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LJ acting weird - and changes
Evidently LJ thinks that I no longer have a friends feed - at least on my iPhone. And Chrome on my Mac ( Read more... ) -
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I like Japanese Woodblock prints. I'm on some estate sale mailing lists, and we've been going to their for-the-mailing-list-only days when the email says they have prints. This sale had lots of prints, but one Japanese Woodblock prints., I wasn't really sure that it was a woodblock print instead of just a lithograph or something the colors defied ( Read more... ) -
It a (small)*3 world
I went to a party at a high school friend's house this weekend. We only see each other maybe once a year (usually the Hardly-Strictly Bluegrass festival), haven't kept in touch much, and I didn't really expect to know any else there - maybe some other high school friends ( Read more... ) -
Allosaurs and Petroglyphs and Nuptials, oh my!
It's been a busy beginning of August.
We attended a long anticipated family wedding in Park City, UT. Most of my cousins were there, from both east and west coast. Perry (father of the bride) fronted the wedding reception band (his brother Marc sat in on one number), and everybody danced under the stars - including 85 year old grandmother of the ( Read more... ) -
Freebie week
This seems to be the week of freebies. We walked or drove past 3 yard sales that were giving stuff away that we actually need (yea, you're right to read that with a note of skepticism) - and the secret neighborhood plum orchard has ripened, so we picked two bags of plums. Yum!
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Two cool product-things
I've seen two articles in two days about similar, but opposite products that seem to have a lot of potential ( Read more... ) -
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Spent the weekend moving everything off the carpets so we could get our carpet thoroughly cleaned for the first time since, um, a long time ( Read more... ) -
The most gorgeous landscape I know
I'm sure I've said this about lots of National Parks I've viisted, but I keep coming back to this spot on the south fork of the Lyall river in Tuolumne meadows as the most gorgeous spot that I've ever seen:
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NYC - the important bit
While "New York, the city that never sleeps" is a good motto (and true),
"New York, City of Scaffolding" might be a bit more accurate.
We had a lovely time, saw herds (what's the collective noun for collective nouns?) of:
relatives, friends, museums, restaurants, subway stops, and botanical gardens.
And chocolate.
This a photo of "The Meadow", the shop ( Read more... ) -
NYC
The DVDs I made of family photos were a really big hit with my cousins and their kids, e.g. "Wow, grandpa looks just like his father, and dad looks just like grandad when he was 15!".
We're staying with friend Zain in the West Village. I had no idea how trendy and lively it was: restaurants on every corner, and a few usually in between, still ( Read more... )