Entries by Don

Home Maintenance Tips for Spring

Gnome Gnews – Spring Cleaning Edition 5 Spring Maintenance Tips that are Charmingly Easy   Life is beautiful when it’s well maintained. Practical Home and Garden Maintenance Tips from the Idyllic Gnome Glades.     Clean Vegetation Around Your Air Conditioner(AC) Condenser. Problem: Do you live outside the perfect Gnome Glades where temperatures rise above […]

Archibald Penguin No. 1

Introducing Our New Serial! Who Ate All the Fish? featuring Archibald Penguin, Our Bird, The Famed Detective. The Cheeky Penguin who Loves Fish as Almost as Much as He Loves Fighting Crime! The Players: Polar Bear —  A Hungry Animal The Walrus —  A Certain Tusked Mammal Seal —  A Happy Fellow Pelican —  A Creature […]

I’m a Work at Home Dad

I’m a Work at Home Dad No, I Don’t Wear Pajamas All Day! I Work at Home!! I Don’t Stay at Home!!! !!&$@+!@=!#!   In 2016, once a month, Happy Bungalow will be pulling back the curtain on the wood shop to show what life is really like owning a small / family / crafty […]

The Bison: Nomadic Wanderer

The Bison.  Noble Ungulate wanderer traveling across continents. Originally from Europe, the Old Country, the bison arrived in the New Country millennia before it was known as America (1). In the great open land where, one day, meritocracy would throw off the shackles of European aristocracy. For in this new land it did not matter […]

Where Do People Come From?

Where do people come from? Our children are always interested in where they come from. We do our best to explain. We show them baby pictures and old scrapbooks. This leads to more questions. So we speak of parents, then of parent’s parents, and so on. Eventually our children ask the question that we’ve all […]

The Camel, Nomadic Dessert Wonderer

The Camel, Nomadic Dessert Wonderer I’ve always been a bit unclear on those words that sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings.  Are they homonyms?  Something like that, I forget.  But what I’m 100% certain about is the camel.  You know, the dessert wonderer. The animal who dreams of sweet deliciousness.  Cake, […]

The T-Rex and the Chicken

A Tale of Distant Relations -and- A Consideration of Abbreviations     Once there lived the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex. King of all the dinosaurs. The beast who made up for the smallness of his arms with the doubled ferocity of his ripping bite. Or so we assume. Scientists are hard at work figuring out all […]

Hello World

Hello World! Hi world, I’m Don. Nice of you to stop by. We’re introducing ourselves (myself really) as though this is our first blog post, but This is not our first blog post. We’ve been at it for four plus years now, with varying regularity. But we’ve never had a real solid plan for what […]