Sunday morning thoughts

One of our liquidambar trees has gotten into a holiday mood, cheery  against the oaks and redwoods around it. I need to find heavy-duty holiday lights for our redwood trees… the 40 year-old lights that have been a neighborhood tradition were in bad shape and came down when the trees were trimmed a couple months [...]

Having given thanks

We had a lovely family Thanksgiving yesterday. John, Julie and Grace joined us for our ‘tiny turkey,’ a 10-lb. Diestel petite, with yam and carrot puree, rosemary-roasted red potatoes, Linda’s famous stuffing and cranberry sauce, paired with  Clos d’Oratoire Chateauneuf du Pape. Num.
Grace, as usual was the center of attention. Barely one, she’s starting to [...]

A rainy day at World HQ

It’s been a dark and rainy morning and so far we’ve been to the market, the gym and the hardware store. It started to pour rain as I made my way back from the hardware store, so I ducked into a Starbucks for shelter and a latte that made me remember why I don’t like [...]

OMG, the upgrade worked!

November Sky

At least I think it worked… Everything  apears to be functioning. I threw the photo in, above, just to check out the upload stuff.. and note that I get a caption space… interesting. The spellchecker doesn’t seem to be working, but otherwise we appear to be good to go…

Upgrading

We have been considering upgrading our Wordpress server software from its current vintage to the latest stable release (2.6.3). There are lots of good reasons for doing this, mostly visible from the author’s side, but, of course, we have that dread feeling that precedes any software ‘upgrade.’
The Wordpress user forums seem to be OK with [...]

Too many links

We finally caved in and responded to the dozens of messages in our inbox inviting us to join Plaxo Pulse (the last invitation - from the rector of our old church - somehow put me over the top). It was reminiscent of all the invitations we once received to join LinkedIn. Plaxo used to be [...]

Finally, a blog post

So, we’ve been remiss in keeping up the blog, and Linda is getting email asking if I’m ok. I’m going with the family room remodel as my ‘official’ excuse - though Linda managed not to miss a blog beat while everything was in boxes. The family room is now 95% restored, and came out very [...]

Life in boxes

So this is our living room, as it’s been since Monday a week ago, when movers emptied the family room so we could refinish the floor and paint. Life in the interim has been chaotic. We tried to put important and useful things in the boxes that were easy to access, but somehow we managed [...]

Morning on the coast

The floor refinishing process has left the house a bit toxic, so we used the excuse to spend the night in Half Moon Bay, which meant a jog for Linda, and a walk for me along the coastal path this morning. The morning sky gave way to rain as we made our way to Pescadero [...]

Long shadows

Scott Loftesness, Tiger Lily, the Rev. David Perry and I cast long shadows as we headed out on this morning’s not-quite-1.5-mile walk. Tiger Lily is so busy, it’s probably a 3-mile walk for her…

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