At the WLBOTT Ag Extension Service (Go Waggies!), we’re trying to replicate some of the major agricultural crops of Texas – cotton, sorghum, okra, peanuts…. Here’s our cotton field…. We gathered the elders for a quick WLBOTT blessing. Our cotton field is directly west of our spinach field. The spinach did really well, but recently […]
WLBOTT, at the forefront of fashion, is introducing a kelp and crustacean line. The Crustacean Cloche Business Attire Footwear The Barnacle Birkenstock Hermit Crab Inspired Line The Claw Heel The Fashion Show Our Weavers Now let us turn our attention to the hardworking Peruvian kelp weavers that make all this possible. Wearing their native dress, […]
Lady R, Elder JA‘s better half, now has a new tool at her disposal to track down JA. Just follow the tube! To help JA keep his tubing organized, Lady R put her knitting skills to work. They enjoy going on walks together, especially the three week spring-summer-fall when visiting Yellow Knife. On this day, […]
One of our Elders, Elder JA, recently came into possession of an oxygen concentrator. An oxygen concentrator is a device that concentrates the oxygen from a gas supply (typically ambient air) by selectively removing nitrogen to supply an oxygen-enriched product gas stream. They are used industrially, to provide supplemental oxygen at high altitudes, and as […]
WLBOTT is all about The Long Game. The Long Game is a quiet rebellion against urgency, or possibly just another reason not to get off the couch. We’ve tasked a team of unpaid researchers to examine our position 250 million years in the future, where the continents have re-merged into Pangaea Proxima. To increase shareholder […]
We offer yet another reason why you shouldn’t let idiots govern you. Shoe related…. Fulk IV (1043 – 14 April 1109), better known as Fulk le Réchin, was the count of Anjou from around 1068 until his death. He was noted to be “a man with many reprehensible, even scandalous, habits” by Orderic Vitalis, who […]
رَبِّ ارْحَمْهَا وَارْبِطْ عَلَى قُلُوبِ أَهْلِهَا “My Lord, have mercy on her and steady the hearts of her family.” إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ “Indeed, we belong to God, and indeed to Him we return.” A Time for Moral Reflection Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:where there is hatred, let me sow love;where […]
I find Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for the solo violin some of the most beautiful, complex music I’ve ever heard. In the partitas, Bach masters the art of creating multiple melody lines on a solo violin. You can read the history and technical details on the Wikipedia page. The Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin […]
Step 1: Obtain a Violin Rent, Buy, or Build Your Own? A reasonably priced violin will range in price from about $259 to a little over $23,000,000[1]. Rentals start around $35/month. You can probably build your own with odds and ends around your garage. [1] The most expensive violin ever sold is the 1715 “Baron […]
A delightful morning with Elder G! WLBOTT: Good morning, G. What musical key shall we sing in to welcome the day? ELDER G: Good morning, Elder JZ. If the morning were a doorway, the key you choose is the shape of the sunlight that slips through it. So let’s pick one that belongs to dawn. […]