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The Early Bird Gets The Worm – @robblightfoot

This piece is hard to appreciate from a single angle. It’s one of my Dad’s funnier pieces, and he won best of show in the Kern County Fair years ago.

This week’s humor column

http://anewscafe.com/2013/04/18/or-so-it-seems-as-seen-on-tv/

Metal Sculpture by Ron Pecarovich – Longhorn – @robblightfoot

Longhorn

This photo does not do justice to this piece. Unfortunately it was knocked off a shelf and one of the horns got bent. Dad’s hung up his torch, so it can’t be fixed. I console myself that the longhorns of old had to battle at times. This one is a veteran of urban combat.

http://anewscafe.com/2013/04/18/or-so-it-seems-as-seen-on-tv/

Metal Sculpture by Ron Pecarovich – @robblightfoot

Girl Chasing a Butterfly

Dad had a period where he worked in minutures. I’m lucky to have one of my favorites. He had to give up such small scale as he aged. I’ll share some other work soon where he’s working in a much larger format. His subjects varied.

Read this week’s humor column featuring my dad.

http://anewscafe.com/2013/04/18/or-so-it-seems-as-seen-on-tv/

What I Didn’t Tell You – 1 – @robblightfoot

Had some fun at my Dad’s expense this week. I did get his permission to retell the story.

I’ll be posting more of his artwork photos over the next few days. He’s more than a thousand miles away, but I think of him daily when I see his artwork surrounding us.

Here’s this week’s column over at Doni’s

http://anewscafe.com/2013/04/18/or-so-it-seems-as-seen-on-tv/

 

Lassen Peak

Lassen Peak as seen from Palo Cedro.

#AsSeenOnTV Lures My Dad @robblightfoot

I’ve decided that infomercials are the leading cause of dementia…

Here’s my latest column over at Doni’s anewscafe.

http://anewscafe.com/2013/04/18/or-so-it-seems-as-seen-on-tv/

 

Thanks! The Results Are In For #WalkAMile @robblightfoot

What with taxes and work… I didn’t follow-up with a thank you note to all who supported me in #walkamileinhershoes this year. Thanks to you, I raised $360 in donations.   (Link to list of all donors. Thank YOU, too!)

According to even organizer Jean King, the event raised about $22,600 for the Shasta Women’s Shelter and Family Justice Center. The top fundraiser was Chris Headrich,who  raised about $2,300 on his own. Impressive. Looks like I will return next year with a “Fish Net” stocking challenge. Stay tuned.

If you still would like to donate, try this link.

http://www.active.com/donate/walkamile/robblightfoot

Photo Robb and Redding Chief of Police, on right, Robert Paoletti

Now where did I put that? @robblightfoot

I’m going to the painful process of trying to thin my library, and this  image seems somehow appropriate.

The Taxman Cometh – @robblightfoot

Thirty minutes to midnight… and I’m wondering how many people are lined up outside the Post office.

Been there, done that. I can feel superior because I filed ELECTRONICALLY this year. But I still have my reservations about doing my taxes on the computer. True story… last year, I spend dozens of hours entering data into Turbo Tax. It was tedious work, and so I’d get up from time to time to take a brief walk, feeling sorry for myself, and wishing I’d done all this during the year instead of waiting until the last minute. I meditated on the fact that there is NOTHING less fun than doing taxes.

Each time returned to work, I’d find our cat Stormy, sleeping on the laptop for reasons known only to God. Once, I startled her, and  in her rapid departure she ripped several buttons off my keyboard. I learned there IS something less fun that doing taxes, it’s doing them on a computer that’s missing “E,” “R,” “T” and the “Enter” key.

Data entry slowed considerably.

In the midst of this, my daughter asked me if I could take a minute to do her simple little return. A 1040EZ? No problem. I whipped it out in just a few minutes,.  But when I resumed work I found that my return had vanished. Since my daughter’s first name starts with the same initial mine does, the computer had replaced ALL my data with hers. Of course it warned me that I was overwriting a file, but I didn’t realize what the warning was telling me.

Frantic, because I had just a day to go before all this was due, I went online to the Turbo Tax helpline. I learned two things:

1. There were dozens of people who’d had the same thing happen.

2. There was one solution…. You type the data in ALL OVER AGAIN.

This gave a whole new meaning to the term “taxing experience.”

I pounded away at the keyboard until the wee hours, printed the return–I couldn’t e-file because it had mysterious errors that I couldn’t fix–and had them lock the doors behind me in the Post Office lobby.

By comparison, this year’s three boxes of receipts and records was a piece of cake. I just made sure that the files had different names…. and kept the cat off the keyboard.