California dreams, schemes, & memes

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Don’t you just love it when you wake up with that metallic baking soda/salt taste roiling around in your mouth after dreaming you were knee deep in crappy flood water asking your old boss… Continue reading

Cat nurses week-old abandoned puppy

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Originally posted on Wishing You Well:
Cat nurses a newborn pit bull. (Cleveland Animal Protective League/AP) A pit bull rejected by its mother is being taken care of by an unlikely surrogate: A mama…

Move over Guantanamo, you have competition.

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Move over Guantanamo, you have competition for the greatest implement of torture ever devised.  God’s interrogation light (shining brightly through the picture windows) is close to giving me a migraine.  The torture is… Continue reading

Hot and Dry with only 1 dog

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 Today’s forecast:  Hot and dry with only 1 dog.  And a cat that rarely comes out of my sister’s room.  Oh—and a sister that rarely comes out of my sister’s room. That’s because… Continue reading

Thoughts while walking my sister’s dog

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Is it possible to sunburn your eyelids when you’re wearing dark glasses?  Is that a cactus I just tripped over?  These are the things one thinks about as she’s falling forward over a… Continue reading

Team Work

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Originally posted on Dadgitated:
I really should be proud that they’ve started working together as opposed to fighting all the time. And I should be impressed with how clever the plan was. Because…

Sisters

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  It’s 100 degrees outside and the desert is much too bright for light sensitive eyes.  Where am I at this moment?  Huddled in a darkened room wearing a jacket, winter pants, socks… Continue reading

 My sister used to live in Houston, Texas. 

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  My sister used to live in Houston, Texas.  There were times I could find a round trip ticket for under $200 and I was always able to find a direct flight.  That… Continue reading

Thoughts while avoiding the mirror

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  What does the fecund human see when s/he looks in the mirror?   He sees a fit, handsome man regardless of the fat layers. He runs a comb or brush through his… Continue reading

The last stand of a long departed tent

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  It looks like anyone who has tickets to Disney World is going to have a bad day.  The first tropical storm of the season, Andrea, is presently pressure washing the rides.    It… Continue reading