Author: hamishmacdonald

The comic is available online here, but in my coffeeshop session yesterday I realized I want to include a “how I did this” section plus some “clip & mail in” bits just ‘cuz I think they’re fun.

That came off sounding more ominous than I intended.

We bought a piece of furniture this weekend and — amazingly — managed to get it home and up the stairs into our bedroom.

We bought it from a store out of town that has an “Islander Days” sale at the end of the season. Then the furniture is just expensive instead of “How much?!!”

We’ve bought a couple of these “shipwreck” pieces, which are made in Indonesia from salvaged wood. We like the colours and rough finish, and we understand that these sales are also kind of “as-is”, so there’s no going back to complain if there’s a chip or a crack.

But this time we got the dresser home and discovered something different:

A drawer full of ducks!

After yesterday, the shop is closed for the winter. Now what?

Do our fifty favourite people get a duck for Christmas?

Ambitions must wait:
Rainy gray day
and runny nose.

And for dinner, my mom took us to Cedar’s Eatery — always a favourite!

Along with my little notebook with my Yukon jottings, I lost my monthly planner for August and hadn’t got around to making a new one. Plus I lost the little sleeve I’d made for it. So yesterday I made a fresh start…