Wednesday September 15th The mornings are getting colder in spite of end of afternoon temperatures still reaching ninety. Each night before we sleep, I open all the large windows in the house and, for the first time in months, the house is cool in the mornings. Closing all the windows while the house is cold […]
Sunday August 8th Finally today, the man with a new pool heater on his truck, promises to come and install it. One of the pleasures of the summer here in the heat of the mountains is to swim each day and to be able to toss oneself in the pool whenever it just gets too
Thursday July 29th Piles of ironing sit on the ironing board in the garage turned boot room. I save it for days until I can listen to a podcast or join an online seminar about some interesting topic, but this morning the pile seems a lot larger than usual. One could ask why I still
Wednesday July 7th Our road was slurry coated yesterday, organized by our next-door neighbor and paid for by the residents. This is a maintenance measure to keep the road in good repair. We are outside the jurisdiction of the County and are responsible for all of its care. The infrastructure project, as John calls it,
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Los Angeles, California, 1986 It makes me grin as I think about those elegant if sometimes rowdy dinners in Sydney and how much more relaxed and perhaps quiet are the dinners we give in our condo apartment in Venice, California. After I returned from Australia it was hard to find a job in Hollywood again.
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