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LINK AND THE BONE HEAD

Link’s house mate, Simon, has twice startled me by entering a room wearing a cow’s pelvis on his head. Masks don’t generally sit well with me and when Simon appears in this get up, It gives me the heebie jeebies. I try to pretend that it is just Simon in his bone outfit. I try […]

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CAMCORDER AT LARGE

Matt got a new camcorder and brought it by Camelina the other night. At the same time, Ian dropped by with the good news that he had passed the big test, allowing him to move forward with his Ph.D. So, over peanuts and beers, they filmed this: Something tells me this is just the beginning…

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MAKING CAMELINA

It appears you can make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear if you try hard enough. One starts by changing the name. In the case of “The Trailer,” it took about twenty hours of Bob’s hard work before I would even consider living there. He wiped down the walls, shampooed the carpets, killed […]

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KILL POSSUM, SHOW CHICKEN

There was an odd look on Greg’s face when he and Bob returned from the chicken house. “We took care of some business,” Bob said to the group sitting around the fire pit. Bob and Greg had been talking about Biodiesel as they strode off under the full moon to check for eggs, so I […]

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MISSING LINK

Our new best friend Link was not around yesterday and we missed him. We spent a good deal of time with him Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but not Monday. Funny how you don’t miss someone until they are – well, missing. Ten years ago, we knew something was missing in our lives and set […]