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TRAINING TO LA
A wisp of steam comes from the valve. The engine is alive. We parked in Old Town. After I learned how to use the new ticket machine, we had an easy trolley ride to the San Diego train st...
ALL ABOARD
…adapted from a blog entry written on July 1, 2011. I woke early this chill February morning. My bag is packed for the day, and I was eager to get going. My husband kindly drove me down to t...
#3751
The Santa Fe Northern type steam engine number 3751. It’s going to be a busy two weeks. Pride here in San Diego starts tomorrow. Next week, beginning Thursday we have Comic Con. In the m...
COSTUMES ON HANGERS
Yes I know they droop rather than drape. They are shapeless rather than cohesive. But they are done and ready to wear. What is G’s costume? It’s from Fallout 4: a PC, Playstation, and Xbox gam...
IT'S ENTERTAINMENT
2010 G’S Comic Con costume glitters. Mine needs pressing. We are almost finished, and I am so glad. I’m going to take a few weeks off now then get back to Bobbies Quilt. 2010 I have no idea ...
COSTUMINGS
2014 There are moments that my brain flat out shuts down not understanding what I want it to do. My hat needs ties. That little thing ground me to a halt yesterday after long periods of r...
ORTS AND OTHER ISSUES
The Queen and an attendant. The days are hot. I’m skipping my exercise class to sew. There’s just under two weeks until the start of Comic Con. I’m not ready. For me, the dress is oste...
ORTS AND OTHER ISSUES
The Queen and an attendant. The days are hot. I’m skipping my exercise class to sew. There’s just under two weeks until the start of Comic Con. I’m not ready. For me, the dress is oste...
PADDLE OUT
We have this awful tendency to isolate on holidays. This year I told G, not suggested shame on me, that he could choose what to do about fireworks. After a bit of poking, he picked the Ocean...
The Flag
This flag is flying from the Star of India. Have a wonderful Independence Day.
EPIGRAPHIC
Taken from the top of the Point Loma lighthouse with Fort Rosecrans in the middle distance. We live over to the right on the top of the point. It’s quiet and peaceful here with almost emp...
NOT A STRAIGHT SEAM AMONG THEM
SD County Fair: One of the Needle Arts first place winners. I woke this morning with a nightmare fresh in my mind. I had really made a half inch error putting in the facings on my Comic C...
A HOLIDAY WEEKEND
It’s not a four day weekend for us. Darn it. I mildly pleaded with him to take half a day off next week. I’ve become a nagging wife reminding him that the gym opens at 0530. Reminding him th...
PICNIC IN THE SUN
Dole Pacific leaving port. I stood to make dinner, and looked out the doors. The sun was shining gloriously, the trees sparkled, and it was altogether beautiful outside. “Why are we eating ins...
THE GATEKEEPER
His shorts were eye catching. Before the gates opened, this man is the one that kept us all in order, and kept us laughing outside the Fair. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. H...
FAIR AND PARTLY FOGGY 1
Our county fair has a theme every year. This year it’s a western focus, and we were greeted by these two gentlemen on their horses. Everybody wore cowboy hats…even the elevator operators. C...
FAIR FOODS BE US
We got to the Fair early enough to get the very first parking place. The sun came out in waves through the fogs, and we set out with camera’s in hand to record the fair as a happening. We ate...
TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
Other than my blood sugar being sky high from all the cookie crumbles I’ve eaten…(the cookie lady at Cravory sold us a huge bag of broken cookies), everything is fine. I did get the top of my ...
OH SO SLOWLY
Artist: Roger DeWeese. Title: Torrey Pines Ravens. Media: Sheet metal. Date: 1916. Shown at the San Diego County Fair. Give me a little anesthetic; I doze much of the next day. The C...
TRIMMED
Another of those pesky but necessary doctor’s appointments for me today. His CT scan results came back glowingly normal. I am so grateful. My biopsy results came in yesterday saying that the ...
SUMMER SOLSTICE
…or we are off to the fair. We are heading to the Fair this Sunday. I flat out love the Fair. I love all the fuss, the sunshine, the massive color assault, even the noise, the critters,...
2016 WOODS
A wooden Case Traction engine from the 2016 fair. It does look as if it works.
THE COUNTY FAIR
We still have a genuine, old style, county fair here. There’s a midway, bands all throughout the venue, prizes for foods, displays, collections, and of course quilting. There are prizes for th...
THE CROWS
One crow getting chewed out…illustration for a children’s book. Artist: Maud Amy Robson Gunthorp. Media: Pastilles. Date: 1930”s. We are off to celebrate a birthday. 60 years, that’s qu...
MY HEROS
Captain Poolie…doing better but feeling worse. She’s my hero. I didn’t think I would be nervous about the skin cancer surgery…but I was. On hold most of the day, that was me. I did not...
