First you might wonder why I really biked all the way to Montebello and back (28.29 miles) to buy egg nog? Well, this is not just any egg nog. This is Broguiere’s Egg Nog. THE BEST egg nog I’ve ever had. And sure, I could’ve biked (probably about the same distance overall) to stores in …
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A Thursday Los Angeles Times article on the then-pending City Council vote to demolish the historic 6th Street Bridge over the Los Angeles River in favor of a replacement of more modern design, illicited a strong enough reaction to what seemed the councilmembers’ foregone conclusion that I wrote the Times a letter that morning. My …
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Sure, the rain started falling last night before I turned in, but it must’ve stopped before I fell asleep because this morning the ground was practically dry and there was juuust barely 1/8th of an inch captured in the trusty backyard precipitometer. But a few hours later the skies opened up and stayed open, and …
Three years ago — almost to the freakin’ day — I was surprised to unearth a spent bullet (pictured above, click it for the bigger picture) from our backyard that never ceases to amaze and mystify. Back then I dwelt a spell not only the projectile’s potential caliber, but also the probable circumstances and potentially …
I turned from my desk this morning and found this poised pair, as if at a formal portrait sitting, so I grabbed my camera and obliged. And since there was that lovely light in which they stayed put after the snap, I put the cam on a tripod and got 1:37 of video of them …
Susan and I took Ranger for an afternoon out-and-back along the east bank of the Los Angeles River downstream from the Fletcher Drive Bridge, and Ranger unintentionally ended up getting very upclose and personal with the water as shown in the still above (click it for the bigger picture) and the video clip below: I’m …
With various meteorologists predicting half-inch rainfall totals from this storm, I figured that would mean I would find a waterline around the one-inch mark in my backyard precipitometer this morning. But it seems this overnight system proved to be an under-achiever. Still, 0.50 inches ain’t nothing to dismiss, and with it that brings our season’s …