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Spring Renewal
We are home, and our home is dirty. Ah reality be dirt. There’s a carpet cleaning special for 99 dollars. We need one stairway and one landing cleaned, and that’s in our budget. Since we don’...
To Home in the Morning
Tomorrow morning, we pack and leave this small hotel room. It was a good idea. We ate most of the foods we brought for breakfast and lunch. Dinner was out on the town every evening. Thursda...
Really Interesting
It’s really interesting. Fascinating, actually. It doesn’t take long for them to get the buildings ready. In our complex, they are doing two long buildings and a short building each day. Row...
Taking a Triip: Not Taking a Trip
Slowly we pack. Most of the day has been spent inching our way out of home and into a motel. Good clothes hanging. Can I find my work apron? No. G packs his meds and computer cables togethe...
Awareness
It was a revolutionary idea, and a Southwestern College art professor brought it to our city. Earth Day. I had no idea what he was talking about. Bob Matheny was a noted artist and teacher. ...
Books On Books
Even as I begin clearing out the kitchen things and my clogged closet, I’m also sorting out books for the Store. I ask myself, will I read it again? Was it worth reading in the first place? E...
Progress
L. Tracy, Timothy, and Mage at an SDSU Art Gallery. The doctor is pleased with me. Slowly the weight is coming off. In the 1989 picture above, I’m at the weight I am aiming for….178. I can ...
Links and Other Things
It’s spring. The trees outside our windows are leafing out in lovely light greens. It’s time for baseball on their beautiful greensward. And, at the store, we are having our Spring sale. I’m...
Unmoving
I have no idea how bad backs happen, but I have one. Sedentary and unmoving be me. Indeed. Tuesday noonish, pain began creeping around the corners of my back. It was still with me Wednesday ...
BOOM
Cannon on the Surprise. Life is always filled with small things scattered about. It’s almost tax time. We are slow with the new tax lady. She with us too. They are tenting here for termit...
Being Social
The Conehead and I in 1984. • G and I have had a very social year so far. He came back from the convention reduced to his usual delightful self. Now that he’s home again, he sits in his co...
Appreciation
Just taking that vitamin D has made a major difference in my life. I started cutting on that long stalled quilt. I wrote a children’s picture book story inspired by the ladies in my morning cla...
99 X 89
I like days where things get accomplished. Since my allergies are being tame today, I spent more time in the pool this morning. That always enervates me. Later, even small things like plannin...
Quilts of Our Lives
Found quilt: Three patch. The Crow Quilt is moving forward in my mind. At last. At first it was a full sized quilt covered in crows. An art quilt. Then it was a hanging moving from dark ...
Four
This morning, the air was a clear, sharp, cloudless blue. The water in the pool sparkled almost with glee. Not a lot of us were bouncing around to our instructor’s enthusiasm, but those who ca...
Two
Bobbie suggested, don’t you like that word, that I post five photos of my latest work on Facebook. My latest works are these roses. Not acres of them, and this time not a single bug, darn it. ...
In the Sunshine
Home from an intense weekend. There were roses this time. There was also the news that the old part of this hotel was to be bulldozed bit by bit over the next few years. The wide variety of t...
Staycation 2016
I’m off to shoot more roses. We have four days down in the valley at a convention. This is the one where I normally get my best rose shots. We will be home in a few days….or more often to see...
Birthday 11
Leaving behind all the suitcases and detritus for our upcoming staycation, we head north for a few hours. It’s Zoe’s birthday, and her mom promised her a party at ChuckECheese. We got there at...
Half Packing...
….or the laying out of stuff. We are heading to the Spring Round up in the Valley. Every year, three thousand drunks, plus or minus a few, gather together for a long spring weekend. We celebr...
A Greening Day
Knotted seat or step on a barrel. Mother and Gunny used to take me to McDini’s for corned beef when I was a kid. Talking about this in the pool this morning, and all the folks that grew up ...
Travels with George
We thought we would take a short drive north with our camera’s on this beautiful day. What vehicle? We’d take Grumpy as he needed gas. First to Costco. They have the cheapest gas at $2.39 a ...
Words, Wonderful Words
One third of the books at work. I haven’t been finishing books lately. I bring it home, and I discover that I truly dislike something in the book. Perhaps the hero isn’t an ok person. The c...
Other People's Stuff
Bobbies chair, Gimpa’s trash can, Grandma’s clock, my quilt, and a La Jolla ladies mola. I’ve always lived with other people’s stuff. Perhaps my mother did too until the day she bought a sofa ...
BOOM
I confess. I read yesterday. I still have two bookcases to go through…one today. Those were two powerful memoir/reminiscences I read. The sort of thing that sticks with you. I have the Brad...
