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Announcement to the Very Few
We are henceforth (actually, somewhat pre-forth), after 10 years of idle chit-chat, moving this puppy to Tumblr.
I'm not gonna mention
That I cleaned and repaired
The gas grill this morning
Since you might be hungry
A fitting farewell to
The enigmatic annals of
Of abundant time sans
Cash payout -
Coasting
The schedule for these entries continues to be erratic but that's what vacation will do for you. I sit here in OS as the morning sun spills onto the deck and the ocean mumbles its continuous mumble. Last night we hosted Stan and Peggy for dinner. They have put an offer in on a house in OS: a tiny little place down near the main road across a ( Read more... ) -
Back on Track
So...I've missed two weekends and am therefore off my feed. The first was attributable to the Asa/Ashley wedding, the second to a lack of centeredness. But here I am back at the coast for vacation and although it is the first morning and I'm hoping to achieve a greater sense of perspective over the coming days, I'm ready to post!
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So, I don't know, it's August. Been hot outside. Not at the coast, through. The news is full of mayhem. Israel/Gaza, Ukraine/Russia, Syria/Syria, Afghanistan/Taliban, Iraq/ISIS, Nigerian girlnappers, southern governors sending out their militias to protect our borders from invading children... It's wild! Elections are on the horizon and so ( Read more... ) -
Mourning
Feeling pretty wiped. Saturday morning early, it was up and out to the airport to hop a plane for Oakland. Joel picked me up at OAK, drove us back to his house and gave me the keys to his car. And I was off to Petaluma, under the sunshine and over the crowded highways and bridges.
I pulled into the church parking lot about 1/2 hour before ( Read more... ) -
Comings and Goings
Summer, indeed. Working all week seemed somehow misplaced. i came out of the five days feeling that icky isolation/inadequacy/exhaustion thing. I was also coming down with a cold that made my head feel pressured and my seemingly necessary sense of urgency feeling vague. So it was into the Subaru and out to OS Friday evening with tangible ( Read more... ) -
Worldly Cup
Beating the heat this weekend meant a trip to the coast. And man, that did it. Oceanside has been overcast and 60s: sweatshirt weather.
In the ongoing war against the border pines, I had a good day. I topped two of them using a hand saw and the results have gotten positive reviews for opening up the feel of the back yard, improving the view and not ( Read more... ) -
Cold Down Below
In the hardships of bourgeois life, I am staying out of the basement because the air conditioning is making it frosty. Here in the living room as I type on my ipad, two Swedish women are busy in the kitchen preparing my favorite comfort food, pytttipanna. (Scandinavian hash) Isabelle and Helen have been with us since Monday, when they arrived from ( Read more... ) -
Friends
It's been a spate of the ailments of others. We visited Sally who had a back operation - bringing a dinner to her house to the relief of her boyfriend and temporary caretaker George as well as, no doubt, herself. This was a few days after the midsomer celebration on a patio outside an OHSU hospital to cheer up LC who is undergoing a bone stem- ( Read more... ) -
Life and Death
Missed. The weekend flew by at the Coast with Midsomer celebrations and all. "All" being the ongoing war with the trees, the ongoing counterinsurgency with the grass, the dismantling of the picnic table, the construction of the beds and the sitting in the sun on the deck with a cold Tecate. Wedged in there was viewing the Rumstick play that Eben ( Read more... )