Fact to fiction

I rarely do this. I hardly ever look for a photo of a real building and "copy" it into a novel. But this time I just had to find a house that figures importantly in the novel I'm writing, and this is it, although I've made some changes. This is the old Spring Hill Ranch House that's now part of the a national prairie park in the Flint Hills of Kansas. You can't see it in this photo, but to the left of this house there's a 3-story stone barn that I put in another book. Up the highway to the right, there's a one-story schoolhouse sitting all by its lonesome on top of a cold windy hill. I haven't used it yet, but its time may come. One of the ranches where my son works is a little past the schoolhouse. I love this area and I keep coming back to it for inspiration.

You writers out there, do you ever do this? Model your fictional buildings on real ones, your fictional people on real ones, or your fictional places on real ones?

Waiter, there's a marmot in my drink

A few years ago, Andi barricaded herself in the dark recesses of The Photoshop Bar & Grill where all the empty kegs go to die. When at last she emerged, cobwebby but triumphant, she presented a new drink to the world--The Dirty Marmotini!*

Around here, when we say, "bottoms up," we mean it, hic.

*Official Drink of The Booman Tribune Cafe

Three of the reasons I want a camera

In my back yard this week. . .a marmot, two red foxes, and two spotted fawns.

'Cause there's no such thing as. . .

. . .too many cupcakes.

Heavenly Nosh

Either there are cupcakes in heaven, or I'm not goin'.

These beauties are from "Sweet Revenge," the new (and "much more than a") cupcake emporium owned and operated by Andif's niece, Marlo Scott, at 62 Carmine Street, in New York City.

". . .velvety smooth, delicate, and delicious," gushed a reviewer.

I'm sure I'd agree, but I'd have to test them all first, just to be sure.

Congratulations, Marlo, from your aunt's friends at ASMoL!

Mysterious

Photo by Andif.

The Comment Coffee Shop is open twenty-four hours a day, so help yourself to your libation of preference. I think Beth has hidden a bottle of huckleberry wine over there in the corner, and there's always caffeine.

Farfetched, can you bring your homemade rolls and jam for breakfast?

With thanks to ICanHasCheezburger