I started this project before the move and finished it last week. I chose colors meant to match the interior of a guest room where I stayed at a house with H.E. in Maryland. Our hostess was just so nice, I really wanted to make something for her. I had intended for it to be bigger than its slightly larger than 3′ x 4.25′ dimensions, possibly a small blanket or a full-size afghan, instead of the lap-sized afghan that it…
H.E. told me about this a couple of days ago. PBS will be airing The Complete Jane Austen stories, one every Sunday through April, starting January 13. Not only am I big fan of Jane Austen, I’m a big fan of Masterpiece Theater. I love the period pieces they play, like Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy), Bleak House (Charles Dickens), and Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte). Some movies they produce themselves; others are produced by A&E or BBC. When we…
There was an earthquake off the coast of Oregon today, so naturally there was a tsunami warning all along the coast, just in case. Shortly after I moved, I spent some time on the Huntington Beach city web site to find out about all the recycling stuff, and somehow I stumbled onto the tsunami preparedness page, where I found a larger version of this map: Let me tell you, it was eye-opening. I used to live in the white area…
Following is some of what I’ve been doing in the last days of 2007 and the first days of 2008. My favorite of the bunch is Body Parts, which almost wasn’t approved. Illustration by P. L. Nunn. Layout by me. Click to visit Pepper Espinoza’s web site. Share this post:
Recently I’ve been invited by friends to participate in many trivia and puzzle games and to take a few IQ tests. It’s funny, but I tend to perform fairly well at these things, but I never feel as if it’s an accurate reflection of my intelligence, or my lack of it. Well, actually … I don’t do that well in trivia, so I can exclude that. My mind just doesn’t have the knack for silly little details like names and…