The collected miscellany of 28 years at the Pommel House and nine years of Pommelhouse.com.

History: first-hand written accounts of 19th century life, faithfully transcribed, plus old letters and photographs
Dogs: all manner of dog foolishness, dog biographies, and dog show stories;
Food: favorite dishes and recipes
Garden: slideshows, projects and bird lists

Plus travel logs and fiction long and short.

Novels

The Made-up Man won Best Mystery in the 2012 Houston Writer's Guild Genre Contest. The link takes you to Authonomy (a website run by HarperCollins Publishers), where you can read about half of the book online. You can read without registering, but registration is free, and if you register, you can comment on the book or review it, rate it -- six stars! : ) -- and back it. Contact me if you want to read the whole book.

2012:
BROWN SASH
Breathing the 108
Ten Important Points

The notebook compiles everything required for a black sash:
Main Notebook Page.

Chicken Update

We've applied for the 2012 Funky Chicken Coop Tour. Also, one of our hens has turned out to be a rooster. We don't mind -- he's a rock star.

Is he handsome, or what?

The Year of the NIGHT ANIMALS

I never knew how much wildness Wily kept at bay until she retired to the deck and watched the Night Animals reclaim the back yard.

VISITS WITH KATIE

In memory of my good friend Katie Gray, and of many a long evening whiled away, when I was young and lived in a rented house on Caswell Avenue, in the Austin of the nineteen seventies. What I’d give to sit out on the porch with you again, Katie!

Weegie's Excellent
DOG SHOW ADVENTURE

After Wily's Brilliant Career in competitive obedience, we had the notion to buy a show quality American Eskimo puppy and try for a breed championship. It took us two years, and we traveled from Lake Charles to Denton to San Antonio to Dallas and back again. We made fools of ourselves more than once, but in the end, we did what we set out to do: we put that "CH" in front of her registered name.

		The New Rose Garden - After four months of hauling rock and dirt, we have 50 new roses.

		Watercolors - A very small gallery of recent paintings in a new (to me) medium.

		Sheepdog Trials - In a field just outside the Village of Fort Augustus, we watched a local trial.

		James Orr's Scotland - In the lowlands of Dumfries and Galloway, I did a bit of sleuthing...

Novels

Chicken Update

The Year of the NIGHT ANIMALS

VISITS WITH KATIE

Weegie's ExcellentDOG SHOW ADVENTURE

Weegie's Excellent
DOG SHOW ADVENTURE