It’s the time of year when my in-box fills with misguided attempts to get me to blog about Superbowl snacks such as a bag of chocolate covered pretzels that looked like–there’s no nice way to say this–a sack of humanure. In response I’m posting, for the second year in a row, the gatefold of the ZZ Top album Tres Hombres. No snack stadium could possible out-compete this Texas sized combo platter. What are you up to today? Watching the game? Preparing for the next arctic vortex/drought? Reading homesteading blogs? Constructing a lacto-fermented snack stadium?

Found this cleaning out my desk. No idea of the date, but it shows a pre-draught California.

Mrs. Coolidge’s raccoon Rebecca at an Easter egg rolling photo-op in 1927. Did the Tennessee Raccoon outlaw who is now running for governor choose the same name by coincidence?