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Back in the Land of Flowers

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Snowy-Boulder

I thought I’d be gone just a couple of weeks but as it turned out, I stayed in Connecticut until February 14th.  I spent most of my time at Gaylord Hospital’s Transitional Living Center; we called it Traurig House. I had all the right clothes, but traveling from our winter, which is a joke since [...]

Bookshop Santa Cruz

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Bookshop

I finally had a chance to go downtown today to pick up my stash of books. I could see that the stash had grown overnight. Some kind elf, who hadn’t been available when I went in the first time, had added a few books on stroke to my collection. I’m leaving on the 12th to [...]

Why I Don’t Twitter

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Cafe-Au-Something

This is why I don’t Twitter. Here we go with my day. I checked my email and cleared spam from my blog. Then I went off to the Museum of Art and History to meet Marlene and Judy for a Cafe au Something at Lulu’s. Lulu’s has three locations and the man who owns this [...]

Belated Happy Holidays

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Making-Cookies

I would have done this sooner but I got hit again (twice this month) with digital filth and even though I keep back ups religiously, it’s a time consuming, boring job to re-load everything. Jim had just built me a new PC, faster and bigger, so I’m isolating this sweet thing from the web and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

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A Seagull

As always we lazy bums went to Zelda’s on the Beach again this year. They cook, do the dishes, give us good sun and surf and there were no peas this year. The seagull gave thanks for the hamburger bun he stole from someone’s plate. I had a slice of Powershot Elf with a side [...]

Rules, Rules, Rules

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Well.  Some things just drive me crazy. My sister is in a re-hab facility after suffering a stroke. I wanted to send her a DVD player so she could watch movies.  The remote for the television in her room is so outdated it can barely find a channel. I found out that I was perfectly [...]

Jean-Jacques Goldman and the Welsh for Dinner

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Beautiful Flowers

I prepared dinner for my guests to Jean-Jacques Goldman, my Bose turned up so loud I didn’t hear Jim come in from shopping for more wine…can’t have too much of that. My menu had to be kid friendly for two, vegetarian for one, and the rest of us enjoyed a pork roast stuffed with apples [...]

Sweet Young Thing – Middle Aged Grump

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a-leap-of-faith

These are such uncertain times but this young thing didn’t have a care in the world. She quit her teaching job, packed up her laptop and took off, landing in Santa Cruz for just awhile. After that, who knows. I was in The Ugly Mug for a meeting. There really isn’t a better place to [...]

Rhod Does His Business in the Loo

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dad-in-the-loo

Sometimes things just don’t work out as planned. By the time Rhod got to my house with the boys after school, it was too late to dash home for his conference call. My neighbor had started up his jack hammer again, diligently cutting up his concrete walkway and the only place in my house where [...]