The Last Word

This comment was made by a wise old gentlemen last weekend at the Farmers Market… and I meant it.  I feel like when things are slow at the market that it is my duty to entertain the troops.. er vendors to keep their spirits up.

I told one of the men, “The last time my wife and I had an argument I had her on her knees begging.”  He looked a little shocked and said, “You did.  Really?”  I said, “She sure was, she was begging me to come out from under the bed so she could get to me.”

I really think his wife thought it was funnier than he did.

I really hope yall are all havin’ a good week.  Remember I am posting Mon-Fri at the Gatorhead site at http://gatorhead.wordpress.com

Be Nice

One of the greatest lessons I have learned is that I am not responsible for how people act toward me.  I am, however, responsible to how I respond to them.  I read somewhere that the best way to deal with people talking bad about you behind your back was to live your life in such a way that no one would believe them anyway.

Thankfully I can’t think of very many enemies that I have.  Hopefully I will be like my dad. He doesn’t have an enemy in the world.  He is 87 so he has outlived them all.

Getting Your Attention

I reckon there is a whole lot of truth in this, whether it is a parent dealing with their kids or even a doctor and patient.  No matter how often we are warned to fasten our seatbelts nothing inspires us like seeing a road block up ahead.

I guess the best thing would be for us to listen to good advice and think of the scary things that could happen if we don’t heed it.

Maybe I’ll just quit tryin’ to give advice and start tryin’ to scare folks.

Another Great Week

In spite of the visit to the Doctor (who’s prognosis was mostly “All we can do is try to keep him functional) it has been a good week.

Someone last week at the Farmers Market suggested that I make some jewelry in the local school colors (slapped my own forehead and wondered what have I been thinkin’).  The Kosciusko Whippets colors are maroon and white (same as the Mississippi State Bulldogs) so I might get double attention for them.  I actually sold several pieces today in the maroon and white colors.

The great thing about being creative is that one idea leads to another.  As I was workin’ on this new style of bracelet I found some maroon and white buttons.  The buttons sparked an idea and I decided that I would try some real colorful buttons for the younger crowd.  I am hoping that the button bracelets become the next big thing.

I had a good day today at the market and sold a little jewelry.  I enjoy visiting with the people and socializing with the other vendors at the market.  It was hot all week which is normally a problem for me but there was a good breeze all morning and I made it fine.

I was supposed to post twice on this site this week but got busy and only posted once. I did post Mon-Friday on my other site and intend to keep that up for awhile.

Don’t forget to check out the site at http://gatorhead.wordpress.com

 

Makin’ Life Count

I wrote a good long blog earlier and the computer ate it so all I am going to say now is this is really how I feel.  I will try to edit this later and maybe add some more details of what I have been doing to add life to my years.

 

Mixture of Comics

This is the last page in the comic book I printed.  I hoped it would generate some more traffic to my comics.  One of the best things about compiling this book was that it gave me a chance to redraw and rewrite some of my older stuff and it also stimulated me to create some new comics using some of my old characters.  Hopefully you will be seeing more of Hank, Buster and Mildred interacting in some new strips.  Don’t worry I’m sure Shirley the Monkey will be back around too.

I touched up The Ladies at the gossip fence a little too and will be using them some in the future.  Don’t forget though that I am moving my comics all to the Gatorhead page at http://gatorhead.wordpress.com  Hopefully I will still be updating here on Tuesdays and Thursdays with some postcards, sayings and some blogs of what I’ve been thinkin’.  I will probably even throw in a Saturday when I have some jewelry pictures or some kind of news update.

Creatures of Habit will be back tomorrow on the Gatorhead Page.

Hank the Handy Man-Shirley You Jest

This is the last page in the story for the Comic Book.  There is another page that I will post Thursday that is not part of the story.  It is just a mixture of some Gatorhead comics that I put in the book hoping to drive a little traffic to my Gatorhead site at http://gatorhead.wordpress.com  I thought you guys might be gettin’ a little lonesome on here.

HANK THE HANDY MAN- Name That Monkey

This is the next to the last page in the Hank Mini Comic featuring Hank and Buster.  I have one more page for the book and it contains some samples of some of my other comics.  I will be making a .pdf soon of this and it will be available.  I will let you know how to get it when I figure it out.

Bo.

Hank The Handy Man- Parental Responsibility

I have enjoyed going back over the Hank The Handy Man comics.  While I was redrawing and coloring some of them I got some inspiration and actually created some new ones.  I am going to work a little on Mildred’s interactions with her baby Boy, Buster.

I also made a couple of Creatures and Habit comics and I haven’t forgotten the Geezers of Geezerhood.  One of the benefits of having several different casts of characters is that when you run dry on one set you can usually have some new ideas on the other set.

Ideas are not a big problem with me.  Discipline and getting down to work on them is my problem.  I spent the morning one day last week writing down some ideas and going over some old lists.  I have got to get in the habit of writing down things that I need to remember…now where is that piece of paper with my name on it.

Bo

Rebuffed

This has been a great week and I have been busy trying to add some life to my years.

I haven’t given a Molly update in a while but she is fine today.  She was sick one day this week and had us kind of worried but she is fine now.  Molly loves people and I don’t mean just some people, she loves anyone who comes to our house.  Jeremy Burkes, my good friend and fellow cartoonist (creator of JBSToons http://jbstoons.wordpress.com/ came by for a jewelry making lesson this week.  Molly met him at the door and began to jump all over him trying to love him (even though she had never seen him in her life) to a point to where we had to put her in another room.  She was not a happy camper.

Jeremy had expressed an interest in making jewelry and I showed him a few things that should help him get started.  I feel that the best investment you can make is in the lives of other people.  I had someone one ask me if I would give lessons in makin’ jewelry and I told them I couldn’t because I didn’t know what I was doin’ myself.  I hope I did Jeremy some good.

My buffer had run dry and I spent a couple of days this week workin’ on some new stuff as well as coloring some of the Hank The Handy Man comics.  I completed the ones that I printed in my mini-comic book and I even made a couple of new Hank comics.  I also made a few more for KRUD-TV, Mildred and Edna, and Creatures of Habit.  Along with the remakes of the Hospital Humor that gives me a couple of weeks of material for both sites (at my regular posting rate).

I update this site every Tuesday and Thursday.

I update Gatorhead Comics every Mon. Wed. and Friday except when I can’t for some reason.  You can find it at http://gatorhead.wordpress.com

My buffer was empty and now it is pretty full.  I guess I’ve been rebuffed.

That is what I’ve been doin’ and thinkin’.  What about you?

Bo