Author Archives: Virtual Brush Box

Awareness of the outside world. CBS Sports: Nick Saban retires: Seven-time national championship-winning coach, 72, exits Alabama after 17 seasons, Saban is widely considered to be the greatest college football coach of all time, Patterson, 10 January 2024. AL.com: Report: Alabama’s Nick Saban is highest-paid coach in college football, Oct 2023. I include the latterContinue reading “Charging About, Dog Update”

Awareness of the outside world. BBC: 2023 confirmed as world’s hottest year on record, Poynting & Rivault, 9th January 2024. Previous posted about heat [Homewood Forest Preserve, Photography] ~~~ Choices in horse buying. Older Horse with Experience vs Young Horse with Potential. All of the following are generalizations. There are exceptions to everything. I have noContinue reading “Horse Search Variables, Age”

Awareness of the outside world. I may need to make a permanent link to this. LA Times: How not to say the wrong thing, Silk and Goldman, 2013. Article is old; advice is still good. Comfort goes inward, venting goes outward. Hat tip to F. ~~~ Kicking strap installed. Milton was a star. [What’s UpContinue reading “Milton Meets Kicking Strap, Again”

Awareness of the outside world. Supreme Court: Calendars and Lists, includes Session Beginning January 08, 2024 (PDF). ~~~ TransformerAcademy DrivingAlabama Charity Championship Horse ShowSunday 22 October 2023 Terry Young Photographer When I did the show recap, I realize I did not have a pro photo for driving. The Instant Download option made that disconcertingly easyContinue reading “A Last Look Back at 2023, Driving”

Art of the outside world. Anthony Butera is 3 January 2024 for Workman’s Art Page-A-Day Gallery Calendar 2024. “The subjects he paints are primarily in architecture and nature … His style is representational and sometimes his work has an impressionistic quality.” AB: About. I chose this calendar because I know diddly squat about art. CouldContinue reading “Fractal Alphabet M, Graphic Art”

Blog friends are awesome friends. The hat maker who included these in my order sent me an entire bag! Swizzels: Parma Violets. [Cold Weather Clothing] Not To Recap I had a whole slate of recap posts set up for the last week in December. Then I read an online discussion that said recaps should come onceContinue reading “To Recap Or Not To Recap, State of the Blog”

Awareness of the outside world. “The Twelfth Night is the night before Epiphany, and the twelfth day is Epiphany itself.” Boston Public Library: The Origins and Practice of Holidays: Twelfth Night, Gurpurab Guru Gobindh Singh, Epiphany, Día de los Reyes, Bhagat, 2019. ~~~ Swim supplies from Dick’s Sporting Goods. Daily Mile Pasture. Morning walks withContinue reading “In Which I Walk, Do A Few Other Things, And Have Trouble With Numbers, State of The Fitness”