Author Archives: youngholm

Some may call it junk, others apparently call it art. Whatever, it’s fascinating.

  This is the second tarantula we’ve seen this year. The first was in Betsy’s apartment!

Temps in the 90s, full sun, hot pavement….ahh, just the thing for a Sunday afternoon rest. Sent from my iPad

http://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/a17028

I bought a lightly used design board a while ago, which is really a pull down shade, from one of the quilting guild members. Arlin mounted it over a set of the French doors in the craft house and this … Continue reading →

We had a couple of new friends from the EMCSPCA over for pizza last night. They both volunteer at the Thrift Shop and I had been talking with Kimberly (left) about the issue of finding pizza both she and Bennie … Continue reading →

I finally figured out (I think) how to calculate our solar savings with reasonable accuracy. The figures below go back only nine months, because that was when PG&E started giving us enough information on our bills to be able to … Continue reading →

Somehow this big toad (he’s next to a corn cob) got himself into the chickens’ enclosure. I only discovered him because I heard him scrambling out of my way as I went to collect the eggs later than usual. This … Continue reading →

Quite a while ago I took a class through the quilting association involving tracing a photograph using a light box (which Arlin built for me) onto fabric and then trying some coloring and shading techniques with inks and crayons. I … Continue reading →

This is the fifth day in a row that the mantis has been hanging around the hummingbird feeders. I have to move it every time I fill them, and it always comes back. The hummingbirds don’t like it — they … Continue reading →