Okay, so we got this weird phone call the other day. It was a woman from Yuksel Carpets, which is the outfit that sold us our carpet in Turkey. Interesting followup, I thought. Anyway, according to the lady, it seems that Yuksel is in a jam. They were selling carpets at the big January carpet […]

The great thing about living in the country is watching nature happen all around you. All winter long, the sandhill cranes become our neighbors. They spend the night in the Rio Grande nearby, and you can hear them calling each other in the night. Early in the morning they fly out to the farmers’ fields […]

We have here Minnesota’s new law creating the office of state poet laureate.

More updates from our world of home improvement. Here we see a lovely southwestern sunset as viewed through the wrought-iron security doors that were installed following our burglary. Ernie’s Custom Iron Works in Albuquerque provided the lovely (and quite reasonably priced) “corn maiden” design, which allows us to view the world through an aesthetic creation […]