The Codgers

I’m here on Jay’s back porch—OK, really on my back porch, but Jay has not updated that drawing yet—enjoying my mug of organically & shade-grown, fair-trade, French-Roast coffee, while Jay is out of sight drawing—something. According to MY replica “Pruett’s Pig Powders” thermometer (shown in the ...

While I am enjoying my mug of organically & shade-grown, fair-trade, Guatemalan-Roast coffee, my thoughts are of Wednesday’s catastrophic collapse of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River Bridge. I spent the entire day glued to the radio listening to the coverage of this tragedy, I couldn’t tear ...

By “Boomer” Jack Boardman At 6:05pm, the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi suffered catastrophic failure and fell 64 feet carrying at least 50 vehicles into the river and the adjacent shores. As of this writing seven people are known to have perished and the toll is expected to rise. (M...

            To tell you what these little shapes are, of course! Would you’d care to guess??                When I introduce a new graphic, it seems to follow that I’m asked how I draw the graphic, and what program I use. Although I’ve answered the program question—I’ll cover that again—it’s easi...

…I think he’s suffering from something else! By “Boomerjack” Boardman Jay stopped by at insane o’clock this morning, as he frequently does when he wants to post to Active Rain. This time, he informed me he was too sick due to “his allergies” to post, and gave me the keys to this blog. “Allergies...

WARNING: LINK POST—LINK POST—LINK POST! In my former blog-life as one of five “Codgers” I would with some frequency write from “my corner of cyberspace,” mixing real people with totally fictional people in the cyber-city of “Codger’s Corner.” “Codger’s Corner” occupied the same space along the “C...

WARNING: THIS IS A LINK-POST!  WARNING: THIS IS A LINK-POST!  WARNING: THIS IS A LINK-POST!  One of the things I’ve missed most about the demise of the Active Rain blogging entity “The Codgers,” was the frequent trips to the “Codger-Lodge,” and excursions aboard the “Pegasus II.” So today you ma...

By Jay Merton…and Boomer Jack I’ve invited Boomer over to my back porch this fine 60ºF & clear morning here in Old Saint Paul… …Why, exactly am I here, Jay. We have out of town out-laws, er—in-laws arriving this afternoon—and I’m expected to complete a very long honey-do list before they arrive....

It’s a comfortable 68ºF this fine Saint Paul morning on my back porch as I am enjoying my mug of organically & shade-grown, fair-trade, French-Roast coffee (as is necessary to get my brain firing on all remaining synapses)! Yes—you read the title correctly—I am an introvert. At times, painfully ...

It’s a fine partly-cloudy, 77ºF Sunday afternoon here on my back porch. Don’t let the graphic above fool you, Boomer & I are not enjoying mugs of organically & shade-grown, fair-trade, Guatemalan-Roast coffee, but some nice cold water (don’t need any more coffee, no matter how much I love the st...