Here we go again. Just getting ready for this years art. The following story is continued from last years home page.
Click here for link. I want to ad that I have since made two more World War II soldiers and I am getting better at it. The first one took about two hours to complete. The next one took about 1 hour and the one I made this morning took about one half hour. I am bummed out about the missing arm in one of them. I tried to contact the seller today but they are from China. If I can get this resolved I will provide a link to where I got them. It does not look like it is going to happen. Here is a photo of my newest soldiers.
Click here top of the page to see it. As of this morning we have no internet. We are working with our service rep but it may take days. We got back online last night with only a little time before bed time. As a Sicilian I am loyal to my business relationships and have long appreciated
Viasat as my internet provider. This is the only time we have had a service agent have to come to our home in many years. When you do not have the internet when you have been dependent on it for a long time; it is like not having a television to a average person. I am sorry I have not updated here for a while. I am hard at work, usually; on my political blog in the volatile times we live in. Every weekend I like to do a best of my representatives email list emails, there. I am also hard at work doing art for my next years offering for this blog. It is going to be great; Lord willing. As always when a worker comes to my home I always try to give them art.
Click here to view this art I did on the back of my business cards. Also I made this dish that I consider to be innovative.
Click here for a photo of it and the art on the top of the page. I toped Fritos with a tuna salad I made. Then I put cheese on it and melted it on in the toaster oven. I was really good. Also I have a photo of my wife's birthday presents and our anniversary and my dogs birthday presents.
Click here top of page to view. We rounded his birthday off to that day since the SPCA was not able to provide his birthday. Yes we were married on my wife's birthday. In 2088 we will be married 40 years officially. I still want credit for the over 2 years we lived together before we got married. The first 2 years are the toughest on the relationship; after that it was all good. It did not help my wife joining the Army after we were married for 7 years. Those years were very hard on us both. I always tell my wife I was never happy until I met you. That is some of the reasons I do not have time to update here as much as I would like to; not to mention all the never ending chores I have to do to maintain a comfortable existence for my wife and I and my dog. We are happy though and that is all that matters. Isaiah 26:3 “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. Did you know that REO Speedwagon did not have a good singer until Kevin Cronin. I have listened to the old albums before but never realized how bad the old singer was. Sorry but it seems as though he ruins the old songs brought to life by Kevin Cronin. Kevin Cronin is so enthusiastic and full of life when he sings those old great songs. Too bad we can not turn back time and make Kevin Cronin the original singer. At least we have those old concerts we can watch. I am going to search for my footage of them in concert and watch it again; this time with a new found appreciation. I am working my finger magic again with my art. I am even amazing myself sometimes with the art that comes out of me; in the form of artwork. Remember what I always say about my art; it is not about talent it is about ability to go the places most people do not tread. There is no such word as talent to me. I have discovered even though I do not like the singers as much as I like Kevin Cronin; from REO Speedwagon the music and vocals are still very good. It just seems all music from the 1970's that was popular then is the best rock music ever made. I just want to ask people to please pray for Iran. I have been praying to myself allot and will pray as long as it take until the killings stop. I have a real love and appreciation for all the people of the middle east. I hope they can change their countries into the free democracy they all deserve and will love. John 14:14 - If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. I love this scripture and it seems so popular with people as well.: Matthew 17:20 “And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
Click here to read about Iran and the Bible.
Click here for a great Free Iran image.
Click here for a image of the protest. We are having a BLT party this week on our weekend together. We are having
Goldminer sourdough bread with that. Goldminer sourdough bread is our favorite bread ever. I try to avoid bread and pasta as much as posable because it cause overloading to our systems. Goldminer sourdough bread is absolutely the best bread available for purchase at the Kroger. I also I love the simplicity of the
BLT. I grew up on it. You can not find too many restaurants that do not serve
BLTs. AI says.: Yes, the BLT is a classic and iconic American staple. This popular sandwich, named for its primary ingredients of bacon, lettuce, and tomato, is a mainstay on restaurant menus and a common comfort food in homes across the U.S.. I like the amount of vegetables in it. We use lots of tomatoes and bagged shredded lettuce. Sea salt and pepper on it; pushes it even more over the edge.
Helman's mayonnaise is a absolute must. It brings back all those memories of eating in great American restaurant's.
Click here to view the image of this great BLT meal here on my Smörgåsbord page. I was talking to someone in chat about something I ordered on Amazon. I wanted a pair of warm slippers and the Amazon page kept defaulting my size too small because I have ordered sneakers at that size. I wanted a larger size because I like to wear multiple soaks underneath; especially thick my wool socks. The person in chat said you are the nicest person I have chatted with all day. I realized what it was and responded immediately with; "it's the Lord". Then I realized why. We are having a storm now and I am always in prayer mode when there is a storm. It changed me so much that the long time consuming chat session; did not bother me at all. I am so amazed at the Lord's presence in my life; it can never be ignored or forgotten. 1 Peter 5:6 - 5:7 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. Sometimes I hate playing my usual video games. I spent most of my day saying I do not care if I play video games at all today. Even though I did this; I got less artwork done today than I have for almost a month now. I blame my reluctance to play video games on that. I have a routine I go through everyday and when that routine suffers my whole day suffers. Terrible day. I did manage to upload a video I took yesterday. Maybe I should just take a week and not use the internet. Think of it. It would not be good; in my opinion, for anyone that might stumble across my internet contributions and be enlightened or swayed for the betterby it.
