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NOT AT ALL THE USUAL
• I worry and have nightmares about our friend Poolie. The vertigo continues with the resulting nausea and dizziness keeping her immobile. A few days ago, even moving her head to speak, upset...
VISITS
Dixie and I in 20013 The days are grey. We make plans to take the train north to see Dixie. If we wait a year she might not remember us. The thought of seeing her brightens my day but frighte...
QUIETLY
As the trees outside our windows faded into twilight, I cranked up my computer. NASA offered a wonderful way to watch yesterday’s eclipse travel across the continent. From Oregon to Charlott...
SUNDAY
• We got up at dawn to drive forever north for breakfast. Grandson Alex’s girlfriend believe’s in family. She believes they need to stay in touch. She’s very right, but over the years my...
THE CAPTAIN AND MIA
Mia and the Captain. It hasn’t been a good year for the Captain and her sister, Mia. Mia is home now recovering from a double bypass. Captain Poolie is once again in the hospital with the...
OH, SCHOOL
Zoe, 2017 Zoe started school today. Margot dropped her off with friends to walk the last several blocks. Seventh grade….I remember it well. I asked George where he was in seventh grad...
INTO ACTION
Out of focus us after action. Ok, we have a new major drain line from the kitchen, we have a new garbage disposal that actually works right instead of flooding the kitchen, my new partia...
QUALITY
He called me just as I was settling in to my Monday nights at home routine. He reached Poway, and just after he rounded his last corner it began sounding like a buzz bomb. I reminded him t...
MONSOONAL PICNIC
Three nice guys. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday were some of the quietest days I remember in forever and ever. He bought and installed a new garbage disposal. I read. He ordered...
UPDATES AND ORTS
• Quilt: These stars were to be a bottom border on the original design. Now a few of them are scattered about in the abstraction. I finally got to sewing only to discover that two of th...
KING SIZED
Rayna Gillman, “Totem 2.” The little abstract quilt above gives you a general idea of the layout of the quilt I am working on. A center abstract block with very wide borders. The latest...
BUSY US
From “Trappings” a show at the Mingei Museum, 2017. In my small town holiday parades, many horses work saddles like this. • Busy me. Sometimes busy is good. I cheated yesterday by ta...
SMALL PROJECTS
I must confess what you already knew…I’m a slob. I take jewelry off and put it in a pot on top of my dresser. I don’t just throw things around anymore, I don’t decorate with my bracelets on n...
SISTERS
Milaka, Amber, and Margot. Amber is in the health field and has a lovely new web page, New You Coaching. Margot will be going back to school for a CNA license…and has a job lined up at a...
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW...
…nothing petty in this pace. Home things. They creep up on you. Today was carpet cleaning day. It’s not as bad as main drain replace day…not at all. We had to look up the date of my pul...
CATCHING UP
Peaceful here today. Sunshine here or there. A monsoonal mess is moving in from the south, and the humidity is appalling. He’s tucked inside with his Mountains of wrecked cars, and I will be...
REFLECTIONS
Doggedly, and perhaps without much charm, I finally finished Photoshopping the Comic Con images. I’ve been tired, and I am aware that it’s not an excuse. Napping is me these days. Without a t...
A WONDERFUL VISIT
Saturday was delightful. Nothing quiet or well mannered about this day at all. We joined the Automotive Museum Volunteers for a picnic in the park. Best of all, Grandson Alex, his lady and he...
THE FAMILY JEWELER
There are two jewelers in OB. When OB was a Hippy Town, this man was the hippy jeweler. Lovely work but long beard and no shoes. Lovely, kind man too. For a year or so, he was king of th...
ZOE AND THE BLUE DRAGON
All our granddaughter Zoe wanted was a dragon. We have taken her to concerts and to other things, but she was a typical small child. The first year we took her to Comic Con, she was nervou...
PORTRAITS FROM THURSDAY
There weren’t as many colorful costumes this year at Comic Con. I know that many of you aren’t as fascinated by this sub-culture as I am, but I find it a wonderfully creative world. These folks...
CHEESE QUISADILLIS
No, I haven’t the faintest idea about who she is, but granddaughter Zoe will know. I finally went through Thursdays images, and put the best of them into a Facebook album. Yes, I said someth...
COSTUMES BE US
Fallout 4. Viking Woman That was a “good first try” said the Society for Creative Anachronism ladies. It’s back to a normal Monday at last. Swim, home for breakfast, stretch clas...
FREE DAY
• Today is our last day Comic Con free. Tomorrow afternoon, we are off to the convention center to pick up our volunteer badges. I’m looking forward to seeing friends again, and wondering ho...
UNDERBELLY
Torrey Pines above the ocean. Torrey Pines slough. I love the world I see from the train. The great swaths of hills, the miles of ocean and sand, but I am just as fascinated by th...
