Sent to me this morning by an old friend ( Read more... )

I went to Crown this weekend, leaving Friday and returned early Sunday so I could get ready to go to the Theatre that night to see WICKED.  Crown was nice  but w-i-n-d-y!  If several kind gentles had not come forward to help me, there's no way I could have gotten my tent set up.  It took 3 of us to hold it down while dear Sven pounded in the pegs ( Read more... )

In case anyone has not seen this yet, it was sent to me by our friend Margrethe Ravn.

"As many people know, SCA lost two very well loved ladies in 2007
due to complications with Breast Cancer;
Mistress *Aja du Jardin
* and Mistress *Teresa le Marchant
*. In remembrance, I have volunteered to walk the three day walk based in San Francisco in October of ( Read more... )

The Cowell Chimney is going down today after all these years as a landmark!

Am I the only one out there who did NOT like Slumdog Millionaire?  I rented it and watched it last night.  I found it more distressing than entertaining.  Movies about the mean things people to to other people do not appeal to me, not even when the victim triumphs in the end.  I just keep thinking about how rotten the bad people are.

Do people ( Read more... )

It's already your birthday on the east coast, so I'm not too early  to wish

the best of everything to a really great guy!

Apparently this pleasantly cool weather is great for tomatoes.  It looks like I'll be cooking down a lot of tomato sauce pretty soon. My 3 vines are covered with green tomatoes.  Way more than I could need for salads or eating out of hand.  I've eaten several of the tiny golden ones.  The big beefsteaks look like they are doing very well -- may be ( Read more... )

It feels like we have been moved to some other hemisphere. It sure does not feel like the CA I know!.  I needed wear a jacket to walk the dogs this morning, and my legs and feet were so chilly this evening that I went in and put on some sweat pants.  IN JUNE!

Where are we?

I was wondering if there was a Whole Foods market anywhere near where I live, and not just 10 or 15 miles away, so I searched it.  Google listed all their competitors also.  So then I looked for Trader Joe's.  It listed every grocery store in the county, I think, including all the Safeway stores.  That's interesting.  Handy, but if someone googled ( Read more... )

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Notice received in my e-mail today telling about Consumer Report's successes and  asking for contributions for their  continuing work

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"With virtually no notice to its more than 200 million users, Facebook tried to slip through an astonishingly invasive plan to ( Read more... )