Choice

The choice of which vaccum cleaner to get to replace the beat-up one is making me insane.

 

 

Road Trip

Just back from a 2-week road trip. One in the car, back roads across the Plains, the other in Indiana. Petroleum unfriendly, I know I know. Fed bees. Fed hummers. Fed folks. Surrounded by tomatoes, and even more greeting me know.  Pictures later.

 

 

The water's fine

...New tank, old sunflowers.  Now, today, if only the fog were to burn off.

 

 

Galvanized trough

Now we have a pool or a planter: a "seconds" galvanized trough from Santa Rosa.     

Graffito of they day

On the back of a small sign on the freeway exit ramp: PLEASE STOP POURING SALT ON ME. It’s a friendly enough request, don't you think?

The Fourth

Be safe, out there. . . .

Curiosa

 Quite the collector:   Curiosa. I found a copy at a favorite bookstore, Copperfield's. Along with the new books they always have an odd collection of remainders that I find irrestible, every time I go to Calistoga. T&R and I went in search of wine and galvanized tanks, but not a soak. SCORE.  

 

Houses for Weight Loss

Perhaps the back 40 could use this—I certainly could.

 

 

MX-80 in Pandora's Box

So I visit pandora.com to see what kind of "MX-80" like music they would like to decode for me as attributes, genomically speaking. Here's what I get: electric rock instrumentation . punk influences . a subtle use of vocal harmony . extensive vamping . minor key tonality . a vocal-centric aesthetic . electric rhythm guitars. Heatmiser, Cop and Speeder, Disappearing Ink: http://www.pandora.com/music/song/heatmiser/disappearing+ink

I also get the Norwegian sextet, Kaizers Orchestra http://www.pandora.com/music/album/kaizers+orchestra/evig+pint

who resides "in the gray area between Scandinavian death metal, traditional folk, and Tom Waits-inspired Tin Pan Alley pop. Their second full-length, Evig Pint, is the soundtrack to a nightmarish carousel that refuses to let off its 12 terrified children. Those 12 tracks are fueled by a sinister pump organ, alley-can drums, and a brutal horn section that sound like a klezmer group on the banks of the river Styx."

All I can say, is, Yikes.

We're goin' to a weddin' soon

We're going to a wedding soon in Monterey, staying by the bay (so deep!). But what to get them youngins"? I don't know the happy couple, personally, but I will soon. Their registry has so many choices. SPOILER ALERT: I'm going for the $150 toothbrush, I think. They'll appreciate it when they hit the 40-year mark and still have sparkling teeth. Or a set of grapefruit spoons. Citrus is always in fashion. Hope politics in Thailand clear up right away.