"What are you going to do with that ugly thing?" Dean's wife asked nicely.

[Nancy Bell Scott]

After working on it, Dean Marks now says "BUT I KINDA LIKE IT!" So do I, yep, it's colorful, looks Italian or French, and features wine and grapes--can't go wrong with those ingredients: There it hangs now near the piano corner, lightening the heavy load of the significance of classical music. Dean tells the story here of how I came to earn this prize by sending him 99 american cents last year, an investment obviously well worth making: The 91-cents sale price is a little suspect, but who's looking a gift horse in the mouth?

One of Dean's book covers also arrived recently, and I agree with the philosophy he puts forth, except for the part-sentence which could lead us to believe that "laughter is an indicator of pathology":  

*Thank You,* Dean!

[Nancy Bell Scott]

Dean said he would buy me something for the 99 cents while here in the states, but who would have believed him? He's a man of his word, by golly. And now we really know he is. 

[Carina]

Again an incredible story by Dean! Good to hear some news from Yosemite, but the Drunkpo painting, I'm not sure...