The second Saturday of September is Pie Day in Pie Town, New Mexico. This small community (population 186) has earned a reputation for offering excellent pies for sale. It started as a crossroads community – a stop for people traveling west – and is now popular with tourists. This Saturday is Pie Day. I would like to stop by the Pie-O-Neer cafe where they serve pie, “that’s it.” It sounds like my kind of place. Here is a story about the town at Cowboys & Indians magazine.
DeForest Kelly, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner as they appeared in various episodes of Gunsmoke.
Star Trek first aired on this date in 1966
Gunsmoke ran from 1955 to 1975
What could be better than a butter cow?
The Ohio State Fair this year featured a life size rendition of the Apollo 11 moon landing to commemorate its 50th anniversary. Also included were the three Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil Armstrong (an Ohio boy), Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins. They were joined by a butter cow and calf. Collectively, the display used 2,200 pounds of butter.
“Luckily, each of the Ohio-based sculptors has an area of expertise. Balz, a plumber by trade, is the face and anatomy guy. Dairy farmer Matt Davidson handled the cow. West Chester resident Tammy Buerk worked on the calf. And Columbus resident Erin Swearingen, who loves detail work, crafted the Apollo 11 logo. The team also had an intern: Karen Tharp, who’s pursuing an MFA at Ohio State University, helped detail the spacesuits.”
Conceived as an idea to coverup unwanted tattoos, artist Esther Garcia creates floral tattoos on rich black backgrounds. Beautiful, but that’s a lot of ink.
Suzanne Jongmans is an artist who uses packaging materials that we throw away to recreate portraits reminiscent of renaissance art. Her photographs recall the images of the Old Masters. She says,” “The idea of making something out of nothing changes our look on reality…Most people throw that [foam] away. I make clothing out of it; foam is my textile.” see more of her work here
Something else to do with your bubblewrap.
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I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 