Here are the three dry Mineral King oil paintings that are one inch too long to fit on the flatbed scanner, which I now have to connect to the old laptop in order to use. This is because when I “upgraded” my operating system, it caused my current laptop to no longer communicate with the scanner. 

What passes for old in this world is just hard to comprehend. Merle Haggard had a line in a song, “Wish a Ford and a Chevy could still last ten years, like they should” – how about a printer or a scanner?

I now also have to do some shenanigans with a flash drive in between the old and new laptops in order to fix the unsightly black edges around some of the paintings because of that blasted “upgrade”. If I hadn’t said anything, you probably would not have noticed.

Never mind, let’s move on, shall we?

Each one of these is oil on wrapped canvas, ready for hanging, 6×18″, $165 plus California sales tax, which is 7.75% here in the foothills of Tulare County, deep in the heart of California’s fly-over country. (But we feed the world, and don’t you forget it.)

Guess I’d better gird my loins, find my inner warrior, be a brave soldier, and return to Forrest’s Dream Cabin.