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time to just enjoy
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jul/05/27373/ i'll cya when the leaves begin to fly...have a fun packed summer everyone
Nan and the Greenstalks
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Nan and the Greenstalks
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/jun/24/26743/ The sight almost knocked me over Not literally but figuratively As I rounded the front corner of the mobile to water the hollyhocks,grapes and tomatoes The tomatoes had grown so tall and luxurious in just a week I was …
Freedom Isn't Free
i was 2 yrs old when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor...WWII was suppose to be the War to end all War... i remember the mood...the black out curtains...the fear of submarines prowling off our coast after all if they could …
Only in Hillcrest
http://sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/apr/29/23644/ Put together two high jinx young ones...their clown of a French Bulldog...a dozen plus dog lovin' friends and relatives...a Sunday in April when it isn't raining and a dog friendly restaurant which would be only in Hillcrest and it's …
Due North for Hockey Memories
watching the Hockey games this weekend reminded me of a trip i had ...looked so forward to and will never forget to Canada as i rooted for Vancouver....my mind was flood with that day i arrived at the 49th parellel …
still feeling the Attachment (edited for capitalization,punctuation,spelling and flow)
How long has it been since first Natalynn Winningway's story began to unfold I was rushing along....writing at least 4 to 8 posts a week and suddenly i got derailed..... I blamed it on a overly aggressive Blue moon. Someone …
The Classic Do Over Movie...Punxsutawney Phil say 6 more weeks
"Groundhog's Day"....it's been so long since i've seen it i'd forgotten all the important..salient and hilarious features....DOG it's smaltzy....and rude...and sarcastic and totally improbable....yet i found myself falling for the improbability like a hopeless dope on an IV of 15% …
for all of u who are serving or have served
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MjPmmCtHmfE Happy Thanksgiving!!! Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into …
Remembering a Gardener's Foxes
i had a friend...a friend that had a huge back yard that took hours and hours to mow....his persona was as sweet as St Francis of Assisi...and he called the birds in with his quiet open demeanor...and the mixed seed …
Kiting/Dragon and Fish kites
looking out over the blue Pacific from the cliffs at Blacks Beach is inspiring even if you don't have a kite harness strapped to your back..... i was talking to an old friend today and as we chatted a little …
Just A Few Steps Away
we laughed...laughed like there was no tomorrow...but then my breasts are easy to laugh at i make everyone wear the 3.5 reader glasses when looking at them to enhance their proclivity proclivity..er...um..is that the right word? we were discussing my …
Drifting Away Snippet
when the cowpoke's grandson started his trip from San Diego to Ottawa he'd finished a fitful vacation there why he needed to travel a thousand miles to prowl even he couldn't surmise he'd left his Stang for his 2nd cousin …
The Hitcher Snippet
it came up blazing...screaming out a summer imperative.... ~~the golden waves of grain parted by a modern Moses called asphalt~~ ~*~ wheatland ripened a Stang...ROAD CRUISADER....old..... renovated.....beloved...... dusty desert winding highway...top down..... wheels singing the song of hot asphalt and …
The Good Mother
she had no practice to become the "good mother".....she had no "good mother" of her own so she had no model.....she only remembered her mother and her mother's sisters drinking....being too loud and cuffing her and her sister around......hiding in …