Because the people at Bogs are so nice and because I am so nice and because you are so nice … I’m giving away a pair of boots. There’s just niceness all around.  If you don’t count wars and famines and such. I got my first pair of Bogs boots last fall.  I’ve done quite [...]

I used to spend a lot of time watching cooking shows. Not the kind on the Food Network … you don’t actually see a whole lot of cooking on the Food Network for some reason.  No, I’d watch PBS.  Classics like Julia Child, Jacque Pepin, the Galloping Gourmet and Lidia Bastianich.  THESE are the kind [...]

From me … and the chickens.            

  There are very few things in life that are  more emotionally draining or physically taxing than attending a marathon.  And by attending I mean watching one.   As the supporter of a spouse who performs various strenuous activites for fun, I can tell you first hand, it’s a struggle. Between the weight lifting and [...]

Once upon a time  my printer ran out of ink. It was a sad, sad day and I cried very hard.  I pulled myself together and walked down to the corner so I could rob a bank.  When I got to the bank, I thought better of it and turned around and walked home.  I [...]

Behold … the mailboxes of the WORLD, as sent in by The Art of Doing Stuff readers. This is easily the weirdest post I’ve ever done. Last week I asked readers to send me in a picture of their country’s communal mailbox.  Then I spent a lot of time explaining what I meant.  Not the [...]

If you pay attention to the little sponsor boxes on my righthand side bar you may have noticed something new this past month. As you know I spent the majority of last summer swearing at a pile of wood and injuring myself.   All in the name of a beautiful chicken coop.  Now, this whole [...]

I gather eggs on a daily basis.  Much like a farmhand.  Oftentimes I look like a farmhand.  Sadly for me, I usually look this way when people show up unannounced.  Happily for me, I don’t much care. I know I clean up nice, so that’s really all that matters.  Well, that and the fact that [...]

  Here’s the thing about me.  I injure myself at least 3 times a week.  I cut myself, burn myself and just generally maim myself.  I have bruises and no idea where they came from, scratches that seem to appear out of nowhere and this week for instance, my left butt cheek was so sore [...]

Hit me with your best shot. That’s right.  Why dontcha hit me with your best shot?   Fire away. Today is a bit of fun.  Which of course makes today no different than any other day at The Art of Doing Stuff.  Unless I lose a contest.  In which case it’s a little bit of [...]

I have chickens. Chickens eat anything. Yet, I continue to post the series “Will They Eat It”? And you keep falling for it. Of course they’ll eat it. They’re chickens. Over the course of the year I’ve owned these chickens they’ve eaten everything from live crickets to one of those pedicure toe separators. And the [...]

Well. You’re lucky. I managed to find time in between hauling buckets of sap into the house and scrubbing maple syrup off of every surface of my kitchen, myself and my cats to do my Tea Towel drawing. And by tea towel drawing I don’t mean a pencil sketch, I mean, drawing for the 5 [...]