by vrtapscott | Feb 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
You know, bread is the bane of any carbohydrate counter. Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s not still a favorite. I think most carbohydrate dieters go straight for the bread when they can. Or ice cream. But ice cream is a whole nother subject (see ‘A...
by vrtapscott | Jan 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
Happy New Year – again! Any of you that have read Jane’s adventures knows that a lot of the sub-stories revolve around Olive’s pursuit of being more and more human, and of course, the trouble she runs into as she does become more human. But more and...
by vrtapscott | Dec 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Olive and I wandered through the snow-covered city of Leavenworth, WA. Looking left and right, the entire area was a riot of color. Lights of all shapes and sizes blazed from the bushes, the trees, the rooftops. Even the people. Many of them were wearing ropes or...
by vrtapscott | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Protection Racket – A Stevie Story Stevie sighed once again as she wandered the aisles at Home Despot, looking for some final bit of gear that would make this project just come out perfect. She rifled through some pistols, took a shot at grabbing a new set of...
by vrtapscott | Oct 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Chapter 3 The Main Event We made our way through the straggly grass and stepped into the viney area that was the pumpkin patch. The ground was cold and a little damp, and I didn’t much like the idea of sitting in the dirt. I magicked us a couple chairs. I was getting...
by vrtapscott | Oct 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Chapter 2 “Toons.” – Eddie Valiant We stepped through into a whole different world. The sun was shining, and I could actually see it hovering up there. It was just a big circle with light coming out of it, but nothing that was too bright to look at. The...
by vrtapscott | Oct 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Chapter 1 All the World’s a Stage Olive and I were sitting in the living room, snarfing popcorn and watching TV. It being near Halloween, we’d decided on some holiday related cartoons, the real classics. Which means we wound up watching, among other things, “It’s the...
by vrtapscott | Oct 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ever think about what goes into smelling? It’s an interesting question, really. I mean, the human nose is very sensitive to different types of smells. I mean, really sensitive. And there’s thousands of little nodes that do the detecting. It’s kind of weird to think...
by vrtapscott | Oct 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
As the song speaks about clouds illusions, and of course I can’t say much more than that to keep copyright from kicking up its ugly head, it makes me think about how we look at things. When we look at clouds from the ground, we see shapes and sizes, mostly flat. We...
