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No wrong turns

Little BitsMay 31, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I had one of those things happen today. I was running some errands in Takoma Park and felt a need to get home, though I didn't have anything I had to do at any particular time. Ninety-nine, maybe 98, percent of the time I head home off Rt 32 a particular and specific way. Today -- I…

Style, an inside game

MemoriesMay 30, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

An image of this particular woman pops into my head every once in awhile. She's about 5' 7", short hair, long flowing pants, wedge shoes, a cute top, and she looked like a million bucks! It was 2002, and I was at a play in Lake Worth, Florida, where I lived for a smidge of time…

Predictions, hopes and the Lasso Way

Things I PonderMay 30, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Mere days until It ends. It, the show, the characters, their lives, the intertwining, the developments, the story arcs. How will it end? I don't know and assume I'll be happily surprised, but that hasn't stopped me from guessing. What about you? What do you see coming / hope happens as the final episode of Ted…

Mind, blown

Memories, SynchronicitiesMay 28, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Back when I was in high school, my family took a trip to visit my grandparents in San Diego. We went during the extended Christmas vacation time (that's what it was called back then), and I remember it being rather bizarre seeing Christmas lights on large cacti and palm trees. We didn't visit often, nor…

Fallen fruit

Stories big and smallMay 28, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Decades back in a chapter of my life lived long ago, our family was visiting my father's parents in the San Diego area. Escondido to be specific, though I'm not sure that's a particularly relevant detail here. We didn't visit them often as 1) California was far away in a time before the internet, websites…

Random

Little BitsMay 27, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Found. A Barbie Doll tucked into a fence at the Long Reach garden plot. What the heck! Art? A political statement? A lost-and-found. I don't know. Probably never will. Such is the randomness of life.

Eat!

Little BitsMay 21, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Hah! Arrived home from this-ing and that-ing just in time to catch the tail end of my community's potluck gathering at the gazebo. Everyone had eaten their full, and I was encouraged to eat as much as I wanted. So I did. Cream cheese-stuffed mini peppers, avocado toast, blintzes, super-chocolatey little cupcakes, a pie made from a…

That’s Keny!

SynchronicitiesMay 21, 20232KViews 1Like 0Comments

I swear: I was just doing a wee bit of grocery shopping. But then all this other stuff happened. I was at Whole Foods Friday afternoon, where--of late--I've been buying organic pork sausage on the regular. (Love their loose breakfast sausage.) The strawberries actually had some strawberry-smell to them, so I got a few packs of them,…

Ready!

Little BitsMay 19, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Worth every minute of the labor to make this happen! From rusty and crusty to gorgeous and ready for cooking! Read up on the process, watched a video or two; made it happen.

Gonna miss ’em

Burning Man, CultchaMay 19, 20232KViews 0Likes 0Comments

In general, I'd rather ignore a TV show until it's played out, all seasons are done, rumors of a sequel have been squashed, and I can now binge-watch with wild abandon. That's just how I roll. But when I bought something* recently and got three free months of Apple TV with my purchase, I asked my…

Many grubs were eaten

ExperiencesMay 17, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I spent much of the day at the two garden plots my mother and I share. She manages the plots and makes sure plants get planted at the right time, and I'm mostly labor. Today was a day of labor. Lots of weed killing and getting some rows articulated with some nice wood gifted to…

Reaching for the skies

NatureMay 15, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I've seen a lot of dandelions in my life. Countless! I know a "normal" dandelion when I see one. I was weeding in a patch of tall lilies when I saw this monstrosity. This is the length—pun intended—to which a dandelion weed will grow when it is battling for its survival and sunshine amidst a patch…