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Monday, August 20, 2012

+ PET ALERT! +

Pet Alert Please Rescue Ruthie and Freddie copy

...and may we never put it to use.

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Tom & Gayle’s Unobstructed Ocean View

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Enjoy the honeymoon, you guys!

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Here’s how it looks if you run by really fast…


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…or on an unskilled pogo stick.

So Cute and Yet So Wrong

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Ruthie and Freddie

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Tim’s Party

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Linden Street Brewery
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Satan would like for you to have these three largish taquitos. The price? Oh, put your wallet away. No money! A mere trifle, really. Why, I doubt that you’ll even notice it’s gone.  It’s just….

  • Your 
  • Immortal 
  • SOUL!

Friends

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Lovely party. Thanks, all!

Sunday, August 05, 2012

Santa Barbara–Hendry’s Beach

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Kelp

 

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“Lobster” claw

 

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There’s a restaurant in La Fonda on Baja whose email address I’m going to have to find.

 

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Ker-splash (pelicano)

 

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Mid-tide

 

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Mary’s foot with dried seaweed

 

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Mary’s foot with dried seaweed

 

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Angle of Repose

Galaxy in the Living Room

Galaxy in the Living Room

Saturday, August 04, 2012

Prickly Pears

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In Ramona’s garden, Santa Barbara

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Mary’s Birthday Dinner at Chez Panisse

Chez Panisse lamp

Partially silvered candle glass

 

Chez panisse menu

Menu.  Oy, that bisque! The evening was delightful, but exhausting.  On the way home, Mary criticized every stitch of clothing that I had on, my vocabulary and pronunciation, my social skills, and my cellular structure. “Mitochondrial DNA gets passed down matrilineally, right?  I thought so.  Mmm-hmmm. Explains a lot.”

 

Gabor Mate in berkeley poster

Look who’s coming to town!

Monday, July 30, 2012

Hail, Hail, Fredonia, Land of the Brave and Free

 

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Schwai’s

 

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Thanks for opening up on a Monday to sell me brats, Mike!

 

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“Just pull around to the back so nobody thinks we’re open, okay?”

 

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Across the street (W3940 County Hwy H)

 

Schwai's mural

Mural & Antique Store

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Packing & Shipping (?)

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Y.O.B.S

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Fishing Trip to Pewaukee Lake

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Djeneba getting some reading done at Smokey’s Muskie Shop.

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Andy Pilots the boat.  He took over from me after I killed the engine and couldn’t figure out how to get it started back up. Andy read the directions. Started the engine.
Show-off.

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Andy musters the gear.

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Bruce hauls in the anchor. About a bale of seaweed, and several pounds of rich fragrant Pewaukee mud.  Catch of the day. Photo by dj-bor.

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Djeneba indicates the diameter of the cold, hate-filled eyeball of the dread Pewaukee Lake Kolossal Kraken we outwitted by making it laugh (knock knock, who’s there?, yo momma, yo momma who?, yo momma has suckered tentacles and a propulsion siphon) and then, mid-guffaw, propping open its evil voracious beak with our oars. Better luck next time, you despicable, spineless (invertebrate) chromatophore-laden cephalopod.

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Back safely on terra firma. Great trip.

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…now this.  A painting of a dog in a sombrero. At Seesters in Pewaukee. ¡Olé!

Late July, Early August Daily Drawings

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The kid in the window seat on my SFO-CHI flight drew something like this.  I copied it, all surreptitious-like.

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

Wisconsin

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Squall at MKE. Exiting the Bardo (for now).

 

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Badger

 

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Djeneba dancing with a badger. 

Warm golden Wisconsin evening on the lake.

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