unwelcome visitor.  We found a nice sized copper head curled up on our front porch.  Being the big sissies we are, we called the police.  The great thing about living in a small town is [...]

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We're in LA, so I'm taking a sabbatical from blogging for a bit.  While cleaning out my IPhoto, I came across these pretty rooms on

Carol and I were hanging out last night watching the genius that is   Monster Quest inspired this post for me.  It got me to thinking—is there  any fashion trend so bad that it could be called "monstrous?."  So hideous that a sighting of one of these things could call for a team of investigators?   [...]

If any of you have shopped on the I'm keeping these–the elephant belongs to Jane, the Ram is mine, I'm an Aries, and his eyes are missing, which does not take away from him in the least.  Lastly, the mermaid.  Jane and I love all things to do with the sea–so she will be staying. [...]

This summer while in Japan, I corresponded with one of my favorite new young bloggers.   Her blog. Thanks Ida, Mom and Dad for letting me post this!  Go Ida!!