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Basking

Here is Pebble, getting some autumn sun!

October 18, 2025

A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

I recently finished reading A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873) by Thomas Hardy. It was his third published book and one of many “Wessex” novels he wrote, Wessex being his imagined region of England. I have heard Hardy’s writing referred to as an acquired taste…I’m not sure if this is true, but I find his…

August 10, 2025

Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter (Dragonlance Preludes #1)

I just finished reading Darkness and Light by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter. It is a Dragonlance fantasy novel and the first in the Preludes series. These books are set in the five years before the first of the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. I loved the Chronicles as a kid and…

July 25, 2025

Rock Polishing

Polishing rocks with a rock tumbler!

March 13, 2025

Ogre

Battle Masters miniature war game!

March 13, 2025

Window

Pebble loves to sit in the window and look out upon the world. He’ll spend hours doing this, and likes windows in both the bedroom and the kitchen.

March 13, 2025

A Few Comics

I stopped at a comic shop in a little town during our family reunion. Picked up five issues:

July 17, 2024

Quick update

For some reason, many of the images that previously loaded on this website are no longer working. I’m not sure if perhaps size limits were changed or if there is some other explanation. I have changed a few of them so that they still appear, but many, especially scans of postcards, are no longer working.…

January 19, 2024

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