Frank Miller paintings

....I have two watercolor paintings signed Frank Miller that were purchased from the Des Moines Art Center many years ago. I believe they were painted by the same Frank Miller who was a political cartoonist for the Des Moines Register for many years. I have been unable to verify this, however. Can anyone help?

Tea Leaf Sold

I received the check yesterday for $1400 - a very satisfactory result. Next on the docket: Lenox Mystic.

Surprise!

My friend threw a "surprise" party for my 83rd birthday Saturday. The only other time that happened to me I was forty. I used quotes because the preparations were obvious. Good food and good conversation with neighbors (hers).

From Kalamazoo to Maine

Kalamazoo is where I took my tea leaf to be auctioned off. Besides the auction we got to see the Gilmore car museum and the W. K. Kellog manor. The Radisson Plaza is a great hotel and everywhere we went we were well fed.

Predicted weather caused us to cancel our plans for Niagra Falls. Instead, we toured wineries in Paw Paw and visited a friend who lives near there on a lake. From there we found The Chocolate Garden. Then we used Maggie, my GPS, to find another winery that had a restaurant with fine food and a fine view. The rest of the way home my driver was driving in the rain in heavy traffic.

Maine is where I am going next with two nephews and their wives. The destination is The Rise and Shine Bed and Breakfast run by good friends of mine. It is located in an old Woolworth mansion. There is a large horse barn where racing horses were once kept.

An Economic Question

Tonight Michael Moore was on Jay Leno's program and stated that the top one per-cent had more wealth than the bottom 95 per-cent combined. [Or was it income? Doesn't matter.] My reaction is "So what?" A better measure is the distribution of consumption. I'm sure they don't eat as much, drive as many cars, live in as many houses, wear as many clothes, or use as much medical care. My concern is how I live, not how the top one per-cent live. I'm sure that I am in the 95 per-cent but I live very well.

If the top one per-cent gave their wealth to the 95 per-cent, the latter couldn't consume twice as much goods and services because there wouldn't be enough to go around. Instead, prices would go up.

Am I missing something?

Barn Dance

Also traditional square dance or hoe down

The call I remember goes:

First couple out and couple on the right

Around that couple and swing
Through that couple and both couples swing
Circle four in the middle of the floor
Dos a ditty and dos si do
One more swing and on you go

{Repeat with the 1st and 3rd and then 1st and 4th}

Second couple out and couple on the right

{Repeat all the way around}

{at the end}
Everybody swing.

{I may have forgotten more at the ending. I was young then.}

You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey

Form:
[first line], Honey.
[first line], Babe.
[second line].
Honey, Baby, Mine.

You get a line and I'll get a pole
We'll go down to the crawdaddy hole

Yound'r come a man with a sack on his back
He's got all the crawdads he can pack

Man fell down and he broke that sack
See all them crawdad's crawlin back

Sat on the pole, my feet got cold
I was lookin' right down that crawdad's hole

What you gonna do when the creek goes dry
Stand on the bank and watch crawdads die

What did the duck say to the drake
There ain't no crawdads in this lake

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Does anyone think he answered my question? The only amount of service that I am contemplating changing is canceling it. Suppose he would be happy to assist me with that?

Tea Leaf Update

It's all boxed and ready to go to the auction in Kalamazoo next week. I have 42 0f the 360 lots that will be auctioned.

On Being Uncle Harlow

My name is Harlow and I have three nephews. *

My mother had a brother named Harlow so I had my own Uncle Harlow.

While sitting in one a class taught by one of my nephews, he introduced me as his mother's twin brother. I became Uncle Harlow to the whole class (all much younger than I).

Another blogger described me as avuncular. I looked it up. It means like an uncle.

I suppose it is to late to call this blog Uncle Harlow's Place.
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*I actually have four nephews and a niece. I see three nephews the most.