If not, you certainly deserve a multi-day celebration:

Happy Birthday, elzed !!!!

Maybe this year will be better than the last. Come what may, however, every year is better for having you in it!

So still time to sneak in a heartfelt Happy Birthday to the most wonderful new home and puppy owner mel39!!!

I hope you had a marvelous day!

I've been a little AWOL because, frankly, it's the worst-case scenario: The transmission on the car, she is finished. So now I have to have the car towed back to the Land of Oak, wherein I will decide if I want to pour roughly 3 months' income into the car I already have or take the money and buy someone else's old clunker ( Read more... )

I hope ( Read more... )

. . . then in a lovely house with acres of gardens, fresh fruits and veggies to pick and a cantankerous cat. But stuck I am, at least until Wednesday ( Read more... )

So, I thought my car was fixed the day before I drove up to Sebastopol. Not so much.

It went totally bananas today, and none of the things that could be wrong with it are especially heartening. As in, it could be quite an expensive repair.

Luckily, miss_begonia's aunt and uncle live only a few towns away and have hooked me up with their excellent mechanic ( Read more... )

I kind of like posting right before bed. It makes me feel like I'm having a last chat with a friend. Like summer camp for really, really sad people ( Read more... )

I am happily ensconced in beautiful Sebastopol, CA for the next 10 days, where I hope to run into Tom Waits at the Gravenstein Apple Fair this weekend.

I am housesitting/cat sitting at a lovely house with a bananas garden/deck/fountain/lounging area, halfway between Bodega Bay and The Bohemian Grove (of Tales of the City fame), and couldn't ask ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday, rivers_bend! I hope you are having a lovely day.

In other happy news, as nearly everyone must know by now, Prop. 8 was overturned earlier today. I know it will be appealed in infinitum, but it's nice to be able to hold my head up as a Californian again ( Read more... )

To the most gracious and lovely of women, Chazper!

It's been too long since I've seen you, my friend. I think we need to have you out for a visit!

I hope your birthday was a lovely one.