Note: The 5th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge is underway. The way it works is simple:
- Visit the Writing Challenge Page (TDWC)
- Pick one or more door(s) that inspires your creative spirit
- Write something, anything, or otherwise create or perform something based on that image
- Post your creation on your blog and link to the TDWC Page (preferred) or to any of my posts, or email me the link. If I follow you, I might see your post, but WordPress isn’t always reliable.
- Even if you don’t want to join us, you should visit the page to see what’s been written.
If you need to use email, you can reach me at NoFacilities at gmail dot com.

With this post we begin a new series—for lack of a better name, let’s call it “Things made of stuff.” If you want to see where we’re heading, you can check out the home page for this challenge.
We start this series with Things Made of Plastic.
My featured photo is the front of our house. The siding, while it appears to be cedar shakes, is vinyl. The look is good enough that we’ve had siding salesmen show up and ask of if we’d ever consider switching to vinyl. The railing and al the white trim is PVC, and the gray surface of the porch and ramp are Trex™, which is a plastic composite.
Good luck finding your photos, as you travel or in your archives. That’s how this works. Have a nice week. Oh, one more thing. I will be offline a lot for the next two weeks. I’ll get to your posts, but I may be late.














All five of my current books are now available in audio book form thanks to Amazon KDP’s Virtual Voice process. The voice is AI generated, but I can honestly say, it’s pretty darn good. The audio books are reasonably priced (all below $7 US) and, if you already own the Kindle version and want to add an audio version, you can do that for $1.99. There is a five-minute sample on the book page for each book. If you’re interested, click on any of the Dreamer’s Alliance book links below the image or on the link below for my latest book.






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