More Over Zach Baggins . . .

Finn C. has just one upped you at the ghost hunting game. Now if he could only work on his ghost taunting, he should have his own TV show.

Doran, the Siege Tower

Veronica and I finished Tommy's late Christmas gift this past weekend. We did Doran as a Neo-Assyrian siege engine and so I translated it into Akkadian in Neo-Assyrian script/ductus. If I do say so myself, I think she did a great job with the art. We'll bring it with us next time we come to visit. Hope you like it!

For inspiration, we mostly copied from Ashurnasirpal II's palace reliefs of siege engines at work. See below:

Back by Popular Demand

The bots who sometimes post comments on our blog and are trying to become self aware have demanded another Alex Jones video so they can better understand what it means to be human. Maybe they will have mercy on me during the robot apocalypse now that I have posted this . . .

Cactus Care Emergency

Tonight the kitties bit the top off of my cactus and peed in it. I am trying to save it's life, but I don't know what to do. With the annual cactus care conference in Montreal months away, I am in desperate need of advice from a cacti enthusiast.