It was a day of surprise rain, and it was capped off with a surprise rainbow.
Full bow!
Category: irl
There’s nothing like a Southern California winter…
Actually, there is. It’s called “summer.”
January 2026 Starts with what’s left behind…
I went to an estate sale in a nearby neighborhood.
There are two ways to look at them. It’s either sad to see a house once happily occupied empty and disheveled, and a deceased person’s things greedily pawed through, or it’s comforting to see a home that was obviously well-loved for a long time, and the things they once used ready to be useful or cherished by another.
I choose the second option.
Another quality rose from that bush in the corner…
Nothing like being freed from the clutches of the marauding honeysuckle next to it to make it happy. The catch: only one rose at a time.
A celebratory margarita…
…to celebrate 6 months of surviving Josie!
Volunteering at the county GOP…
A lost cause in California? Maybe, but hope springs eternal!
July begins with an eagle…
Jo proved to be completely unconcerned with the fireworks. This means I actually enjoyed the 4th for the first time in 13 years!
So judgemental…
…it looked straight through my soul.
At the Elks Club…
They’re not kidding. They’ve got elk! More than one!
Someone got flooded out of their hide-out…
One of the backyard alligator lizards. They’re creepy enough when they’re not scaling the screen door like some nightmarish hellspawn.
For those who don’t creep out easily…
**Shudder.**