Main Street Studio in Mackay Idaho

03/27/2022

Working on a Short Menu in avoidance of addressing the remodel.

02/19/2022

Main Street Studio will be going through a transformation. The Artist In Residence, Reva McConnell, had a long-term plan from the original date of purchase, about 10 years ago, to remodel the tiny kitchen into a tiny Commercial kitchen. This transformation will be accomplished inside of two years and will feature a walk-up/take-out window for Americanized Asian food (in other words not authentic Asian), with an occasional standard American dish on a Short Menu. It will not be a dine-in facility. Hours and days will be limited to three or four days per week (mostly when other local eateries are not open is the current plan) and during larger events, such as the Four-H Fairs and the like. Three or four-hour window for the first phase. The second phase hopes to be able to add in door-dash to edify the local elderly population and businesses and residences that want lunch delivered. Tentatively, the hours will run from 11:00 to 3 or 4:00. Permanent discounts will be built in for Veterans, Legion Auxiliary members, Volunteer Fire and Ambulance. There will also be “free” lunch days offered for these same categories. Other organizations could be conceivably honored at our Whim. Little snippets of information will be disseminated as time goes on for the ASIAN-ISH cuisine. Later Dudes.........

02/15/2022

I used to feel this way.

11/28/2021

The trees on our Garden Railroad have outgrown the Scale of the diorama and will be cut down over the next two or three days and put in front of the studio for anyone who wants one.

03/27/2021

What a fun workshop, with the impeccable teachings of Karly Brown and Kapotahi Tuahine Frederiksen. I try to learn one new method or art form every year and this year I chose the weaving workshop which resulted in constructing a sampler size of a Maori ceremonial cloak. What amazing instruction and such fun to do the weaving. I used some Turkey feathers that I “harvested” from a road-killed wild Turkey.

03/27/2021

New Art Installation at Main Street Studio in Mackay

01/27/2021

Well, it was obvious that the Studio wasn’t open this winter (a town of around 500 people - how could you possibly tell). However, If you are traveling through Challis, Idaho, stop in at the Mad Dog Gallery on Main Street to see some of my work. I have around a dozen items on display there.

06/07/2020

Finished the bed for the Horse-and-buggy frame and added some flowers I had left over from all my other plantings.

05/31/2020

Finally able to plant at the studio. Planted two deck baskets and ran out of potting soil for the other two. Made a new bed around the signpost to “plant” the horse-buggy frame I dug up in the mountains, and planted the RR car planters. Also got the planters done at the American Legion building. I need a vacation......

05/31/2020

05/29/2020

My father helped with some of the cleanup after this accident.

The only lethal nuclear accident to ever take place on U.S. soil happened when a military engineer removed a uranium fuel rod from a nuclear reactor – by hand.