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Saturday Fun at the Fair
The skies are June Gloomish, and the weather is damp. No rain, but there’s a hurricane down south. The locals are used to this, but the poor tourists are not. It’s the perfect weather to go ...
Early Mission Horrors
…a summation of the horrors of the early Spanish Conquest Lily pond at the Mission San Juan Capistrano. The Conquistadores arrived in the Americas in 1492, bringing with them disease and the be...
Cough Till I Laugh
Tired of the blue living room, I was determined to change it over to red. Cushion covers, rugs, art, that sort of stuff. Could I find the pillow covers. Nowhere in the house were they to be s...
Road Trip
My wonderful friend Katy sent me a book titled San Diego in the 1930’s, the WPA Guide to America’s Finest City. She suggested we take one of the road trips listed inside and compare 2015 to 193...
A Passion for Books
Crooked bedroom books. We lived with my grandfather in a middle-aged, Cape Cod house filled with books. Every Christmas mother and Gunny would give me a good book. Every Christmas my Aunt Marg...
Not My Mother's Books
”Come Be My Guest” by Elizabeth Cadell…Image copyright Furrowed Brow. All these long years while I have been collecting Elizabeth Cadell, there was little on the internet about her. A club…a pl...
Flags
Many years ago, I photographed a Garrison sized flag on the side of a dry dock. It was a beautiful, sunny day, and the American flag glowed in the sunshine. I thought I could use the photograp...
Memorial Day 2015
The Flag on a dry dock at Ballast Point, San Diego, 2009. Taken with a 6 pixel camera that had a tired lens. Then the image was salvaged from Snapfish after one of my computer crashes. It was...
Ruthless Me
I didn’t go visit Dale today. I didn’t visit G’s father or my Father either. What I did was clean out my closet. Ruthlessly. It didn’t matter how much I paid for something, what it was, or w...
Slobby Me
It’s a three day weekend. This means I get to see more of George than the top of his head on the other side of the desk. Working at home has its advantages for the worker, but I would think th...
A Bauer Pot
Bauer Black, Vintage, Mid-Century Jardine Vase. I thought it just a dirty, black bowl and passed it by. Later in the morning, I took a couple of photographs of it then turned it over. Bauer, i...
Adornments
It’s a book day today at the store. I’m trying to rearrange my life so I have a little more time up front to play with my photos and get ready leisurely before going in and getting dust covered...
Blogspot and Notes
I’ve been thinking about the years since 1985. They’ve been mostly good years. I’ve become a new person during these many years, and I am very grateful. Some creative things aren’t in my lif...
The Weekend
Saturday was Balboa Park and Petco Park. No, the Padres didn’t win, but it was a joy to have Captain Poolie with us. Both parks looked at their best. Sunday was a lazy morning, and a visit i...
Seedys Still With Us
My 19 year friend Seedys is expected to die this week, says her husband Wild Bill. Her daughter sent out a eulogy yesterday which triggered this entry. We visited her in 2009 , and it was such...
Busy, Busy!
It’s going to be a busy fun day today. As I wrote on Facebook slightly expanded: Breakfast, Facebook three times, blog, get my hair cut while George washes the car, Lunch, Balboa Park and Museu...
32 Years
Taco dinner at the Brigantine last night. Amazing stuff marriage. We adapt or it fails. It’s worse when you both are drunks. Everything is compounded. We went from lovers, to anger, to frie...
Treasures
It’s our 32nd anniversary. This is pretty good stuff. I’m fading. I thought it was tomorrow. I need to remember to look in the appointment book far more often. Sometimes G caretakes….always...
Centennial
This WWII rocket launcher is on a Dodge, model WC55, owned by the USMC Camp Pendleton Museum. Our big central park, Balboa Park, is celebrating its centennial this year. The Park website tells ...
Mother's Day
Margaret Barnum Gunthorp, Madge, coming off the ship on a golf cruise, 1972. Golf shoes in hand, she usually carried her own clubs too. Mother’s day was invented by Anna Jarvis in 1908. As th...
Wonderful Rain
Photo Copyright: www.rygestop.com Rain High Resolution Desktop #uifpv We made it to and from the WWII Show Opening at the Automotive Museum without seeing a drop of rain anywhere. (Pictures fro...
Rueful
This will be where we sit next time. I’ve been good. The first day I went back to the pool, I lived. The second day I went to the pool and the hot tub to stretch in my normal manner. Yesterda...
Cinco de Mayo
Pad Squad member and The Padre walking across the field. It’s amateur drinking day here in along the border. Sinko de Drinko some call it. Wikipedia says, “The date is observed to commemorate ...
Wardrobe Changes
After a lazy morning in bed with CBS, we grabbed lunch and headed for the ballpark. From the freeway, we could see a Carnival ship in town. It had been unable to tie up in either LA or Catalin...
Peaceful
The three masted Barque, Star of India, with work being done on the bowsprit and the foremast before her next sail. Now in the early evening hours, there are faint clouds overhead and an orang...
