Cooking up spoon butter in an old pickle jar. What do y’all use your old pickle jars for?

Times like this I wish I had a bigger workshop, so I could have twice as much clutter.

Just bought the version 2 suite of Affinity apps: Photo, Designer, and Publisher. I tend to be wary of upgrades but the apps have been so sensible in both design and pricing that I’m looking forward to seeing what’s new.

Apparently whatever else I can do, I am incapable of using a calendar. The Pirate Panther Princess will be published next Tuesday, December 6. (This is what happens maybe when you are trying to run two unrelated one-man businesses.)

Hey folks, my novel The Pirate Panther Princess comes out next Tuesday, December 6!

It will be available in a softcover edition via print-on-demand, but the first six chapters will be available free online, so you can preview before buying. I hope you’ll take a look next week!

At long last, the recipe for my famous fruitcake, for which people have been not asking for almost thirty years. 🍞

If a lazy susan doesn’t turn, is it still lazy? Or is it lazier?

A girl walked up to my booth and said, oh, what kind of wood is all this? It smells so good! I told her about the wood but did not tell her that the sweet smell was bug spray someone used to kill the ant colony under my table.

I fear I have made a dangerous mistake: I started watching old episodes of The Great British Baking Show. Until now I had avoided it. Two nights, four episodes, and today I’m in the kitchen baking chocolate potato bread. 🍞