California

  • Green Grass on the Other Side of Road Trips

      The solstice is still two days away, yet it seems summer has been in full swing for weeks in spite of skies so thick with the seasonal grey we’re accustomed to it’s been misty from time to time.  We… Continue reading

  • Wordless Wednesday Contrasts

    If you haven’t been reading my blog for any length of time, then you need to know that my idea of Wordless Wednesday is to write less than four or five pages in a single post and add photos. That… Continue reading

  • Politics & Paradise: What’s your vote?

    *If you want to make a comment, please click on the title of the post…sorry. Don’t know why the comment button at the bottom of the post isn’t functional. I’ll get around to figuring it out after I’m done complaining.*… Continue reading

  • San Diego Chargers WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    In spite of completely ROTTEN refs and Peyton Commercial King Manning, the Sunshine Boys have won. Without L.T. and without their first string quarterback. Clearly, the MoH and the RTR are not very happy…Bwahahahahahaha! Of course the carnage on the… Continue reading

  • Brain Malarkey Cooked for Us

    Screw the memes I have to do. (I really WILL do them. I promise. And my fingers are NOT crossed behind my back.) But the MoH and I had the perfect recipe for a Monday. We went to our local… Continue reading

  • Sunshine and Big Surf

    This morning when I popped out of bed… *wait, that was yesterday* This morning, after I listened to the guy who rants each morning on the radio station the alarm is set on, I got up a bit more slowly… Continue reading

  • Dear Whomever is in charge of Coastline spying…

    Nine days and counting on NaBloPoMo…Yay! It’s Friday. The downside is that the weekend is when I have a tendency to drop a posting day. But not this month! I’m on it, pecking away, and fighting with my date stamp… Continue reading

  • Dear Bakersfield Board of Education Members…

    NaBloPoMo: I’m on it with a little hop in my step and a “tally-ho” spirit, raring to go. Onward and upward, and all that sort of rot. To quote my sister when she was very young and we had suffered… Continue reading

  • Dear Neighbor Lady…

    Is this Day 5 of NaBloPoMo? Jeez. Are we having fun yet? It has served one purpose thus far. I’ve corrected my time/date stamp and so now it’s actually correct! Amazing. Too bad nothing else is. Well, except my letter… Continue reading

  • Dear Mr. Eisner:

    And Day Three of my temporary existence as a NaBloPoMo-Ho begins, albeit I did experience a delay in posting as my work to sanitize, clean, paint, and redecorate the RT’s bedroom and bathroom have taken a priority. I know. I’m… Continue reading