Acceptance
This just in from my inbox: FROM: Rio Hondo College TO: William Campbell SUBJECT: Rio Hondo College Police Academy CONGRATULATIONS! You are invited to join the upcoming Rio Hondo College Police Academy class.
This just in from my inbox: FROM: Rio Hondo College TO: William Campbell SUBJECT: Rio Hondo College Police Academy CONGRATULATIONS! You are invited to join the upcoming Rio Hondo College Police Academy class.
I had a moment where I was going to give up. At the Rio Hondo College Police Academy this morning, for the required physical agility test in hopes of being accepted as a cadet, I almost quit before I got started. In my group of applicants, in which I was the oldest by seven years …
It’s a given I’m a nut, right? I mean, I don’t have to kualify my krazee, do I? I preface with that rhetorical because today while people all around me are moaning the organizer-driven and city-ordered demise of what was to have been this weekend’s Sunset Junction Festival, I did something I’ve long wanted to …
It was a clearer day than has been in the last week or two, so I aimed my backyard 60x spotting scope at the summit of Mt. Hollywood (1640′ elevation; about 3.5 miles away from me as the bee lines) in the late afternoon and captured the sundown activity at the summit of Mt Hollywood …
Of ALL the times for my usually dependable GoPro cam to quietly crap out, it would have to be on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (or at least once a year if this www.paddlethelariver.org program is deemed successful) to kayak a roughly two-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River between Balboa Boulevard and the Sepulveda Dam. So …
The best gift I ever got Susan was an electric tiller that she wanted one Christmas several years ago. She’s not used it once, but I’ve used it on several occasions to reinvigorate various stale patches of earth in the back and side yards. Today was the latest example, with about 20 square feet of …
Finally. It took a couple days for my first (and so far only) Great Sunflower Project bloom to get the attention of the local bees, but today they finally came a calling and made up for lost time while I had my camera set up beside it. You’ll have to forgive me for remaining so …