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Thank you, Sandi. And I hope for you the same today.

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Aloha and Happy Earth Day from Hawai'i, Sandi! :)

Happy Lei (May Day in Hawaii) Day!

May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii

Thank you, Sandi, and a wonderful June to you too!! Great quote and sentiment also.

Hi Sandi! So glad to hear that you are getting some sun. Is Her Majesty "off Island"? lol

Happy End of June to you too, :-)

Hi Sandi! Well then, I don't feel so weird about thinking that big baby was kind of weird, LOL (just kidding.) Glad to hear your photo group outing went well! Looks like a nice day as you captured the nice summer white light of the day in your beautiful photo. Yes, lovely old steam boat pushing out into the river. I see the other interesting boats at dock in the background. Looks so serene...I wish I was there!

Thank you, Sandi. I hope you have a more arid August!

Thank you, Sandi!! (a belated thank you, that is!) Hope you are having salubrious October weather and Britannia is still above the sea!!

I should have said 'we' Sandi, as it sounds like you have had a miserable summer (will pop over to your blog next and see what up with you.)

Thank you, Sandi. Have a great Monday when you get there :)

Thank you, Sandi!! We are serving Pilgrim with a nice bottle of Chianti, er, I mean Turkey with a nice white wine (and a side of mad fish!)...hope you are getting out and enjoying your Rothko sunrises and sunsets and not too much rain, and have a nice weekend preparing for your 2011 Christmas!! :-)

Amazing...Karen, I am living in Hawaii two hours behind you there in California and waking up to yet another overcast day. Was checking the weather to see if we were finally going to see the sun today. It has been unusually overcast days on end it seems here. I checked the blogs after and saw I had popped to the top, lol. Thank you for the greeting and the wonderful JFK card and quote. I hope for you the same.

Yes, I can see how you could be confused. I decided to stop blogging about and posting photos from here after repeatedly experiencing negative events here. After becoming interested/concerned about the climate change issue, decided to devote my blog, primarily, to that.

I would love to move to Southern California (Palm Springs area, and where I had wanted to go in the first place,) but not so easy to just get up and move, especially from here to there and across the ocean. And my partner likes it here and doesn't want to try and move currently.

Maybe one day...great to hear from you! Thank you for stopping by, and maybe one day I will be back there in sunny California!!

Tony! Toni! Tone! - It Never Rains (In Southern California) (Music Video)




A Horse with No Name (HD) (Music Video)

Ventura Highway (America) (Music Video)

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed (Extended 12" Version) (Music Video)

Karen, yes, I do remember you telling me that your brother lives in Indian Wells. I usually only got down to about Palm Desert when I lived there in the Coachella Valley. I liked visiting the Living Desert gardens. Yes, the coast is way too foggy for me. I was ready to slit my wrists after a summer in San Francisco, lol. Reminds me of Mark Twain's "urban lore" quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

I saw today's headline and read about the second round of rain for Northern California. Amazing that there is a flood advisory for the Navarro river when it is currently 20' below flood level. I use to enjoy driving along there when I would go out to the Mendocino coast.



Have fun watching/photoing the big waves if they come your way!!

It will be interesting to see what and what doesn't happen at the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha.

Happy Christmas, Bug. Thank you! I hope you and your family have a wonderful day too. Not sure it will be warm where you are or it is what is expected or desired. I know Charleston doesn't usually expect a "White Christmas".

Yes, that was a wonderful warm day there at Hatteras. I don't know if those beautiful dunes and sea oats are even there anymore as I think they have had several big storm surge events along there since I was last there.

Yes, would prefer SoCal but SF would be ok. If I were 20 years younger and could stand the weather, Portland might be a fun place to be. Speaking of PC, do you ever watch the tv show Portlandia? I enjoy it.

Mark Twain and Oscar Wilde both had some funny quotes and observations. I guess you could say they were "contemporaries" and creatures of the 19th century. Their wit, however, has stood the test of time, hasn't it?

Bug, I always think of Wilde's quotes more than what he wrote. He had some good ones. As did Mark Twain.

Oscar Wilde Quotes

Oscar Wilde Wikipedia


(I remember, Bug, that our acquired tastes for quirky TV comedy shows has crossed paths in the past, such as the "The Red Green Show". This is the link for Portlandia. Not sure if you will like it...maybe more of a "West Coast" thang.


Portland Dream of the 90's (music video)

Welcome, shoreacres. Yes, I was sad to hear the news. I think they were the last of the 'Mohicans' in SF quirky. At least, quirky with class. Do you also remember the Fisherman's Wharf "The Human Jukebox"? And yes, Herb Caen, "Mr. San Francisco (Baghdad-by-the-Bay)" was a great SF writer and 'institution'. His columns were required reading in The City back in the day.

BTW, I stopped by on your blog early this morning and read about the Uranium story in Virginia. I had no idea that was there either. Being a former Washingtonian (DC) as well I found that very interesting and somewhat alarming as I also have family downstream from it. Will have to make it a habit to visit your blog. You are a very good journalist. Sorry not to leave a comment there...it was very early and I was multi-tasking and trying to wake up.

Good morning Bug,

About a cup of Joe down, takes about two to really wake me up. Doing my morning ritual of taking in information. I prefer the internet rather than having it blasted out at me by the tv. Democracy Now! isn't on on Sunday anyway and I don't need to see the latest news according to Corporate America, necessarily. I think I am turning into my late father, frightening thought. Although, he would be watching Rush Limbaugh, even more frightening thought, lol. RIP Dad, Love you. I feel his presence often. We bought a convertible this past summer and sometimes I sense him sitting there next to me in the passenger seat for a few minutes while driving. He loved warm weather (Florida) and convertibles :-). This is getting a little Jack Kerouac now, lol.

