My friends sometimes harp on me for picking on other companies who try to stretch their services over into my vertical market; most commonly telephone company employees, your Internet Service Provider’s employees, and most often electricians. For the record, I don’t do the same to them. If you have an electrical question more complicated than [...]

  Preface: The original title of this post was “Troy Bilt Warranty: Bravo or Bull?” I started writing this letter today to send to the respective companies, and to post here on my blog. What started out as pure disappointment and frustration with two companies however turned into stunned amazement at the level of customer [...]

This is my letter to Congress, the President of the United States, my senator, governor, mayor, police chief, and neighbor: WHAT ARE WE AS A NATION, THINKING? Today it comes out in national news that since Republicans and Democrats can’t come to a decision about what to do about our debt ceiling, we’re going to [...]

First and foremost, let me preface this blog entry with the fact that these are my own personal opinions. I own a variety of guns and have hundreds of friends who each have their own reason that theirs is the best. If you’re a gun-nut, militia-enthusiast, or have your own set of white sheets hidden [...]

I received an email from Frankie’s owners, asking me to post this to the blog. It say much better than I can how they feel and their thoughts. I told them I’d share it here with everyone. “It is times like this when words are just not enough. There are so many thoughts going through [...]

I know this is the tenth year of the Scooby Pig Pickin’ and it’s late notice but I’ve got a major update for everyone for this year’s pig pickin. We’re not “cancelling” the pig pickin’ but we are going to move the date to a time as yet to be determined. Why? Well there are [...]

This post won’t seem strange years down the road, but on the heels of my last series of posts it seems depressingly repetitive in the extreme. My partner Tim and I have been working together since 2004. We’ve worked at two different companies together, literally travelled the world together on projects, and had each other’s [...]

Just a week ago I was contacted by a friend who had volunteered her time to sit with Frankie. She called to ask if I could come photograph her for documentation of her healing. I was eager to meet this little one. I had seen something on Facebook about her. When I got there, I [...]

Here are some pictures of Frankie taken today at the clinic when we went in to check on her. Stay tuned for more info on the main blog post. You can read the whole story on Frankie by clicking here.  

Update 6/13/2011: This post has been updated from the original: Scroll to the bottom to see the interview. Since we have had so much worldwide interest in Frankie and so many hundreds of questions about her continued progress we thought of a neat idea to address them all! Tonight I’m going to do a recorded [...]