How totally bizarre – what must Weather Pixie be thinking? Thunder, lightning, a bikini, and an umbrella with a metal frame – there’s a recipe for camera-ready disaster. At least the little kitty isn’t there, too. At least he has enough sense to come in out of the rain. And yes, I know it’s not a bikini, but who cares about “One-Piece Weather Girl” or “Maillot Weather Girl?” It seems to be raining now (hard to tell where I sit) and so yay for all the plants and lawns and flowers, I say. Not so yay for anyone that has…
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Just a note to myself: the sermon at Holy Moly yesterday was on the parable of the mustard seed. I was reminded that my mom has an old silver necklace with a mustard seed in it… it looks a lot like this one. Hers is nicer and probably authentically Victorian, though. I’ll be working on a blog post for Holy Moly on this theme and wanted to grab the image. I’m gathering links volunteer situations for people from Holy Moly to consider working with. We’re going to be coming up with some kind of master plan and I’m supposed to…
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Last week we were horrified to discover that the church’s pipe organ had been vandalized – specifically, the ‘wind chest’ where all the small tin pipes reside. This week, we discovered the perpetrator! Yes, the photo tells it all. No, it’s not the contractor whose name appears on the fragment of yellow yardstick. The case is closed, because the perp turns out to be a nefariously furry squirrel. How do we know this? Because earlier this week, someone that went in to pick up a few things, and while in they: Found this mess of crap and twigs in the…
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Concert flyer Things are starting to ramp up for getting the word out for the concert next month (August 28, Holy Moly, 4 pm). The first flyers went up today, and I sold the first ticket. More to do today and tomorrow. This one went up at Caribou Coffee, I’ll return there later with small flyers in a little hanging pocket. I dropped one off at Panera Bread, too. Synergy Brass Quintet Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57.
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I was dropping off flyers and picking up some iced chai at Caribou Coffee before choir practice this morning when I encountered this antlered water-sports enthusiast. I wants one. I wants one real bad. I have no idea why, I just want a Snorkelbou. The accessories are piable plastic or vinyl. The life preserver around his waist is lightly inflated. His fur is soft and in spite of all the accoutrements, he’s way cuddly. It is teh way stupid cute thing ever. Snorkelbou! Originally uploaded by GinnyRED57.
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‘Apologies are not enough’ Originally uploaded by julespics. This just went up on the Flickr “London bomb blast” pool. Sad, but true (and disturbingly funny).
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I’ve added a new photo gallery, Olympiad. It covers the part of our big late May trip from when we left Seattle on the ferry, so we could have lunch in Winslow with my friend Christine before driving up and around the corner to Port Angeles. It’s also got some of the first full day we drove around the edges of Olympic National Park, and some coastal stuff. There are a lot more photos to add in the next albums, which will cover a day trip to Victoria, some hiking near Hurricane Ridge, and a bit of the Hoh Rain…
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Blues star Long John Baldry dies Damn. One of the few legends of rock and roll I’ve actually seen perform live, and he’s gone and left us. “Long” John Baldry enjoyed some popularity in the U.S. because one particular song got airplay in the late 70’s and early 80’s on college and album-oriented rock FM stations. I first heard him on the Eugene AOR station, KZEL. Yeah, in the mid 70’s and early 80’s, so sue me, I’m caught in fit of boomerstalgia. Anyway, in those days, ‘ZEL was a wild-eyed ex-hippie of…
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BBC NEWS | Middle East | Several killed in Egyptian blasts Shit, here we go again… apparently the entire world is heading into “flap mode.” This has just happened, so there’s very little information as yet. The Sharm el Sheikh/Naama Bay is a popular resort destination. One local described the blast in the Old Market area, saying “I saw the fire in the sky.” I wonder if this has anything to do with the anti-terrorism fatwa issued by British Islamic leaders? Probably not.
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Here’s a drug bust story with a twist: sekrit tunnel built between Canada and the US, pretty much under surveillance by US and Canadian authorities almost from the beginning of construction, with sekrit cameras and microphones placed during a “sneak and peek” inside the US endpoint, an abandoned house. Hundreds of pounds of “B.C. Bud” seized when the smugglers were pretty much under the eye of authorities the whole time other than when they were underground. Look for this to show up on an episode of “The Wire” soon, except with no dipshit locals in flannel shirts. All of the…