Shawn Hoefer, Author at Laffing Horse

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Dec 28, 2014 in art, Featured |

Art!

Many, many, many years ago, I used to dabble with pens and pencils and pastels and paints and brushes and quills to create something I thought looked nice. Others...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Sep 4, 2014 in Brooms, Featured, Meanderings |

I must need more RAM!

That has nothing to do with sheep. I mean Random Access Memory. I seem to be suffering from memory errors here lately, and my diagnostic software hasn’t been...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Mar 22, 2014 in Brooms, Featured |

Sweep In Plans finalized!

Before I begin rattling on about the plans, I think I should take a moment and talk about who Sweep In is for. Is it for professional broom makers that have been making...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Mar 3, 2014 in Brooms, Featured |

Sweep-In planning progressing

Sweep-In 2014 is fast approaching. The date, for those that haven’t looked at the page yet and have not marked your calendars, is April 11-13. The unofficial...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Feb 17, 2014 in Brooms, Cooking, Farm, Featured, Meanderings |

Spring is time for planting gardens

And making brooms… Of course, I think anytime is fine for making brooms. And apparently I like cooking… who knew? And now I want to garden some, too…...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Jan 13, 2014 in Cooking, Featured |

Further forays into fermented foods

I’ve been contacted by some folks concerned that I’m taking this too far. They believe that, based on what I’ve been writing, I’m only eating...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Jan 9, 2014 in Cooking, Featured |

Fermented Foods’ Just Desserts

“If you reads it on the Internets it must be true!” I hear this all the time and what I once heard spoken as a given fact is more often being stated in...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Jan 6, 2014 in Cooking, Featured | 2 comments

Sauerkraut and kefir and kvass, oh my!

Preparing Fermented Foods Yesterday, I wrote about my newest micro-obsession with fermented foods. Then I posted to Facebook inviting people to follow if they wanted to...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Jan 4, 2014 in Cooking, Featured, Meanderings | 2 comments

Happy New Years!

I’m starting 2014 with Fermented Foods One of this first things you ought to know about me – if you didn’t know it already – is that I read. I...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Dec 9, 2013 in Brooms, Featured, Fiber Arts |

The show must go on!

In the last post, I told you how the big Arkansas Craft Show Christmas Showcase was cancelled due to nasty Winter storm that pretty much shut down the state of...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Dec 7, 2013 in Brooms, Farm, Featured, Meanderings |

Iced out & snowed in – weather wrecks a show, or does it?

Winter weather has got us down. The Arkansas Craft Guild’s Annual Christmas Showcase is normally held on the first full weekend of December. This is our biggest...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Nov 26, 2013 in Brooms, Featured, Fiber Arts, Woodworking |

Booth building

Since moving to Mountain View, Arkansas and taking positions at the Ozark Folk Center State Park, we’ve only done two or three shows a year. There’s the...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Nov 22, 2013 in Brooms, Featured, Fiber Arts, Meanderings, Websites |

Apologies and updates

An apology I am terribly embarrassed. It seems that I have not written a post since June 8! By now, I’m guessing that most folks are assuming that I’ve gone...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on May 6, 2013 in Fiber Arts |

Spinning yarns and weaving tails

Jeanette Larson, my beloved other… er, better… half spends a lot of her time at the Ozark Folk Center. But when she’s not there, she’s spinning and weaving and tending...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Apr 26, 2013 in Meanderings, Websites |

Happy Birthday WordPress

The joys of WordPress I have been tinkering with computers since the dark old days of the Commodore Vic 20 and the Timex Sinclair. I’ve used Commodore’s old...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Feb 1, 2013 in Brooms, Featured, Fiber Arts, Woodworking |

Hunting season is upon us

For some, the fall is synonymous with hunting season. People gather up their camo, their rifles or bows and arrows and head to the woods for wild game. For me,...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Jan 6, 2013 in Meanderings |

Planes, trains and automobiles

We are home! Every other year, Jeanette and I make a pilgrimage to Colorado near Christmas to see friends and family. In years past, we drove – more than 3000...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Dec 14, 2012 in Brooms, Featured, Fiber Arts, Meanderings |

And the year starts to wind down…

We’ve finished another show. The packing and unpacking are done and we’ve taken a day or two to put up our feet and relax (well, I did… Jeanette went...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Dec 5, 2012 in Brooms, Fiber Arts, Woodworking |

It’s (almost) Showtime!

The last week’s been a noisy blur. Every morning, instead of a kiss on the cheek and a cup of coffee, I am jarred from sleep by the creaky thunk sound made by...

Posted by Shawn Hoefer on Sep 30, 2012 in Brooms, Farm, Fiber Arts, Meanderings, Woodworking |

Off the Beaten Path Studio Tour offers an inside look at the creative process

Every year, as the weather starts to cool from the highs of July and August, artists and craftspeople within a 30-mile radius of the small Ozarks town of Mountain View...

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