Salt Usually Melts...

Here it freezes...

For SBV...

Persephone is in the foreground. Teemu a/k/a "The Finnish Fat" is in the background. They are mischievous little things.

For the life of me, I don't know where we keep all these animals.

Spinning Plates

Just doing the dishes...

Shed

It's a shed. In Minnesota.
I like the red. In the photo.

From the upcoming coffee table book...Sheds

Cassady

I can't do this without losing it. This is Cassady. She turned ten at the end of November. Three weeks later I came downstairs to see my wife holding Cassady and crying. I knew something was wrong. I knew I didn't want to know.

I can't do this.

Cassady is dying. She has cancer. And it pisses me off.

Eighteen Again

As of yesterday I have now completed two eighteen year stints on this earth. Birth to college in the first go around, college to married with child in the second. Physically, not much has changed in the past eighteen years. I'm a little lighter now. Also, a little taller. Slower than I want to admit, and the hair is a little thinner. Haven't tried in a couple years, but I don't think I can dunk a basketball anymore. Okay, maybe I'm fooling myself. At least, I'm not fat and bald, yet. Something to look forward to for the third stint.

In the past eighteen years, I still haven't figured out what I'm going to do when I grow up. I continue to hold out for 'guitar hero,' but openings don't seem to come up as often as you would think.