We have a chance for some rain in the next 24 hours possibly. Very dry where I am on the desert side of Paradise. Would be nice to get some here. Looks like the north west islands of Kauai and Oahu have a flash flood watch.

How are things were you are? Saw a big swirl that didn't look good on my screensaver map heading towards Sandi and again looking at the Doc's blog. Looks rather nasty and ominous. Was going to go over and look at Sandi's maps and weather links or see if she commented on it. Looks like it is closer to Iceland now. Reminds me of when you fly over to Europe and they have the route map with the plane icon as it travels up from the coast of Newfoundland to Iceland and on to the British Isles. Looks like it is dinner time in London. It's breakfast time here. G just announced that eggs (egg whites for me) are ready but I will have to eat them later because I am juicing this morning. Better to do it on an empty stomach.

LOL, yes, I am having more and more of those moments and it is very disturbing. Yes, I think we may be about the same age and I remember how we dressed and how it horrified our parents. I remember friends of my father offering me cash money if I would cut my hair, lol. I had sort of a "Jewfro". (Oh, would I love to have that much hair again! lol) And we would wear the same ratty old jeans for days on end. We would always wear nicely ironed dress shirts with the tails out, tho'...go figure. I think the kids now-a-days dress rather fashionably. There seems to be an emphasis on looking very good albeit a little crazy looking sometimes. I usually just wear worn t-shirts and blue jean shorts mostly these days. Hardly a slave to fashion anymore.

Afternoon, Karen! Still technically morning here, two hours behind you. Yes, as you know probably, there isn't even room to bury the dead in San Francisco (they send everyone down the peninsula to Colma, the city of the dead.) So makes sense that the waste stream needs to be eliminated as much as possible. Yes, it does take time but once you get into the habit it is sort of 'on auto-pilot' and doesn't really take that much time. It is amazing what you can compost. Since I do a lot of juicing I use the pulp in our compost to help make soil along with the paper products and yard clippings. We are on an old lava flow and the soil comes in handy to fill the puka's (holes) I dig into the rock to plant.

Yes, especially there in California, everyone is often in a mad manic rush. Not so much here, a slower more sane pace. While I am being haunted by my father this morning, I remember what a fuss he would make for having to throw an aluminum can into the recycle bin! He must be turning over in his grave, if he had one, of having to compost, lol.

That is very good, excellent, Karen. Yes, we recycle as much as possible. I think we give it a very good effort too. Also, recycle old electronics and metals/appliances. I watched the Vietnamese hack apart old electronics on the streets of Saigon when I was there, trying to find the precious metals to reuse. The scrap metal and paper also goes there to be reused. Putting all of this otherwise into landfills is getting very costly and is environmentally dangerous.

Hi Sandi! You probably got tired of scrolling through the new dead sea scroll here, lol...Is there any record of the longest blog entry on WU? I think that you thought some of yours were approaching War and Peace :)

I even recycle old photos! :-)

Seriously, 20% is a reasonable rate that most places should be able to achieve. Zero is exceptional!!

Good evening Sandi, Yes, that is a very new photo taken by Feather along the beautiful Mendocino County, California coast. And yes, it is beautiful :)

I love how she gets those perspectives. As I mentioned, Feather has a wonderful 'signature style' with her photography. I watched her get those amazing shots when I use to walk around with her occasionally out there on that gorgeous coast back when I lived a couple hours inland from there. I miss hiking out there with her. It was fun. My mother and I even had a 'Blair Witch' experience with Feather one time hiking around Glass Beach. My mother and I still laugh about it sometimes when we recall it.

Hope all is going well with your Jury Duty. Will pop over to your blog and see what up. Not much new to report from over here. G got a nice photo of one the Java Sparrows at our feeder. Maybe I will post it for him. I am still trying to get a shot of one the 'Apapane 'Apapane photos and song on YouTube I think they are too elusive for the iPhone camera. Probably will have to dust off the better camera for a serious effort at it.

PS...Whilst scrolling through the blogs I have to give the best blog entry title award of the day to plapman, "Just posting to complain", LOL...omg, 0F! there on the Canadian Plains right now.

Bug, I think I am developing blog ESP...I was popping back over here, mainly to check cloud cover, and I also checked here too for some reason. I think you are a first class troublemaker! lol, and that is a good thing. Just kidding about being a troublemaker, unless you consider that a compliment (I would.) Thanks for the link to the Medical University you work at. Interesting to look at that.

Yes, that is very good when a big institution has a strong recycling program as well. Sounds like some of your co-workers need to be sent to the re-education camps.

Big universities/companies, etc in communities that don't mandate recycling probably help keep a lot of recyclable material out of the landfills. I am sort of surprised that it isn't mandated in places like where you and Karen live. Maybe that is not uncommon. I have always lived for the most part where it is at least expected of you to recycle. San Francisco is tough. I remember getting notes in the recycle can or vice versa in the green waste or trash can if something accidentally or absentmindedly ended up in the wrong container. It was sort of unnerving like finding a note in your baggage from the TSA.

I was trying to analyze what our personal percentage of recycling/composting versus what goes into the landfill myself recently. I think we may be at about 25%. We have had problems composting the paper towels and paper plates. We use a lot of them as we are in a water scarce place. We have to be careful with water too. I have been trying to get G to switch over to xeriscaping.

I read that Karen doesn't use a lot of paper towels and uses reusable towels. But I wonder how much energy is used to clean them? I guess if you are using solar or wind energy then probably not contributing to more fossil fuel being burned up to operate your washing machine. But even so, producing the paper products may be very polluting. I remember when we would approach the paper mills in the far north of California how awful the air quality and smell was.