I’m back on the road!I was off delivering cards within minutes of leaving Muffler Man of Apopka, Complete Auto Repair around 5pm. Thank you, Dray Coggin, for getting me out so fast so I could do more Christmas card deliveries!!!

One stop was to my Orlando High School Christmas Alumni gathering in College Park (Orlando). Passed along a few cards there. Here I am with Denise Lappe and Allison Campbell Thurston.

Allison and I were one of the few to be chosen at Edgewater H.S. to start a part-time job drawing caricatures (for me) and portraits (for her). We were literally pulled from the quiet life of school and thrown into the eager, hungry jaws of the tourism industry.

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I thought I’d share this inked piece that i did Friday for a company Christmas card. Still have coloring to do.

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Finally got a chance to be one around for some books and found a much needed volume invoking The Fisher House project I’m working on. I was having all sorts of trouble finding any good background of Florida Congressman Bob Sikes. A stop at a thrift store and I find his biography! Cheap!….and signed! 
I’m Actually stopping for a bit at one of my favorite spots in Pensacola- The Drowsy Poet Coffee Company, INC. with a Snickers and there fantastic Rocky Road brownie!

Awesome event for the Fisher House of the Emerald Coast tonight! I was there presenting one of the newest Swampy books for The Fisher House to help young people learn about the home, Eglin AFB, other bases in the area and have fun doing it!This is director Mia Hughes, president Teresa Haverson, Swampy and me!
If you don’t know: The Fisher House is a free place to stay for families whose military service member of the family is hospitalized. The Fisher House in Eglin Air Force Base is one of 71 such homes.

Just finished being in an elementary school class here in Niceville, Florida, speaking all about Florida history. From Juan Ponce to Publix! Doing my typical talk consisting of running around the room, waving my arms and drawing, too. The drawing of Madeline is the collaborative drawing I did where everyone participate.

Next stop: Greater Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce!

Adding the color to some earlier inking done Monday for a commercial project.

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Inked a bunch of editorial cartoons today. Here’s a wee piece of one.

Inked with a Pilot Pocket Brush Pen, Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pen and a Pilot Flair marker.

On a personal level: The past week knocked me out Monday. Got tire replaced today and celebrated Jacob’s birthday and preparing to be part of monster event Wednesday morning.

#INKtober2016

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Happy 24th Birthday, Jacob!!! Hoping you are well and life is full of success!
I celebrated of one of the two banana splits I have a year for yours and Taylor’s birthday.

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Working with Tim Reynolds and JJ on JJ’s Boozie Bucket advertising here at Wild Manta in Palm Bay, Florida, today! Despite the constant storms & tornado warnings, involving the massive hurricane Hermine, work must go on!

The Scarlet Letters by Ellery Queen
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I love the Queen series. i just picked up another clump of them. This is one of them. However, this is not an example of the reason i picked up so many.

This Queen tale is waaaaaaay too prolonged with an involved MaGuffin that seems orderly enough, but gets monotonous quickly as little else happens involving, what appears to be, a domestic dispute. The story doesn’t make sense unless Queen jumps to too many assumptions. which is something he warns not to do in many of the Queen novels. This is a repeated inconsistency that is the only way the writers could link events, but a flimsy one and one that had me find the entire tale ridiculous.

Due to the prolonged trip through the alphabet, the few characters are very well identified. Odd that the few settings, that are repeated many times, did not have the detail they could have.

The ending is very unsatisfying considering all it took to get to the point. All proving this would have been a far better short story.

Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 5 out of 5 points.

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Happy Birthday, Taylor!!! The annual trip for a banana split set me this time at Scoops in Ocla, Florida. Quite a different location and banana split (below) than the stop I made last year in South Carolina.

Here my friend, Marguerite Cavenaugh, and the owner of Scoops joins in Happy Birthday wishes!!!

Last years trip to work and help North Carolina candidate to run the N.C. G.O.P., A.J. Daoud put me in a spot to, for the first time, not create an animated Happy birthday wish. Driving to Raleigh, N.C., had me thinking maybe now is a good time to stop posting cartoons after all these years, in that you and Jacob are adults. The cartoons may seem silly now. So, I figure best to send birthday wishes this way with photos and hopes of a very Happy Birthday and hope that your life is tremendous!

By the way, A.J. Daoud is married to Amber’s aunt, Angie.