Recent content by packleader

As seen this morning on my usual walk. @StarSong Since Friday evening, I measured 1.9" for a total of 2.4" this rain season. There is no "official" record for our small town. San Bernardino Mountains (San Gorgonio Mtn 11,500 ft)............San Gabriel Mountains (Mount Baldy 10,000 ft)

Our small town feels like living on the countryside with so many farm animals, as seen on my morning walk. Left: The first time in his life that my 14 m/o puppy met a horse. 45 years ago, every other house had a horse; now it's becoming rare. Right: But chickens are plentiful. My wife also has...

Left @StarSong While you are getting soaked (upper left,) we only have had a drizzle so far (to the right of the center.) Right: But keep in mind that a wild fire is still burning at this moment to the East of the Sierra Nevada Mountains (The Pack Fire in California.) Left: I had to kick...

Life as a bachelor while my wife is in Italy. Well, my older daughter will stay with me; and my younger daughter will come by frequently. My younger daughter is driving my wife 70 miles to the airport -- My wife is joining a church group at LAX for a pilgrimage. It's an 11+ hour non-stop...

@Sliverfox If you are cold, then come and visit me. But hurry. Rain is in the forecast, and then it usually cools down. At noon, it's already over 90F degrees. By 2:30 pm, it will be a few degrees warmer. Have you ever seen a "holy" Blue Jay (with a halo?)..............Having had Rex for 2...

I am trying to cheer you up with the flowers I saw on my morning walk.

Left: A half year after her retirement, my wife has recoved and finds the energy to turn our 6 y/o grandson's play area back into a living room; and to clean the refrigerator and every drawer in the kitchen. We designed the house ourselves although a Cal Poly architecture grad student put in a...

Do I get on your nerves with too many pictures? I'll try to take a break. Death Valley National Park where my daughter and her friend Scott are camping. The pictures are copied from my iPhone. Solar panels to supply energy for the Internet via satellite (the laptop is at bottom left) as well...

Aside from the first picture, all others are from our morning hike. I still have to set back the time on my camera. Left: After only 24 hours, my grandson's Beagle "Zero" and my puppy "Rex" had bonded. So, when my daughter came to bring Zero home, Rex jumped into the car as well in order not...

My daughter sent me more pictures from the Death Valley National Park (copied from my iPhone.) If I were younger, I would have joined them on this trip. Below is a rare spring (the curved arrow was inserted by my daughter.) Camping without facilities and lost somewhere in the boondocks. A...

The first pictures from my children are coming in. Obviously not the main entrance to Death Valley National Park. Will my daughter make it back? (Copied from an iPhone video) Please, no playing in my bedroom. My grandson on Halloween at Disneyland. (Copied from iPhone.)

I don't know who is more destructive: my 6 y/o grandson or my 13 m/o puppy; too much energy ... But for sure, my grandson loves dogs. My grandson last night at early trick'n treating ... Today and overnight at Disneyland & Hotel, while I dog-sit his Beagle pup on the right. My older...

All three are sleeping. I hope Rex doesn't fart. Mom, what's cooking? Because my wife's pantry is overflowing, I keep some "delecacies" in my own walk-in closet. In case of the exspected 8 point earthquake, we have more canned food supplies in the shed. My experience with dental...

Just another morning walk admiring the mountains and breathing fresh air. Top right: it looks like a hippie guy is camping here. Mt. Wilson on the left, 60 miles away, with an observatory and TV towers above Pasadena; Los Angeles lies further to the left. 5 year old Heidi is sitting, while...

Dearest @hollydolly I desperately wish you were right, but you are not. I just don't have the energy anymore I used to have. Between 1999 and 2019, I hiked the 3,000 foot high Box Springs Mountain hundreds of times. I can't make it anymore. But watching my lifely year-old puppy gives a lift...