Borderline Sword Lessons Cancelled Until Further Notice

 November 12, 2024

   I guess I never really realized just how much of my life revolves around the border region. For one thing my mother was born in the bootheel of New Mexico.

Lordsburg, New Mexico

This was when her parents—my grandparents—lived in the Animas Valley in the twenties, and later at Steins Pass.

Bobbi Guess Bell, age 20

We are awarding the True Westerner Award for 2025 to this worthy cat.

Jay Dusard by Scott Baxter

   And, Jay lives outside Douglas on the Arizona border.

   Sometimes old photos from the border area speak to me.

Sword Class Cancelled

   I'll bet that's the last time he volunteered to give her swinging saber lessons.

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Old Vaquero In Moonlight"

   What happens when you do a Whip Out without any expectation as to where it might go?

Daily Whip Out: "Colossal Ice Flow"

   Yes, I pulled that one right out of my rectum. I had no idea what it was until I let it dry, turned it sideways and saw the artic up close and personal.

   So, I've got that going for me.

"I went into an antique store and they wouldn't let me leave."

—Andy Huggins, standup comedian, 74