It’s orb weaver season. And while our front, back and side yards have become home to a bunch of average-sized specimens of the latest generation, I found the biggest of the bunch — easily with a two-inch leg span — and thankfully not strung across any walking path. Instead this magnificent, amazing creature’s web was …
On the hottest day Los Angeles has experienced in a looooong time, I ventured into the triple-digit heat yesterday afternoon with three errands to run: the Hollywood Bowl, to exchange tickets for that night’s performance since Susan is out of town helping out with matters in the wake of her uncle’s death last weekend; the …
Yesterday morning, after dropping Susan off at the airport so she could fly up to Montana to bury her uncle Jim who died Saturday only a few weeks after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, I then came back and got an outrageous estimate for damage done to the front bumper of our Ford (via an …
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Labor Day morning, Susan and I are enjoying breakfast on the front porch. As I sit contently before the towering stack of pancakes Susan constructed for me, a fellow heading south walks past the house with a backpack slung over his shoulder and an opened bottle of cheap wine in one hand. Ranger calls out …
Of our little six-pack of sunflowers grown and/or growing on the south side of the house, the western-most one bloomed the biggest and brightest (click it for the bigger picture):
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 …