Great hockey game yesterday, both teams played well and with heart. Congrats to Nortuvuscanuckiacs for the OT victory.

Today is the first day of the month and some folks celebrate this by saying rabbit-rabbit to each other, I have no idea where this practice comes from, but I like the sense of it, so rabbit-rabbit to each and to all. The air today is soft, our first real hint of spring, and brought forth a little verse for smiles.

Lions &  Lambs Spoke in Iambs, Foot by Foot

The gods say Marches will come in like lambs

Exit like lions and who is to say

The powers know not what they tell us of

Arrive like eagles, fly away like doves.

Today the air rides soft like fluff of lamb

If you will, beats hell of icy white stuff.

My own view it can away with bleating

Or bleed us like prides of hungry lions,

As long as the white crap removes itself

To parts unknown staying another year,

To snow be gone I raise my drinking glass,

Chug adult beverages, cheer hear-hear.

Grady Service No. 8 is close to finished and then I will set it aside for a few weeks to allow it to cure and ferment.

Our overcast February put me back at the easel with some intensity. Some pictures of the latest effort.

Contact with one of my CO friends this morning. His wife dreads March, says it makes the old man antsy, waiting for ice to melt, runoff all the stuff to follow. When I first started working with COs ten years ago some of them called March “The Dead Month” and I always thought that would make a terrific book title. Though the month may be a fairly dead one, most COs manage to find plenty of jerk-wads out and about, so all violators beware: The game wardens will show when you least expect them, in places they can’t possibly know about. Take this to the bank, dudes.

Over.

Sometimes something unexpected "just calls your name." As a college kid that hat definitely would have defined an important part of my life.

I always wanted to be a rock-and-roller (with no musical ability at all, but great enthusiasm -- and this was long before the era of air bands) Maybe this outfit would earn me a gig with the Yoopers? The sunglasses are way cool!

Who THINKS of this stuff?

Spring and the opener approach and my mind turns to water and brightly colored denizens. Painting on foam board requires drawing with magic marker (pencil won't affix). So this is how a painting on foam begins.

Approaching finito -- a little detail work to do and then it will be finished and it will be on to something else.