Click here to watch. This video is to illustrate how cold it is here. My dog normally likes the snow. He rolls around in it and eats it. He usually likes to do burnout in snow and kick it up as he runs. In this video all he wants is to go back inside. That sound is me on guitar. You like that guitar? I just have a way with electric guitar. I took lessons as a child from about 6th grade to 7th grade. My family thought I could play guitar because my sister had a folk guitar and my family listened to me play it without lessons an where blown away. Who cares. In my opinion anyone can play a sissy folk guitar. Once you venture to electic guitar it is a whole other world. You can make your fingers bleed on a electric guitar like a real rock and roll maniac. Blood all over that fret. Unless you make yourself bleed on a skateboard or on a
sportbike (one word not a misspelling) or on a electric guitar with the amp turned all the way up with headphones on blasting your own ear drums out; you are nothing to me. LOL! Anyway; I hope you like my favorite dog in the whole world and his video.I am sorry I said people should bleed while they play electric guitar. Although it does happen. I have seen concert footage of this happening on stage. You can look them up on YouTube. I also know many people are hurt and even killed on skateboards and sportbikes all the time and did not mean to make light of that. I think this cold weather is getting to me to joke about such things. In all things that may harm me I trust in the Lord to protect me. Here is a goods scripture about that.: Isaiah 41:10 - Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. I am getting really good at staying warm these days with all this cold weather and hope all of us around here is doing the same. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 - What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Things are going good as always. I am staying very busy now that I am in art mode. It leaves little time to do anything it seems like. I am updating my political blog so much now that I do not have time to update here. Sonner or latter I will finish all my hard work on my art and go back to taking it a little easy here. It is never easy though. I have allot of responsibility's here that never end. Life requires work it does not matter if you are retired or not. From the moment you get out of bed in the morning to the moment you go to bed at night we must work. I have always needed the Lord all my life even when God and the Bible were far from my mind. As I get older I realize that I need him more than ever to help me get thought the day. Well I am off to update my political blog now some of which has to do with Christian persecution. Christians should realize that we have so much power now before the rapture and rise up against any persecutions where ever they are in the world. I like this photo from Bangladesh;
click here to view. This one of my favorite movie/albums.:
click here. It is no wonder there are Christians in such a openminded place. Songs like "My Sweet Lord" and
"That's the Way God Planned It" by the great Christian rock artist of that time Mr. Billy Preston used to really insprire me to get closer to the Lord. And of course the culmination of the entire album when a huge amount of the best musicians of that time all join in for the song Bangladesh. I found a limk to The Concert for Bangladesh (film).: Click here. Here is a link to the album.: Click here. The movie and the album was very inspirational to me as a young Christian in my early twenty's. I guess I felt inspired to know that people I really admired in the artistic community that were like minded to me were Christians too. Like I always say it was Bob Dylan and his saved album that really blew me away.. Click here. It came out one year after I gave my life to the Lord. Here is a image of Bob when he played the saved album in concert in 1980, Click here. I have heard great Christian albums by Billy Preston and Al Green and Dr. John or Leon Russell in the early 1980's; that I purchased. I can not find these albums online. I imagine there are many more great Christian albums out there that may not be able to be found online. I am not saying they can not be found online; I am just saying it is difficult. I think maybe because these albums were not popular. I think there are many more great albums by very popular artist's out there that are not easily found online. I read a article about the Bob Dylan Saved album while typing this post; that Bob was actually preaching The Gospel in every concert he played with the Saved album. "In the late 1970s, Dylan converted to Christianity. In November 1978, guided by his friend Mary Alice Artes, Dylan made contact with the Vineyard School of Discipleship. Vineyard Pastor Kenn Gulliksen recalled: "Larry Myers and Paul Emond went over to Bob's house and ministered to him. He responded by saying yes, he did in fact want Christ in his life. And he prayed that day and received the Lord". From January to March 1979, Dylan attended Vineyard's Bible study classes in Reseda, California." From HERE. I think Robert Zimmerman was saved before then. In his movie Dont Look Back he hints at Christianity and the Bible. I was doing my art two days ago and realized that I forgot it was valentines day. We got some flowers at Kroger to celebrate. If you buy flowers; this is the time to buy them. I took some photos of them. I would have just got the small one but my wife went crazy and got two. The big one smells the best. It is a soothing experience smelling flowers. I made these graphic too. I also made some custom graphics with a 3D Program. View them all
HERE. This paragraph was updated February 13th 2026.