A funny black and white cartoon of some pigs resting in a mud hole. Drawn by cartoonist Bryan Skinnell.

Be as happy as a pig in a hog waller. That’s my grand objective each and every single day I wake up. Seems easy enough to do and goodness knows I’m a real talent when it comes to sitting around and doing nothing all day long. But no dirty jokes today. I’m trying to cut down. The good doc told me to.

So what should we talk about today? Gosh, I’m not sure. If you’ll pardon me I’m kinda drawing a blank at the moment but we’ll get something fired up in a bit that, hopefully, will make a pleasant read. Just give me a moment here. Since it is the Christmas season and a time when we are all supposed to be counting our blessings and good cheer, perhaps I’ll write about that. Yeah, let’s do it!

So what are you thankful for? Me….I have loads of stuff I could rattle off. Let’s see….. let’s talk about cute babes for five hundred dollars please! Oh how thankful I am for those!!! This is gonna be an easy one I can tell.

Why I’m thinking of one right now who happens to work at a certain library not that far from here with whom I’d sure love to chat it up with sometime. Library babes are a special breed; brainy and a bit on the nerdy side. Library gals just ooze a certain allure and sophistication that I’m irresistibly drawn to. The kind of allure and sophistication in which they can holler at you to be quiet in six or seven different languages. It takes nerves of steel working the library desk while dealing with the constant silliness of the public. And it certainly doesn’t help things when you have those struggling and lovesick bohemian artists who occasionally stop by and make a pest of themselves trying to be flirty or hit you up for a date. Darn those guys and their Y chromosomes!

But I’m sure thankful for those library gals. They will always have your back. And who else is gonna help me run those darn printers anyway?

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Why hello there! My name is Bryan Skinnell and I am a middle-aged (50-ish) artist and neighborhood kook who is living the artistic and creative life out in the boonies of Bedford, Virginia. Bedford is one of the largest counties in the commonwealth of Virginia and, for the most part, it’s still a mostly rural one that bridges the gap between Roanoke and Lynchburg. You could say, in more ways than one, that Bedford is the heart of Virginia. I can’t argue with that although I usually think of Bedford more as Virginia’s belly button myself.

I grew up right here in Bedford and have lived and toiled most of my life on our infamous red clay. The sort of clay that makes the stickiest mud known to man after a rain and which clings like super glue from God to anything and everything it touches. If you are so foolish as to get it on yourself you’ll wind up tracking and leaving a trail of red goop everywhere you go for days afterwards to the delight of your family and friends. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else and Lord knows I tried as I’ve wandered from one end of the country to the other. But Bedford has my heart and that’s where I’ve chosen to live my life today. In my free time when I’m not stuck in my studio making art I do love being outside gardening or hiking or just pestering the neighbors.

Every day I try to write something that’s original, entertaining, and half-way thoughtful here on my blog while sharing my happy-go-lucky attitude and zest for life. Quite often I don’t have the foggiest notion of what I’ll end up saying in a post. But, whatever I end up writing about, I do hope you enjoy it!

I do keep a mailing list for interested readers and fans. If you would like to get in on the action and follow my musings and rabble-babble, that can be easily arranged. Just give me an email address that you would like for me to send my blog posts to and I’ll see that you get it.

Thanks for stopping by!
Bryan Skinnell

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