Spring Cleaning

April 17, 2023

My funny black and white comic of Bryan carrying around a box of springs. Drawn by artist Bryan Skinnell.

I finished my spring cleaning this weekend. Impressed? I certainly am.

Now my house is dirtier than ever.

I’m sure glad that nasty job is finished and done for the year. Because I hate cleaning house for all sorts of great reasons but primarily because I’m just plum lazy. And the fact that I’m not married grants me the delicious freedom to be as lazy as I want to be. It wouldn’t hurt things if the government recognized this peculiar subset of society’s misfits and granted some laws, and maybe an amendment or two, that grants us the rights and freedoms to be as slobby as we want to be. It’s a universal fact that lazy bachelors like myself never get any cleaning done because we are woefully unqualified to clean anything. Otherwise how could we remain lazy and slobby bachelors if we did? That would foist a tragic paradox upon us that no mortal could possibly solve because the only way to fix a lazy and slobby bachelor is to get that rascal married and force him to grow up! Doing so would cure him thrice over as he would no longer remain lazy, nor a slob and certainly not a bachelor.

Perish the thought.

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