I enjoy having the blog; it provides perspective.
The comments about appreciating what one has are as relevant as ever.
I'm not adding a photo to this post as the one on the one below is more than enough. (I've since become unable to get up from the chair & have it on Craigslist.)
https://albertsturkey.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-way-it-is.html?m=1
We've begun returning Andre's driveway to it's original, pulling up the corn plants that've been harvested and taking out the melon plant that gave up all of three mediocre melons.
About 6.5 inches
There're about a half-dozen ears yet to be harvested.
The clouds!!! What'll we do when we no longer go across the street to water?
These days it's all about travels in the warrens of the web.
As we near the holiday season, here's a lullaby.
I decided, for reasons unknown, to leave the g-word capitalized.
The melody, according to Wiki, dates beck to 1818. The lyrics were written by Herr J.W. Hey who first published them in 1837. Just fyi, dontchyaknow?
I found this in Leslie Caron's memoir Thank Heaven.
It's become such a rarity it's now worthy of a blogpost. As noted in the video's description, an afternoon shower was, in the '70s and early '80s (and probably before) a common occurrence, usually happening every few days.
This is the 1st in several years.
Jessica, my hospice nurse, enjoys going to estate sales. Five months ago I mentioned my interest in a sleeved tent. Today it was delivered...brand - as in never opened - new!
I tightened up the bungee cord in the poles but otherwise it's ready to go.
Coleman Go! 4-person.
Chaco Canyon is the destination but we're thinking of one or two test runs. The National Forest campgrounds, there're two, along the Jemez River feature pit toilets, are only $2.50 for seniors and there's a noisy little river (for aqua enthusiasts, dogs and what have you.)
The Ojito Wilderness is free, doesn't have weird-smelling asphalt and best of all, no neighbors. Will i make it to either one?
Al didn't post to his blog on any kind of regular basis, but after the better part of a month and no replies to my or other peoples' inquiries, i filed a missing persons report with the Sheriff in Crescent City, California and with the State Highway Patrol. He turned up (dead) in Arcata, California where he'd gone to get checked for a uti. Somehow, probably due to some minor surgery, sepsis got loose, and it was soon over.
Details here...
https://albertsturkey.blogspot.com/2025/08/al-christensen-died.html?m=1
Rereading this post,
https://rollingsteeltent.blogspot.com/2025/07/what-view.html?m=0
i found my comment w the coordinates to the turnoff to the Elwha River area. Pursuing it further led to this Youtube video
about the dams being taken out after the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe's lobbying culminated in the Elwha River Ecosystem and Fisheries Restoration Act of 1992.
Signed by President George H.W. Bush (41st prez from '89 to '93, a.k.a. Bush the Elder, of all people!!), this federal law authorized the government to buy out the dams and dismantle them specifically to restore the native ecosystem and protect tribal treaty rights.
Al's last post on July 23rd, 2025, conveyed his laid-back style & showed him chillin' somewhere among the big trees.
https://rollingsteeltent.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-talk-to-trees-but-they-dont-listen-to.html?m=0
Gone, but not forgotten.
And, at least as far as rivers go, it appears reincarnation is a fact. ✨
...in them days. No one wanted to see his though.
There're 3 melons hiding amongst the foliage at the bottom of the photo.
A few weeks in the making, it arrived today. I'd requested it for a selection of tiny treasures i found in a big arroyo at the foot of the Sandias. How did a deposit of tiny shells get in that arroyo?
Riders on the Storm
Recently, Greg in Travels of a Rambling Van, told how they get every penny's worth out of their stuff. I had to tell how much worth i get from fewer pennies and lauded my $4.00 chair that needed $0.53 in repairs.
A kind woman in an Oregon thrift store saw it was broken and i saw it was easily fixable. A win-win.
Here it is on the back veranda. Look closely at the front starboard leg and you'll see the machine screw, washer & nylok nut.
Here also is a Pietro Costantini chair rescued some 35 years ago from a street in the student ghetto. Worth approximately $1,500.00, i recently paid $150.00 to have it refurbished.
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/john-gerrard-spirits
Tapping the URL above takes you to the exhibit.
Tap READ MORE to unfold the list of sandals. Tap it to initiate "exciting" the gaussian splats. Tap repeatedly to excite them further!
As the instructions say: press on the image. Tap repeatedly to change it. Move your finger to rotate the image.
For about 15 years Michelle sat in here painting cat and dog images on ceramic mugs, plates, bowls and treat jars that she made in molds and fired in a large kiln.
She stopped around 2015 when her mom, Susan Cook, died. Now that my day-trading is paying off, i'm interested in having a place to analyze my trades and chart patterns. Susan's desk, with the two lamps (see video) will work.
Michelle did a great job of clearing the areas around the windows so they can be replaced.
See description in video
Aunt Ree Ree was a fan dancer in the '30s. She traveled to Hawai'i and Mexico.
There was a large mimosa in her front yard and on summer evenings we'd sit on her porch and enjoy its scent.
When, in '91 i sold my house, i brought a mimosa w me. When Sofie (the cat), Antoinette (the tortoise) and I moved in w Michelle we soon planted it, a nub barely two inches above ground. After 35 years in the shade of three large trees: an elm and two cottonwoods, it's remained diminutive. But it blossoms profusely and adds its wonderful scent and reminder of days of yore.
It's happened, on occasion, that i've been the beneficiary of another's largesse. When Kristen was at Ghost Ranch last year and received the small version of the iphone 16 pro and it was too much trouble to get to the post office to return it, she re-ordered and gave me the little one.
At the time the cameras were the most advanced. My photos rarely make use of its capabilities, but they're now significantly better.
On the other hand, yuh can't go wrong w a subject this dramatic!
