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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

I was off social media for a couple of months. Whenever I took a glimpse of what is happening on Facebook or Instagram or the news, I would be (and still am) filled with rage.

Matt gave me some off-brand Lego-like kits (a camper and a Trojan Horse). Eventually I started building them and discovered that it was entertaining and a way to not think about things.

I decided to make a model of the Presidio chapel, using the 1860 drawing of the church. 

June 1860 drawing.

I used a photo of the interior of the church at Oquitoa, Sonora as a model.

Mision San Antonio Paduano del Oquitoa.

I had to purchase many pounds of Lego bricks and special order many small bricks and other items. They arrive at work and my co-workers think I am obsessed (accurate).

The front of the church mirrors the drawing pretty well. I have the stand with two bells and a pile of adobe bricks visible in the drawing.

Church facade.

I tiled the floor of the church- the original probably had a dirt floor. Wall niches hold saint statues.. I used photos of paintings at San Xavier mission and spray glued them to larger tiles. 

Interior view.

An altar is present at the front of the church. Matt and I are holding hands inside.

Altar view.

I made a confessional for the altar area.

Confessional and altar.

A walled cemetery with an iron cross is described in an 1820 inventory of the church.
Cemetery.

Next to the church was a small house with a corner fireplace, table, and sleeping mat.

House interior.

A bread oven stands next to the house and church.

Bread oven.

My mother would have loved this. She liked dolls and dollhouses. When I was five we went to Ace Hardware for my birthday and I got a Nylint house trailer for five dollars. It had plastic furniture. My mother gave me PeeWee dolls for it. My father hated it, "It's a dollhouse." I still have it.

I'm making a blacksmith shop and a Santa's workshop next. It is very calming sorting bulk bricks (I discovered you can get them for cheap on Goodwill.com) and planning a build. Of course you have to spend money, and the sets available can be pricey. It is still cheaper than going to see a shrink.





 


Sunday, July 13, 2025

I have been avoiding Facebook and Instagram. I watch videos on Youtube and occasionally see ones in which the ICE NAZIS are kidnapping people. I cannot tell you what I wish would happen to those Nazis. And now Congress has passed a bill to vastly increase the number.

So the Orange Monster will have his own tax-payer paid-for army of racist Nazis. After they run out of immigrants who will they go after next?





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