Desert Reflections

Would you want a valance like this on top of every window in your house or RV? Not me.  It belongs in a French Whorehouse! The fa...

Once upon a time, long, long ago and far, far away, bandits disguised themselves as strange wild beasts and invaded a small village.  The vi...

Stucco is the name of the game in these parts.  By 'these parts' I mean the hot, dry areas of the American Southwest.  Darned few ho...

My friend Terry grew up in Wisconsin - although some folks wouldn't agree with that statement.  Those folks would say he was raised in ...

A couple posts back, (Holy Buckets, Batman!) I reported on the floor tile repairs in our home.  That project was just the preliminary event....

Q: What do we really know about global warming? A: Precious little.  We do know that:      1.  A 400-year mini ice age ended about 1850 an...

Last spring we took our house guests, Ron and Holly, on a tour of the Parker Strip.  The Strip is a scenic, mountainous stretch of the Co...