The Cactus Water Harvester

I planned for some time to harvest all the rain water coming from just the South down spout off the Cactus Theater. ............. One of my older plans :

The Best Electric Sign in Texas, in the Last 60 Years

My friends have just made the best electric sign in Texas, in the last 60 years.

A Small World

I'm building "A Small World from a Far Away Place".

The bottom of the world, is copper and leather over green Spanish glass. . Please note the iron tools to manage this world.

" Pickin' With Buddy " for Drew Pennington

" Robert, Amarillo is the ass-hole of the earth, and Lubbock is 120 miles up it "

More Larry's Nodders - The Humming Bird

This work is over 7 feet tall , and the whole piece rotates with the wind.

More Larry's Nodders

The artist with his flower girl. Mary.

Emmett Was There First

You guys missed it yesterday. Someone else owns that day , and he got there first .
Yesterday was Emmit Till's Day Too. And he was there first folks !
With a gin fan around his neck at Money Miss. . on the bank of the river.

The difference between Glenn Beck and Martin Luther King.
Dr. King new what had happened on the day folks. King picked that day for a reason . Glenn Beck claims to have not known the import of the day.

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955)

Emmett's 55 anniv. folks



Someone needs to ask Mr. Beck his views on the Lynching of 14 year-old-boy from the South side Chicago , in Money Miss. on the sameday, since he's got the keys to the Civil Rights Vault . Is this that dark period he speaks of ?
Where does the Tea Party Stand on Gin Fan Justice ? Does any of that Honor Repair Job get to Emmett Till's love ones ?

Tornado Gallery's Third Ann.

Poster art by Randy Fisher . Press run of 25 available at the Gallery for $10.00 ea.


Baking some bread tonight for the party tomorrow , Amish White . Yum

" Mark the Oak "

From all his friends at Tornado Gallery
For Mark Ruzicka, we planted an oak for you.

Testing the Disk Cooker

Made 2 loafs of Amish White Bread last night , made shrimp fried rice on Tony's plow disk cooker tonight. What a great way to cook. I love this thing .

The Whole Earth Access Company 71' Boulder, Colorado.

At the counter, (from the right) Tom Larimer, Mick Rosen, and Randy Cone holding back the light pull.
Photo is reversed


The dome is the first geodesic dome I ever had a hand in building. Made from wooden plaster lath salvaged from the walls of the building

Tom Larimer in the door way at 940 Pearl Street ,Boulder.

Mick's girlfriend, who's name I have forgotten, I remember the rest of her though.

You can see the outline of our 10 foot tepee set up in the back. I slept in that tepee just outside the south entrance to Red Rocks , for 3 months once.

Tony's Plow Disc Cooker

After the fire table ( see below ) Tony built a " Cowboy Wok ". Looking forward to trying this baby out. He was seasoning it Saturday night.

Awards, Boots, and Shoes

Saturday Night in Lubbock

Tony's Fire Table

Don't Make Me Come to Your House

Help us fill box # 95

How a Bunch of Fish Heads Got Keith Olbermann & Don Imus to Shelter a Village in Haiti

Craig's Little Campfire
When we all began to set-up our our own little campfires on the world wide campground. I stumbled on Craig Crawford's little blaze . It was an amazing little salon, with a marshmallow toasting on a coat hanger feel. Something about Young Crawford , he has a pretty interesting set of friends. It was a treat to visit the clearing and see what was cooking on the fire.

Some times the flames roared-up, and caught a sleeping bag or two on fire. But Craig , has managed over the years to control the flames, and not set the woods on fire. No mean feat when one considers that the campground he chose is in Washington D.C., home to a lot of dead wood.

Craig has talked about from time to time about moving the campground back home to Florida, and starting a fish camp. This was mostly when he was confronted by just how much dead wood there is in Washington. And I joked about what to do when fish heads were left everywhere, around the campfire, instead of empty bags of marshmallows & bent coat hangers.

The TM Fish Camp

Over the years, at our little fire, we watched the world, and informed each other about things of day , music, books, history, life/death, jokes, ( Lot's of jokes ), big events, and the small events as well. These discussions are real treat for me, and have been of great value to my life. When the Great Haiti Earth Quake struck. We were all discussing what we could do to help, and I began poking around looking for something that would let us all not feel so helpless in the face of such great tragedy. I came across ShelterBox, and because one of the things I learned at Craig's campfire was how to build campfires of on my own, I set - up The TM Fish Camp, as a place where we could band together to help the people of Haiti. At first, all we were hoping for was to chip - in , and buy a few of these ShelterBoxes. Our plan was to follow these messages of shelter to where they will end-up in Haiti. Little push pins on a map , and see if we could learn the stories behind where they landed.

But then , a funny thing happened , some of those interesting friend's of Craigs began to help us as well. It began as a shout-out from Keith Olbermann on Tuesday night last week. Then the next morning Craig appeared on Don Imus's show, and in the following days, we went from giving shelter to 30 people, ...... to giving shelter to 870 people. Our campground of just a few souls, exploded into a village of hundreds. Mixed in among all these gifts , are the contributions of Imus & Olbermann , one of the things we love at Crawford's campfire is irony.

As of this morning, the last day of January, we have raised nearly $70,000.00, and we are working on buying our 88th ShelterBox. That's over 870 people, and that's a village.

Join The TM Fish Camp here.
Colorado Bob

Tony's Lamps

Tony Greer has figured out how to make oil lamps out of light bulbs, I know, it's really retro , but they are damn cool.

" Fat Elk Speaks "

A while back, my friend in South Carolina, by the nom-de-plume of "Sturgeon ", asked if I had a leather vest left over from a past life. I regretted telling him it was all gone. Well I was wrong , I found one in a box, so Friday night I let him know I would pass it along . I made this one on Flint Ave. in Lubbock, in the early 90's. It's made from a very fat old elk hide. I just washed to get it ready to send to him.
Hot water and Ivory followed by lot's of pulling on it as it dries out. Then a heavy dose of Carnauba Cream to restore the waxes and oils .

Over the weekend, Sturgeon had the good fortune to rescue a Red Tail Hawk. Looks like that old fat elk is going to a good home in South Carolina.

Sturgeon's Blues Crab

My Oldest and Best Idea

This is the last gas of an old man, please take it with salt.
I have carried this idea for nearly 40 years here it is all laid out. It is a system based on a 10 foot X 1 1/2 " piece of PVC plumbing. More to follow.

Chair Dolly

We have a bunch of garden furniture we have to shuffle around from time to time.
So I got in the scrap pile, and made a Dolly to move this stuff faster, and with a lot less effort.