This was one of those days made up of many seemingly unrelated segments, with no connecting thread and no plan really. Well, there was a pl...

Fun with Grim Ratter ... I'm making a special gift tag for this rat, complete with a very cool poem by Really Rather Not Nice. I'm g...

The Grim Ratter ***** October 18 is the day my father died. October 18 is the day my nephew was born. I love them both. Really, October 18 i...

GRIM RATTER IS HERE (Tell your friends) Summer has left us in the usual way. Yesterday morning we sat outside in the near dark with our ...

Lisa is Better Lisa is Back And The Madness Continues… I’d like to introduce you to my new friend, Grim Ratter . He’s smart and witty with a...

Back in that "other life" I mention occasionally one of the projects I worked on involved looking for pyrogens in sterile surgical...

I was, as everyone, stunned and dismayed at the news of the earthquake in Southeast Asia. and I’m sure, like others, cried as I read the sto...

Orion_spidey 

This is the first time I’ve been in town for Halloween in some years, and the first ever for decorating here. The real problem, you see, wit...

People tend to send me rubber rats. I generally like that. Ravyn sent me this one, which is more plastic than rubber, but that she painted h...

Here is part II of "Little Death". Please forgive typos. I don't dare proof an old story. That would only lead to a bout of ed...

October is here, though the desert is cloudless today. We can tell it's autumn though, because instead of swimming, Orion and I sit with...

Honestly I've not done much more than paint and pack and send rats to lots of people. As Neil posted the "Rat Sale" on his j...

The photo (below) is a small portion of a work in progress called, well, "You Are Here". It is actually going to be a desk with a...

You Are Here... 

I’ve been waking before dawn, for reasons unknown, to lie there in the darkness and think about all sorts of things. Often, if I forget to c...

The guys: Poe, Ellison, Lovecraft, Gaiman--for some reason Blogger would not let me post photos within the journal text, so, photos here, te...

Rat portrait in clay 

Oreo gone 

There have been times when I thought working on small pieces--like rats --kept me from doing more challenging and exciting work Possibly the...