[Mike McCarty]

So it was you I saw on the porch with that banjo.

I've heard that the definition of a gentleman is: a man who could play the bagpipes, but chose not to. I guess depending on your skill level with that banjo the same could apply.

I'm on the intermittent circuit. I'm alternating between painting, writing and making omelets.

I watched Jacques Pepin, Julia Child's old running mate, make a French omelet and I wasted dozens eggs trying to do it myself.

Sounds like your art production is fixing to increase substantially. A two-hour commute - what a man's gotta come to to serve the law.

Here's a watercolor that our friend in Madrid, Carlito Ygoa, sent me. This is by the artist Joseph Zbucvik. I think he's foreign.