Tonight at the Ames on the Half Shell meeting we got the new magnets for this coming season. Opening Night is less than 2 weeks away. I have a few of these magnets that need a good home. If you can put one of these up in a public place… Read More »Magnetic Moment
On May 18, 1980 three things happened. 1. Mt. St. Helens erupted. 2. Stephanie Kasper was born. 3. I turned 5. 5 years earlier I was born. A cousin of mine once gave my two sisters and I the very backhanded compliment that we turned out pretty well considering the… Read More »Mt. St. Helens Anniversary
The subject of this entry is not a reference to the Spartans. This is the 300th entry in An Artist’s Notebook. This post is mostly to announce to the world in general: “You’ve beaten me, again!!” It isn’t the first time that the world has beaten me. It certainly won’t… Read More »300
On May 10, 2008, I loaded up into the famous Rideshare Van with Baier and we headed to Fort Dodge to tour the Fort Dodge Museum and see the “Real” Cardiff Giant. I already knew that there would be a certain amount of controversy surrounding the trip and the Cardiff… Read More »Lessons Learned in a Giant’s Town
Last Friday Jesse and I embarked on a road trip that we lovingly named The Big Jesus Road Trip. Our final destination and epoch of the trip was a 33 foot tall stainless steel Jesus statue. A plan was hatched and a route was devised. The plan was set in… Read More »The Big Jesus
On Monday night I aided in the production of the newest batch of Little White Lye Soap. I thought I would share an inside look at the Little White Lye Soap factory floor. The Mixing Stick (Formerly Ergonomic) Becky Stirring A Self Proclaimed Master Stirrer Finishing Up Preparing to Pour… Read More »The Most Fun You Can Have with Caustics
Tonight was the night that the Jaycees planted and tended to our Flower Garden in Brookside Park. 3 of us showed up to do it. Here are some dark and grainy and poor pictures from the experience. I’ll most likely post pictures of the flowers as the year progresses or… Read More »Playing in the Mud
I hope everybody had a lovely Mother’s Day. The Mother’s Day Peony is blooming right on schedule. Here are a couple of pictures More flower pictures to come in the future.
A week back when I was publishing my endorsement of Little White Lye Soap the product pictures on the Little White Lye Soap were less than satisfactory. They have since been replaced and updated with way more acceptable pictures like this one: I urge you to follow the link below… Read More »LWL Products Page
So I went for dinner with Ungs last night. It was interesting because right before he stopped by to pick me up, he was just finishing up his job. I don’t know all of the details of his job, but part of it involves taking children home. On this night… Read More »Supper with the Ungs
I rarely discuss the weather, but that was some storm last night. I wish I had some pictures of that storm to post, but I don’t. I spent last night inside, like a coward. Rather than outdoors taking lightning pictures. Not because I am a coward, but because Crossroads just… Read More »Some Storm
I have a week chock full of fun activities, but I think one might stand above all the others. Tonight Derrick and I are having a little bonding time by watching Crossroads. If you instantly thought of the Britney Spears movie, you are not my friend. Please erase my e-mail… Read More »Tell My Friend Willie Brown
It has been over a week since The Great Insult. I have yet to fully recover. To recap The Great Insult. It was during a break in the fast paced action of the Ames Jaycees Sandbox Fill. I was sitting in the backseat with Jamie. We had been getting along… Read More »Just Another Computer Guy
I have been looking forward to today for quite some time. After church Lowell and I attended a Methodist Men board meeting. I learned a lot about our future activities. We are serving the food at the Mother-Daughter Banquet this coming Saturday. We are serving Fellowship in the month of… Read More »False Snake Hype
Today was Alexis’ gymnastics recital. I took a few pictures of her during the event. bars2 As you can tell, she is really good. Flowers I’ve been fighting a battle with a tulip lately, but I finally got a few of pictures of it. These are the first flower pictures… Read More »Cardinal Gymnastics Academy
I’m not the type of person that grouses about their job all that much. That is mostly because I enjoy my job and I have only a modicum of responsibility. Plus for the most part, very few people can screw me over in my job. So the co-workers that I… Read More »A Couple Computer Mine Thoughts
I went to the church on Wednesday to take a group photo of the stitching group that Teresa started in Olivia’s name. Here is the result. This picture is going to go in the church bulletin, so in the end it will end up looking something like this: I took… Read More »Olivia’s Stitching Time
You will most likely appreciate this a little bit more if you actually know Nader, because this is Classic Nader. I haven’t traveled farther than Des Moines from my front door this entire year. Yes, I know that is exceedingly pathetic and that error will be corrected in roughly 9… Read More »Greetings from London
Saturday was the big annual Ames Jaycees Sandbox Fill. I’m going to try to combine a couple of different things together to describe the event and I’m not sure it is going to come together exactly right. So like I was saying, Saturday was the big annual Ames Jaycees Sandbox… Read More »Ames Jaycees Sandbox Fill
What you are about to experience is bits of a national advertising campaign that I would suggest that Little White Lye Soap launch immediately. However, I don’t have much pull in that department. So we’ll have to see what happens. These pictures are of the actual models that I would… Read More »Little White Lye Bonus
Little White Lye Soap We have established the economic benefits of switching to Little White Lye Soap. We have established the universal appeal of Little White Lye Soap. We have shown the wide range of products available from Little White Lye Soap. We have displayed the practical uses of a… Read More »Little White Lye Product Endorsement Part 4