Jamie Swartzmiller

U.S. Art Supply is part of TCP Global. TCP Global began in 1974 as a small home decorating store in Lakeside, California, and now offers 9+ separate websites, which include U.S. Art Supply. On the website there are nine categories that are airbrushing, bundles (like kits), easels, canvas & surfaces, paper, brushes, paint & mediums, markers/pens/pencils, and artist tools. Airbrushing From…

I took a lot of photos of flowers this previous spring. The blooms below are morning glory and fleabane. These blooms in the cage with the Rose of Sharon are Weigela “Mont Blanc” shrubs, according to Google. It is really pretty up close. The pink flower below, from what I could find on Google, is a Deptford Pink. It is a member of the carnation family. These petite, five-petal flowers are wood…

The Body Farm series is the team of Jon Jefferson and Dr. Bill Bass. Dr. Bass founded the University of Tennessee Anthropology Research Facility, which I gather is the inspiration for these books. Jon Jefferson is a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. Based on the synopsis in the back cover, I was expecting the story to be full of action and mystery, with some red herrings thrown in…

This is the video I told you about in the previous post, Got More Interesting Critters to Show. You can see the post below. https://thisweekonthesix.wordpress.com/2026/07/01/got-more-interesting-wildlife-to-show In the post, I had a photo of deer and turkeys that showed up early Saturday morning. The turkeys had just been fed some corn, and the deer happened to be walking through. This is a…

You can’t really tell but it was really coming down. Just before I took this photo, the wind was blowing so hard that visibility was near to zero. You would not want to be driving in this. That’s it for today. Thank you to everyone who visits and reads my posts. God bless and have a great day. Jamie

Daily writing promptWhat do you love now, that you hated when you were younger?View all responses Short answers, vegetables, news, and politics. Vegetables never tasted right or smelled wrong when cooked. The news was always boring and took too long to get to the point, they still do that today even. Politics never seemed to be about what I saw as important, but then I was a kid, so I never saw…

If you’ve seen my post on the three new categories, one of those categories is On the Back 40. This post is to show you what that acreage looks like. Overgrown. It’s all overgrown. The clover is all grown up and producing these perennial flowers that are oxeye or dog daisy, according to Google Lens. Also, according to Google, they are considered an invasive species, so the deer can eat to their…

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I see people doing this, making notes in the margins like, “This is really interesting here,” or “She makes a great point here,” but I just see that it cheapens the experience for the next reader. It’s almost like a previous reader is influencing future readers on what they should see as interesting or important to the plot. I don’t see a problem with…

Let me preface this by saying I am not a particularly big fan of snakes. I suppose I’ve gotten used to them as I have gotten older, but I still don’t like them. With all of that said, look at this guy. He is an Eastern Milk Snake, according to Google, but we all know how trustworthy Google is. His tail was rattling or maybe it was twitching, like a rattlesnake, and he was not happy. He slithered…

I got this one-minute video when I was checking out the greenhouse. I was looking to see how hot it was in there with the sun beating on it all day and it being 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Pretty stuffy. But I came back out, and a ruby-throated hummingbird had just landed on the feeder; I didn’t want to scare her away, or at least I think it’s a her, and then I remembered I don’t have any videos of…

Photo by Dmitry Zvolskiy on Pexels.com The wind is blowing with the hot sun beating its rays on the earth. The neighbor is mowing the grass and the mower sounds like an airplane ready to take off. The birds are singing their songs while the frogs are croaking out their calls. The crickets are chirping. A day in the life. What a time to be alive. There are some days where it seems it can’t get…

You remember the post I made with the last update on the vegetables and flowers that we planted and then killed. The photo below is a reminder of our overzealousness. I was going to take all of these flats and dump them in the back, but look what came up. This is about two hours after that big rain ended. We got another little shower, but that won’t hurt much, hopefully. Every one of the bottom…

Zero Hour opens with a group of people, well connected and some military, like, Brigadier General Hal Cortland, in a cavern in northern California. The year is 1906. A scientist called Daniel Watterson has figured out how to pull energy from the air, at first it looks like lightning, or more accurately electricity, which it being 1906 isn’t anything that this group hasn’t seen before. What it…

A two-minute video of the tom and hen turkeys walking across the pond. The toms take a moment to get a drink from the pond before moving on across the road. Thank you for visiting and reading my blog. God bless and have a great day. Jamie

As you can see from the menu, I have added three new categories, Curiosities, On the Back 40 and Weather. I’m hoping with these new sections I will be able to keep you updated with everything happening back in the woods and all the weather we get here. Curiosities will be my way of telling you all about the animals and plants that I find. A little taste of Curiosities. With plants like oak…

We were walking the hill area where the greenhouse is sitting, trying to figure out how to fit the dog pen and two 12×14 sheds there. During this walk we found all these trees. So many oaks of different kinds, a fruit tree, and a chestnut, according to Google. I’m not entirely sure because the all-information king, Google, said something was poison ivy when it was clearly not poison ivy. Leaves…