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Lemons
Image copyright images.forbes.com Starting down an isle at Smart & Final, my eye was caught by a giant bag of lemons. Lemons en mass. Many lemons, small but in a potent yellow. Lots a lemo...
Sunday Snippits
I like writing blog entries early in the day. It’s cooler then. I don’t stick to the arms of my chair, but often my brain isn’t awake enough to say things. Now it’s ten, and it still isn’t a...
Greens
Our desert city is infused with greens, and we do live in a desert. Our lawns glow with the early morning sun on their green carpets. Worst of all, our condo is surrounded by leafy green trees...
A Friendship
Friendships are precious things. My opinion is that one can never have enough friends. But unwatched, time whittles away at them. Sometimes friends vanish not just into other cities, towns, ...
Retirement
There are these long days when all creativity has paused. I’ve done my exercise class, the house is clean, the bed made…of all things, and the cars washed. I’ve made menus and grocery shopped...
Ommmmmmmm.......
Sheep at the fair. Another lovely day. Really nice. Quiet. Ommmmm….. Imagine. Yesterday I took a nap. G played his game. We bought the cake makings for the meeting and baked the sheet ...
I Like Days Like This
A Plein Air landscape We were very busy yesterday….without Aleve. I like days like this. Bobbie and her new boyfriend stopped by to give us the bowls to her old mixer. She also brought down ...
Thanks for Asking
1966, Photo by Charlie Davis.* Thank you for asking how I am. Last time I fell, I did a decent tuck and roll injuring only one knee. There were kind, comforting folks to help me up too. Th...
Repair Order
I talk about my old truck as if it were a human and the pool ladies laugh. Haven’t any of them named their cars their trucks with some word that fits its quirks and foibles or even its disaste...
Mending
Mending, that’s what my hands have been struggling with my hands, my eyes, my soul all failing me today as I mend holes in my hand braces, I mend a favorite shirt my favorite pool dress, favori...
More "Delete, Delete...."
The Federales pacing our cruise ship into Cabo, 2008.. Is the picture badly composed, is it out of focus, or has it no content. Out it goes. Every few years I need to review my thousands of p...
Bridge Cloths
Rusting steam engine, Skagway AK, 2009. Thursday I dug around in data bases and deleted hundreds of photos from my photohost. It was a little like cleaning out the linen closet or a bookcase. ...
Back to Earth
Random House advertising the new George RR Martin book. Scribner’s were around the corner as was Mysterious Galaxy Books…a local store. My messes are tidied up, George is so organized there we...
The 2014 Comic Con Photos
Outside the Convention Center. I spent the afternoon creating an album of the Comic Con photos for 2014. If you go to Mage Bailey’s Facebook page, click on “photos” then Albums, you will find ...
Home with a Smile
We had a lot of fun this Comic Con, and the high light of it all for me was to see the “Boxtroll” panel in Hall H. I give you the advance report that it’s wonderful. We were charmed. The res...
A Glimpse of Friday at Comic Con
Himself: Commented that this was the first year we attended more panels than we spent time on the floor. Loved the Firefly video panel. Costume day today. Herself: This is also the fi...
On The Streets of Comic Con
*On the Streets outside Comic Con are amazing folks in great costumes. 2013. Himself: Picked up badges in the valley yesterday. Bought Sunday’s cake makings yesterday. Fed the neighbor...
Comic Con Time
It’s that time of year again. Fun, games, panels, costumes, and daring-do all under the sun down by the bay. I aerobiced for the last time, tidy the house for the last time, plan meals out fo...
Books, Books, 2
Cookbooks at the store….50% Off. Here at home, I am just about done dusting the books both upstairs and down. I’d do a shelf and get caught up in a volume. Another shelf and another book woul...
Killing those Dust Mites
Before. Cleaned and two shelves created for art supplies. The last few days, with orders from the doctor to keep on moving, I’ve been killing the dust mites. We are really allergic to the du...
Moving Along...
Random carpet shot on the Island Breeze, 2014. Himself: Worked hard yet spoiled me rotten. Herself: Again, hot tub. Work: I lasted two and a half hours at work. He made breakfast and lunc...
Keeping it Simple
Much better today. I’m still not tap dancing on table tops, and I’m slow. Glad I kept Duck’s cane. I can stand up straight tho, which is vastly better than yesterday. I did the hot tub this...
Here a Luzzati
I came home from the gym yesterday, bent over to put bags of books into the back seat of the car, and my back seized up. Spent yesterday in bed. Sproing. Today I’m seeing a new doctor in the...
A Visit to Peter's House
Ship historian and journalist, Peter Knego, began the second part of his life by doing something unique. He salvages art, furniture, ceramics, and other things from ships that have been beach...
Dribbs and Drabs
Bunting flying from the Cabrillo Lighthouse. When I told Margot that we were heading north to visit a friend, she had trouble not laughing. “You are leaving the beach, mother?” And then she l...
