How I spent my summer vacation, part 2

My brother Robert came down from Northern California, for a track meet at Cal State San Marcos. He fit right into our household, and took over most of the web surfing duties while he was here.

Here he poses in his track uniform, in our living room, and at the field, with some of his teammates:



Here's a bit of levitation. I saw a lot of this; they were all doing it!


The next day, we went on a VIP tour of the Wild Animal Park, for Aaron's birthday. This was WAY COOL, the absolute best and fun time.

Here are some of us visiting with a Frogmouth, which is not an owl. Aaron knew what this was, and our guide was *extremely* impressed.



Do not look at Lazr Kitteh with remaining eye:


These are California Mule Deer, which moved themselves in with the Rhinos. They are squatters:

Oh yeah and I dyed my hair burgundy.

She's no fun, she fell right over

I was moving some dirt around in the back, so that I would not fall over when hanging some laundry. So my back spasmed. It was weird, it didn't actually hurt but it was a definite spasm.

I hit the dirt... well actually I gently sat down in the dirt. The dirt was hot and soft and nice, and I tried to calm down the muscle. I eventually hung up the laundry and went about my day.

But now... I gotta say... ouch. It's quite sore.

I guess now I don't have to worry about moving any dirt around for a while. Drive or bus, that will be my hardest question for a few days.

Ouch.

How I spent my summer vacation, part 1

People were yelling FREEBIRD.......

No wait I mean, yesterday we went to a museum.
A few weeks ago we went to a similar museum.

A week or so ago we had visitors.

Somewhere in between we had other visitors but
somehow all we took pictures of was socks.

More and funnier later.

Welcome to Summer

And just to prove it, after today I'm not coming back to work for 5 days.

Over the weekend we're going to this:
http://www.ctmsfolkmusic.org/festival/Solstice/default.asp
where Jim will get his third lesson from his East Coast Hammered Dulcimer teacher. I'm bringing my acoustic electric bass in case they have a workshop for me or something. Probably it will just get a nice car ride and I'll get some tunes.

On Monday, we're picking up my mom, bringing her back, and ditching her while we go to House of Blues to see Hot Tuna. She says she wants to hang out alone since her house is too crowded. I'm not sure she Really understands we don't have TV. I don't think she'll be willing to run the computer to watch DVDs or Daily Show episodes on the net but we will see.

Tuesday I'm staying home and hopefully some folks will bring some babies over and distract my mom.

I think we're ditching her on Wednesday night for a Humphrey's show, as well.

She'll be staying until she gets bored and gets on the train home. If anyone else wants to come by and distract her, please let me know. I'll be in the back yard digging to China.

By the light of day

everything looks just as messy, only brighter.

new photos here

I Has a Shovel

This is progress?


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Badger Badger Badger!


Meanwhile, in the Front Yard, I started re-excavating the sprinkler system so Jim can fix it. This is where the pine tree roots grew around the pipe and snapped it:

This break is what started this project.


Jim planted a little garden in the front yard. Awwwwwwww:



This is the view of it from the sidewalk. This is after I cleaned up the yard a bit, and added the little rock border:


I dug this section out, with some help from Cousin Steven, yesterday and today:

I used my NEW SHOVEL that Jim got me. He's so nice. It fits me and does not give me splinters.

I HAS A SHOVEL okthxbye

Me, too

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/06/14/this-is-mah-job/