went to visit one of our kids at their church to take pictures
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Berries should be square
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I guess church is worth it if you get strawberries after
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It's not a lily but we have a...

pretty fun looking night

It was a little cold (51 degrees but moist air) We had a good hike with a lot Happy Saint Paddys from fellow hikers (I had forgotten it was Saint Paddy's).
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Love the cows. We have a couple near the conservancy

I get lucky every once in a while. Especially with birds. Normally they hate me

We went out to oak glen and had a wonderful time. If the santa anna's die down next week we'd love to do a trail at Joshua tree. The desert with hurricane speed winds isn't my idea of a good time,...

some of The Merry Wives
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Oscar Wilde (an excellent presentation
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Abraham Lincoln
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Tea and strumpets
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A wonderful 2 days in victorian england (at least southern California's version), People representing the great writers, scientists, politicians and celebrities presented lectures on their lives and...

pretty interesting

one lives in Fredrick and the other is a park ranger in Baltimore.

although now I have an urge to make some new sporrans:^)

It was alot colder than southern california and I have apparently acclimatized to the warmer weather because I was really cold. Toward the end I started feeling better in the cold. I only brought my...

a year of piping (or listening to piping) is a year well spent

I'm glad you liked them

we went for the near weekly hike and the fall colors were quite nice. It was a nice day around 60. We are apparently heading into a bit of wet this week
On Monday we went to down town riverside to...

If there'd be any of the rabble around. My son and his wife are looking to move out of California and the area really impressed them. Erie even has a strongman gym.

My son, his wife and I flew to cleveland and then drove to Erie PA so he could compete in the National semi[finals for strongman corp. He was competing for the first time there against the 66...

someday I'll have to get to tnis one

my daughter is visiting from Maryland so we went to the san bernardino museum. The first thing Iniko, my granddaughter saw was mammoths. From then on it was excitement and joyous squels
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My...

some day I'll get one of those but southern california is just so hot all year round. Of course there is my annual visits to yellowstone in the spring

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The Highland Way (Love that band)
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Me throwing the hatchet

the viking festival was very fun. The competition went very well. It was good scottish weather (overcast both day).
Big James Rude doing the opening ceremony. He also won competition
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My...

This is my dog Grizzly deadlifting 945 pounds.
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2023-9-16men and the 17th women at the Vista Viking Festival. There was a preliminary competition last saturday in Huntington Beach. My son placed 2nd (by 1 point). There will be other competitors...

I didn't get as many in this spring/summer's games. The san diego had them over away from the other fields so I never knew when there were cabers aflyin. It was a good decision for the fields...