Certified Local Fall Festival

Certified Local Fall Festival

Saturday, Nov. 12th, 10 am – 4 pm at Duck and Decanter

Laboratory5 items are donated at the Local First Certified Local Fall Festival. Note cards are available in the raffle and a small painting in the silent auction. Stop by, shop, eat and win something!

This is the painting up for auction. It is acrylic 12 x 16 and called Hut Houses

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Pigeon Trap

In our neighborhood in North Tempe we have a serious pigeon problem. This is a new issue and it is the talk of our street. We are very close with all of our neighbors, it is like the 1950’s here and we are all curious about why now, how and what to do about it. There are owls on rooftops and porches and talk of BB guns versus pellet guns, traps and other ideas I just shouldn’t speak of.  So when I saw this beautiful Antique Pigeon Trap I was seriously tempted but then I thought it is too pretty to let those pests in. I like the idea though so we’ll see . . .

On Paul Auster

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it,

for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”

—  Paul Auster
Paul Auster is one of my favorite authors. I do love many of his books and his curious way of writing but I also love that some of his books were flops. I feel like that proves he is writing from a place that is real. Not all of our ideas are hits but as long as we are keeping it real we are real.