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American Gothic Daily is MOVING!!!! http://americangothicdaily.com

easier to remember yes??

:D

Aggie

Recipies

A friend of mine is slowly becoming certified organic. Like me, she owns over an acre and a half of land -- but unlike me, she's motivated to work it. Next year I think I'll garden-- simply because the cost of food is rising.

She's getting her young daughters involved and what ever the girls make in profit goes into their college money. They have invested in a wide variety of chickens and some turkeys so that the bug problem is easier to deal with. These recipes are for the rest of the little pests the chickens wont get:

Aphid Control: 1 cup blended and pureed onions with 1 cup water. Lasts in fridge for 6 wks. Use in a spray bottle.

Dormant Oil Spray: 1/2 cup mineral oil, 1/4 cup fish oil, 1/2 cup liquid detergent, 15 cups water. will last 6 months in a cool place. Spray on plants.

Oily Garden Repellant: 1/4 cup chopped garlic, 2 cups water, 2 teaspoon mineral oil, 1 oz. of oil based soap like palmolive. Blend in blender Spray on plants.

Vegetable garden repellant: 1/4 cup garlic, 1/4 cup hot pepper, 1 1/2 cup water, 1/2 cup wood ash, 1/4 hydrated lime. Puree garlic, pepper and onions. stir all together and spray on plants.


Now.. if you ask me... some of the best books of all time are:
"Cheaper and Better: Homemade alternatives to storebought goods" by Nancy Birnes.
Any of the "The Tightwad Gazette" books by Amy Dacyczyn. I found used copies of these in my local Goodwill thrift store, and when ever I find more of them.. I buy them and give them to friends. They really made the reevaluate how I was brought up. My mother and grandmother had grown up in very poor rural Indiana, but when the 80's came along-- we suddenly had money to spend and we stopped living so frugally. I was in for a shocker when I got out on my own and discovered I couldn't afford $200.00 snake skin boots on a minimum wage job.

There's so much talk right now about America being in a recession. I remember the late 70's when we were saving left overs in old bread bags. We couldn't afford fancy ziplock bags. We ate a horrible beef stew on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights with a can of corn thrown in on Wednesday to perk it up. Entertainment back then meant going to the library and getting a week's worth of Sci-Fi books. We had no cable, no satellite, no Atari yet. (yes.. I'm showing my age). My family now don't know what "poor" and "recession" really means.... it's going to be an interesting decade if we really do hit recession like I remember the gas crunch era.

Aggie

Romance Novel pages for you to enjoy

The first two pages of the AGD novel are available on my Deviant art account.

I wrote it two years ago.. way before I started the webcomic. That is why I have script well planned out foooooreeeeeeeverrrrr. It's gonna take me years to get AGD the webcomic done XD

Good for you right??

Boy.. I have a lotta work cut out for me!

Aggie Janicot

This weekend's sketchbook

SciFi channel had on this weekend a whole rash of fun movies: Ginger Snaps Back, The Mummy (from like 1992-- not the Brendan Frazier ones), The Insatiable, My Boyfriends Back... so I sat around and watched tons of campy vampire-werewolf-zombie-mummy movies. During that I worked on the current AGD update and did some sketchbook work... the first is "AnglSarumon".. a joke on our friend Saru. The next was inspired by some dreadlocks I saw on a Sci-fi commercial.... playing with the angles and messing them all up. The third was of an Asian character-- I just really liked his heart shaped face for a male. I usually dont draw those. The last is classic comic male cheese... working on the planes of the face.

Aggie

A Tribute to White Face Squirrel

White Face Squirrel had guts... probably too many. He would go right up to my sleeping dog Dagmar and eat out of her dog food bowl.

He was a huge red Squirrel- a bright orangy-red, with a pure white face. I don't think he was old.. it wasn't the kind of white face from old age.. but a pure white patch that made him very distinct.

When I went to get the mail, I found him dead in the road about four feet away. Poor guy. I'll miss him.

In typical Pagan fashion, I left him there... knowing that he would feed the other creatures of the earth. This is our local gang of turkey vultures, having a wonderful time with White Face.

I'll miss you and your silly antics in the lawn.

-Aggie

Luke and Millia

I've spent my Saturday making sculptures of Millia and Luke's heads for fun.. Luke's nose is waaay too big, and Millia's cheekbones are uneven... BUT they do what I want them to do... work as models for shading and continuity. I'm going to make Carl and Steve next I think. They will be more challenging because of all the wrinkles and more complex faces.

It's been fun doing something else but ink, ink, ink and paint for a change.

Aggie

Kel... for Reinder

I've been having way too much fun with clay this weekend.....

Character Sketches

This is the vampire Empress Dagu. Every vampire story needs royalty.. and of course, in the future, our clueless vampire's apprentice is going to blunder he way into vampire court. Predictably, there ain't much our Prince Luke can do but stand back and gasp... try to keep her out of trouble... try to keep her from getting skinned....

How that turns out... you'll all have to wait until this first story is over. I will tell you this... people die.

ha ha right? People die in every Paranormal romance story :P

Enjoy-
-Aggie

Kathy Lee Gifford... you can eat my shorts

Kathy Lee has me pissed off today... Here's her shallow little apology at youtube.


here is the crappy little comment that started it all, also on youtube. Notice the Ancient Egyptians weren't "nasty"... even though they were Pagans too. Damn she's a twit.