Change Of Plans

My daughter’s going to be spending the weekend with Susan and me. I just got off the phone with her mom who’s heading up to Fresno this weekend with Kate’s sister for a skating competition and Kate doesn’t want to go with (it’s Fresno, can ya blame the kid?), so she wanted to know if …

Well Hey There Little Feller!

Shortly after 8 a.m. this morning we found this inquisitive little mephitid doing what mephitids are known to do during the spring: seeking a reliable source of earthworms and insects. As Shadow whined from the kitchen floor and Jiggy moaned and scratched to be let out the back door (none of the other cats feigned …

And In This Corner…

It is but a brief span when the morning sun is such in the spring sky as to spill its stuff sharply through the north-facing window of the livingroom into one of my favorite nooks of this glorious house:

Loss Angeles: El Circo Loco & The LBC

I got confirmation today that one of my neighborhood’s fixtures, a colorful character who could regularly be found parading up and down Sunset Boulevard known as “El Circo Loco,” passed away last Friday evening. I first heard about it Saturday night when word circulated that he had been found dead on the street, but no …

The View From Here

I previously tried to paint a word picture of the view from the brick patio I built last week. Here’s some actual pixels taken during a stogie break this afternoon: [click here to see the bigger version]

Active Weekend

It’s rare that I don’t post at least once a day, and even rarer that I don’t feel the pang to do so, but yesterday, by the time Susan and I got home from spending eight hours in the Angeles National Forest above Altadena (not to mention scarfing some serious El Pollo Chicken as a …