Lentil Meatloaf

11:42 pm - wide awake. I stuck my nose out the back door. The air was cool and inviting. The barking dog & traffic discouraged me from going further. Last night I made her a lentil meatloaf.

Cookie!

It's been decades since i watched my weight spiral upward. Astonished, i kept a pad in the bathroom cabinet to record it. It was 155 when I tested for 1st degree black-belt in '93. Despite trips to the faculty weight-room at lunch, extra workouts at home on the heavy bag and riding bicycle eight miles to and from the University, when, almost five years later, it neared 200 I went to the doctor; my thyroid had given out.

Every now & then i have a cookie.

Balloon Fiesta

Hit whar uh nice event in The '70s. The smog was so bad in the '80s & '90s we figured the only people who came didn't know any better. Since then a couple of coal-fired generating stations have closed and more stringent vehicle emissions standards have improved visibility...somewhat. As you see, the mountains a mere mile away are occluded. Air-quality today is "moderate."

Mañuel got new, shinier wheels for his truck. The old ones are serving as yard decor in front of the house. He has a GREAT stereo system that announces his arrival; loud muffler BLATS signal departure.

Project 2025

 

Sound of Music Parody

Fire-breathing Alligator

 

The horizon line drawn by the escarpment of the West Mesa a lava flow from a mere 20,000 years earlier.

Archery

Revised 1887 edition of Horace Ford's book The Theory and Practice of Archery.

Dr. Saxton Pope befriended Ishi who taught him how to make bows.

The book Ishi's Brain.

Cicada

Perhaps it was because I was small, but maybe they were really that much larger. Memory has them at around two inches. Their buzzing fascinated and early on became the marker of the arrival of summer.

As I sat on the veranda wondering in my deafness if they were still going on, I saw the carapace outlined against the sky. 

Meaning to add it to my display case, lost the thought before I could act. When do we recognize dementia? 

It was still there a few days later and Michelle retreived it. And she knew where to place it.