The top picture is of me cooking dinner on the grill. I love that grill. I think that grill has been in use since my grandparents had the house. I love going out into the desert and finding dead mesquite branches to bring back and cut up for fuel for the grill. No Safeway 'mesquite briquets' for me - just the real thing collected in the desert. I even brought a wood saw down from Alaska to saw the branches. Last time we visited I discovered that none of the local stores carried normal wood saws.
Another favorite activity is watching the sunset from the front deck. This happened every day at about 4:30 - and it is amazing how fast the sun sets this far south. In Alaska sunsets take a lot longer. Sit on the deck and have a glass of win with crackers and salami and listen to the quails call. This activity has a very long tradition.
A new tradition is visiting the Goodwill store out past Safeway. Last year Stuey and I got all our shirts there. This year I only found one decent shirt but Nora got a leather jacket and a sweet pink flamingo hat.
One evening driving back from Safeway Nora and I saw a badger cross the road. We drove up next to him/her and she was looking right back at us. Looked exactly like Bucky the Badger - all the white around the face. Then just as Nora got the iPhone out to take a picture she ran away. I am an alumni of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a huge fan of the Badgers. This is the first real live badger I have ever seen in my life. I take it as a very good omen or augury. I gather auguries were based on observations of birds. So maybe there should be a word for 'good things foreseen' based on the observation of badgers.
Patrick
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| My favorite grill in the whole wide world - I've been using it for 30 plus years! |
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| Nora modeling some cool Goodwill discoveries |
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| Pretty much a 'Sasquatch' picture but that is an honest to god badger trotting away on the mid right |
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