Last week, the below letter to the editor appeared in our local Carpinteria paper, The Coastal View News :
My reply was printed in this week’s edition. I have reproduced it below :
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Such a Smile
Here is a picture of my beautiful girl.
Ginger is Channelling Petey
Last night, I went downstairs to let Ginger into the house. She was in the front yard. As I walked to the front door I heard some strange noises from outside. It sounded like something was banging against the house, I thought the wind was blowing.
When I opened the door, I saw that she was carrying something in her mouth. I saw a tail and figured it was a lizard. I went back inside to get a flashlight to look closer.
Ginger had caught a *big* rat. Toby picked it up and threw it away. She said that it was about 8 inches long, not including the tail. Yuck. But better a dead rat than one that might end up running across the kitchen counter one day.
Sorry no pictures.
Throwing a house away, one dumpster at a time
We are finishing up demolition of the downstairs. Last weekend, we pulled off the last of the old drywall. It is a messy business. We wear masks and safety glasses and still have black boogers at the end of the day. We have rigged up a ramp to get the stuff into the dumpster as directly as possible.
The more eagle-eyed reader will notice that although I am raising up the wheelbarrow, nothing is coming out. Yes, the above is a staged photograph. The picture below shows what really happened when I had Pop taking a picture of me dumping the wheelbarrow.
One of the planks that I was using as a ramp fell out from under me as I got the wheelbarrow up to dump. Poppa was ready and waiting and snapped the shot as I hit the ground. Click on the picture to view the full sized picture to get all the ugly details. It was the first time that the ramp had failed, and Poppa got the shot. Also, the batteries in the camera died right after that picture. Strange.
A First For Max
Over the years, we have posted various bits about Max’s artistic talents. Well, now those talents are being put to good use. Last night Max made the first sale (outside of the family) of a piece of his artwork. He produced a skull and crossbones in exchange for a Tic Tac container with 5 tic tacs left in it.
He is well on his way.