Category Archives: Stories of my life

Christmas stuff…

Posted on December 26, 2018 by pouringmyartout

My daughters, Jessica, on the left, and Mollie. Christmas Eve. I love those two. My mom still has the vase I gave her last year, the one I made in the glass blowing class, on top of one of her … Continue reading →

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A fancy table and a more-or-less-traditional English Christmas dinner…

Posted on December 26, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Christmas is a little subdued this year. Normally, there are a lot more people at my mom’s house in the Bay Area, but due to many reasons, two brothers are not here. That means that nieces and nephews are also … Continue reading →

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Let the Christmas festivities commence!!!

Posted on December 25, 2018 by pouringmyartout

That was me, two days ago, at my job as a private security officer at an upscale gated community. I was trying to feel the Christmas vibe, but it was hard. Now, I am at my mom’s house in the … Continue reading →

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Pugly girls… the final chapter…

Posted on December 24, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Yes, that is a baby Pug looking at herself in a metal mixing bowl. I just have a few pictures left from when my daughter babysat the two baby Pug girls belong to my wife’s sister over the Thanksgiving day … Continue reading →

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A Christmas gift for my wife…

Posted on December 21, 2018 by pouringmyartout

I used my last real Mexican Fan Palm log, not to make a tiki, but to make a present for my wife. It looks small, but it is about three-and-a-half-feet-tall. It has our initials carved into it with a plus … Continue reading →

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Pugly girls… part 3…

Posted on December 9, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Just more random pictures of the two baby pug girls we babysat over the Thanksgiving holidays. The good news is, you get to see baby pugs. And their surprisingly large tongues… The bad news is that you also get to … Continue reading →

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Pugly girls… part 2…

Posted on November 28, 2018 by pouringmyartout

So, I guess I better start telling the story of our weird Thanksgiving week. As I mentioned, there were multiple trips to the emergency room… three to be precise. My younger daughter Mollie, seen above, home from college for the … Continue reading →

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Pugly girls… part 1…

Posted on November 25, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Okay, this is a long story… involving trips to the emergency room… (yes, that is plural)… dogs of various sizes, a crazy Thanksgiving holiday, one of my amazing daughters, and some other stuff. But the vortex of this story swirls … Continue reading →

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Monkey on a stick; (or) How to mess with the other security guards while at work…

Posted on October 28, 2018 by pouringmyartout

Oh yeah, you haven’t really lived until you hear a call going out over the radios for the private security officer at the South gate to go outside the guard house and see if there is a monkey climbing the … Continue reading →

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Me and Mollie’s marvelous magical macro madness… the final chapter…

Posted on October 26, 2018 by pouringmyartout

That is a macro photograph of my daughter’s eye that I took. As we proved in an earlier post, she has my eyes. Ironically, that means she also has an eye for art. She has Art’s eyes. Seems like there … Continue reading →

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