Just STUFF you might enjoy.

01/01/2012
Back to MARBLES HOME PAGE!   Buffalo skull.
Jake just wants a little bitty bite of dinner, please!

 
 

 Sammy, the photo critic
snoozing on the job.

He was a dumper kitty
with a messed up hip.
Now he RULES!...even the dogs.
Mom's old cat, Kitty Cat, takes life a lot more seriously.
HE has a PURPOSE.
Next time you vote, remember that Kitty Cat TOLD you to do so!		  
     
We feed a lot of birds year round.

Helps with the catfood bill...

JUST KIDDING!
     


"Straight as an Arrow"
Two friends sit chatting about the next hunt while manufacturing beautiful weapons.

 ARTIST friend, Doug Hall, does wonderful paintings of the American Indian, post contact, eastern tribes. Doug has "lived the life" himself. He lived in a tipi 2 years while building his first log cabin. He has been living in the loft of his horse barn for several years but has just completed a new cabin with hewed logs. Will get pictures soon.  See more of Doug's work at
www.doug-hall.com.
We sell giclees of his work. (Framed, printed on canvas limited editions.)

 


"The Geographers"
"Look, seriously now, I am telling you that the trail goes around the point of this bluff and then down to Long River. That's where I saw all the black squirrels!"

Doug and Mr. Dobbins
having morning coffee.

Our view each morning.
Welcome to the Ozarks.

 


DINNER !!!
(for you city folk, this is a wild turkey just like the Indians and the pilgrims totally enjoyed!)


Moth on Mom's bedroom wall.
Shhh...he thinks he is hidden!

Some friends had a
horseback wedding.
     

Mom gets a lunch break from bagging marbles for you!

Lois Benson
December 1926 ~ September 2011
The house is very empty now.
 

Here is Mom with our "yard pet", Smilla, the blind one. 

Smilla is old mare who was on her way to the killers many years ago because she is blind.

I traded some scrap metal for her and she's been part of the family and neighborhood ever since.

Smilla goes up and down our private road; in and out of the yard. She listens for my footsteps and stamps her front hoof when she wants breakfast.

Now she is also getting deaf
but no less clever at managing me!
Here's my first attempt at a photo collage. It is Mom and we were scouting the creek in the winter time when the rattleheadedcoppermocassins are fast asleep in some deep hole. She is 83 in this picture and was having fun posing in front of the huge Sycamore tree.

 
BABY praying mantis! He was almost dead so I gave him a drop of water on my finger tip. Then he wouldn't leave! He would jump back on my finger anytime I got close enough. This went on for THREE days. Then he was gone. Hope he made it!

This little guy got trapped. I rescued it. Soon the hummer was drinking from drops on my finger tip. No fear at all.
     
     
     
     
 
Jake is done!

Guess that's all for now, folks!