Riders on the Storm
Trying to trim nose hair, Mr. Nose took a hit. Michelle had tooken a liking to the horsehair growing in the front and learned it whar good fer whut ails yuh including staunching of blood flow. It worked! Instantly! Amazing!
My left eye is blind. I had a little LSD too.
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!
24.May
From: intoxicated by my illness by Antoine Broyard
Thursday, 21, May, 2026. William Kittredge
Tania (at the end of her amazon review of Becker's The Denial of Death)
the burden of fabricating one's own religion, as argued by Becker, leads to a hypervigilant state, facing the fear that no beyond can prevent creatives from exhausting every bit of themselves in the artistic process.
Carl Jung is credited with coining the term "serendipity." The scientists and card-counters'll tell you about odds, but I’ve seen too many “coincidences” to believe in happenstance. |
Back in 2020 when hoarding toilet paper was de rigueur, I bought a bidet. It didn’t come with a dryer so I had to get used to a slight dampness “back there.” But it was no biggee.
Now, after these five-plus years and having gained even more weight (actually, my arms shrank but that’s not politically correct), it’s gotten hard for me to reach my bum.
Back when I was camping I simply poured water over my backside in the manner of other peoples throughout the world. As it turned out, there was, serendipitously, a second, hand-held shower with a hose.
But the diverter wouldn’t turn. It was then our German-named Native-American housekeeper, Wilhelmina, came to the rescue.
She told how as a young girl the children had teased her about her name until she, crying, asked her mom for a different one. She told how her Grandfather took her aside and told how she was named for his mother’s mother, who was a very special woman. And from that, she knew how much she was appreciated.
Proud of my German heritage, I explained how the W (double-u) is pronounced as a V in German. Thus, we have Volksvagon and Verner Heisenburg and Vilhelmina. And Vilhelmina got Maintenance to come and turn the diverter. She said there were only two other rooms that have hoses: 116 and 121.
It's things like this, things not necessarily life-saving but that make a difference, that incline me to believe in serendipity…and maybe guardian angels.
I, my new wife and daughter, then 4 1/2, arrived from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in the summer of '76. Since then i'd driven west and back enough to recognize nearly every view and certainly every campsite of which there are only two or three.
Laguna Pueblo sits perched on a hill overlooking the Rio San Jose - which actually had some water in it. Once an idyllic setting, interstate 40 now lends its presence, a testament to technological superiority.
Nearing Laguna
In the '90s there was a food truck at Laguna that had the best mutton burritos, a delicacy i never chanced upon in either Chicago or San Francisco. Now Laguna touts their burger; it's a White man's food. I've yet to try it.
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We had a number of delays so missed our dinner reservation. Fortunately, I packed some leftover chicken, cheese and lettuce. We didn't starve.
Lower Level Coach
When we got there though, the sidewalk was being redone and was really rough. Fortunately, Ron, standing in the dark ahead of us, had a flashlight and came back to rescue us.
Last summer i planted some cantaloupe. It was so phenomenally better than the stores' i ordered some melon & corn seeds from the seed bank in Arizona.
This is a blue collar neighborhood. After a day of work, single women have no interest in landscaping. Andrea's 16-year-old son is too busy. She was willing to let me have at it. I made the sticks out of paint stirrers from Michelle's collection. Artists collect everything.
In the apache plume
