Archive for February, 2008
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Friday, February 29th, 2008Three Beautiful Things:
Yoga to stretch out the kinks.
Intense Vitamin D
The first “chink” of the baseball bat
Oh yes friends, I heard it! According to the sounds in the ‘hood high-school baseball practice has started. The first hit is the sweetest. Next, we wait for The National Anthem.
Yesterday, at the undercover assignment, I ran into a […]
Someone Left the Cake Out In the Rain
Monday, February 25th, 20082008 is the year of technological upgrades in the Garden. We’re slow to change and trend towards “if it ain’t broke…..”.
The Art Director insisted that we upgrade the (don’t laugh) Sony 1.3 mega pixel camera, so based on Granny’s Consumer Report we went with the slim Sony Cybershot 7.2 mega pixel digital camera.
LOVE IT!
So […]
Goodbye Nelda Pt. 2
Monday, February 25th, 2008Funeral Report from PA:
The flowers were beautiful and the service was very nice..Nelda had asked the minister to do the service when Pauline’s mother died , she had picked the Legion and the caterer so most of it was done….there were 75 or more there and they stayed for the lunch and […]
SCI-FI CSI LA
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008The student at Embalmed to the Max introduced us to Thomas Noguchi, former LA Medical Investigator, L.A. Chief Coroner, and the inspiration for the show “Quincy”. We dug a little deeper and found an interview done in 1986 and found these futuristic thoughts.
On “Psychological Autopsies”:
I hope to see the day when we […]
Burning Desire
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Earlier, while in the way-back machine, I noticed that this time last year I was also ready to burn. Funny, but I’ve got that same urge today. And here’s the object of my desire:
The last one we had was….destroyed by fire. And so were my eyebrows. Anyway, the local hardware store has this in […]
Gritty Livin’
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008This time last year we were in sunny Florida. Most of my pix were of living green vegetation. It was ALIVE!
This is a morning pool shot. Marveling that: I. Was In. The Pool. On a February morning. Soak It Up!
Now, back to the moment.
Pass The Salt, Please
Friday, February 22nd, 2008The view out the window at World Headquarters. This is the street that sold me when I bought the shack.
Beautiful sunsets, a lilac bush, bird bath. It’s a good view for not much money.
But with the beauty, comes a price. At certain times of the day this thoroughfare is heavily traveled with teenagers on their […]
Executive Function
Friday, February 15th, 2008Here’s what we learned in the Garden this week:
The Executive Function of my frontal lobe appears to be diminishing. Last to develop, first to fade. God Help Me.
The frontal lobe of your brain houses your Memory Chamber and the Executive Function and controls your recall. Names, planning, managing distractions, and Multi-Tasking. Herein lies […]
Good Riddance
Thursday, February 14th, 2008“The world is a better place without this man in it.”
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Imad Mughniyeh was killed Tuesday in car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus, is accused of masterminding the 1983 bombings if the U.S. Embassy and Marine barracks in Beirut, the 1985 hijackings of a TWA airliner and two Kuwaiti jets, […]
Turn Up The Heat
Monday, February 11th, 2008courtesy of brandspankin.com
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