If I had a dog…

I would TOTALLY be all over Paula Best’s Dog Collar sale!

Optimism is good for us.

Rob Brezsny featured a great Noam Chomsky quote in his horoscope email this morning.
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume there is no hope, you guarantee there will be no [...]

The South of France, Summer, 2010?

Well, I have some lovely news for us. I have booked another two weeks next summer at Gwen Gibson’s lovely retreat in the South of France, La Cascade. I can tell you, with all assurance, that this is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. The dates at La Cascade will be:  August 27- [...]

Good morning Tuesday

I’m going to try to ignore distractions, and spend the whole day productively. Good luck to me.

Today…

Well, today sucked, and it was also a beautiful day.  Both things were swirled together into a kind of Bundt cake of good and bad.
I finally heard from the IRS regarding my mother’s estate, and apparently what they think is a fair penalty to charge a missing person who was later found dead, and didn’t [...]

Wavy Plastic

Today I put the orange roof on the back arbor. It’s that old-school wavy plastic that lasts for 100 years, but now it comes in mod colours like burnt orange.
It looks great with the sun shining on it, and it’s a nice bit of shade at midday. Can you believe that this stuff is making [...]

A small, iridescent sorrow.

Our male Anna’s hummingbird died yesterday afternoon, after becoming ill or injured in the morning. I am broken-hearted; to put his glittering little body in the ground and cover it with dirt was to remember him diving and swooping in the yard every day. I buried him at the base of a just-planted carolina jessamine, [...]

Breakfast in the B40

Liam and Evan joined me for a beautiful breakfast in the newly pimped B40. We had pancakes, toasted banana bread that Evan and I baked last night, and sliced Fuji apples, Irish cheese, and andouille sausage. Orange juice and Peet’s coffee.

Liam’s hair is like pure spun copper in the sun, copper laced with every color [...]

Simplicity

It seems that simplicity is the goal; and not a bad one. I’m happy with it.  The studio house is for sale, so keep an ear out if anyone wants to buy the most excellent house possible in Tucson. It’s easy to rent half, and use half, it’s safe and private, and one of the [...]

Another beautiful day

I got all of the trees trimmed, and most of the weeds pulled. Doesn’t it look nice? 

I’ve been lugging these metal fence pieces around for about ten years now. How excellent to finally put them to use supporting the Lady Banks. She’s already wrapping herself around them. And I hung the porch swing, facing the [...]