This little bit of graffiti is on a windowsill in the new cabin. One of the builders left it there. I love this kind of stuff! There's another one created by a slightly less talented artist on the west wall. I don't know if this is supposed to represent the man (or woman?) who was building the cabin, but I think the man I contracted with may have hired some of the local Amish folk to build it. I'll never paint over this bit of art. When the day comes that we finish the inside of the cabin, I'll just put a clear coat of polyurethane over it to preserve it. I found a comment left by one of the builders of my house in suburbia written on one of the floor joists visible in the basement. It is tucked behind the furnace and water heater, out of the way. The writer commented about a certain person (foreman?, father-in-law?) being a great guy. That note has been there for more than two decades. When we built the extra bedroom in our basement (long story), we painted the concrete walls with a white sealer, and then, before we laid wallboard over them (on studs), Libby and I wrote love notes to each other on the white wall. Those notes are still there and will be found someday by someone. When I painted my daughter's room (after she moved out), I found a small duck drawn in a child's hand on the wall just at the baseboard. Wonderful! I painted around that bit of graffiti, and it, too, is still there today. I've scratched my initials into rocks here and there in my forest, mostly left to be found by someone someday somehow. (I've grown less eager to do this since they might be interpreted as my idea of where a Property Line runs, which is not their intent.) The most ambitious one is on a car-sized boulder about ten feet down in the lake. I'm proud of that one though for obvious reasons, I haven't seen it in a long while. Missouri calendar:

• The Missouri Natural Events Calendar is blank for today.

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