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Summer Concerts in the Park Begin with Preservation Hall Jazz Band and The Stone Foxes
There is nothing more gratifying to the body and soul than the melodic sound of live music in the midst of nature. With Summer in full swing and the blue sky beaming, the Stern Grove Festival brought forth another cast of musical talent for its concert in the park. Introducing… Preservation Hall Jazz Band and…
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A green bat?
The land is alive under the warm summer sun. Where there is water vegetation is clamoring in a race for the sky. Collards are head high; beets are beautiful; the first carrot has perfect form; and the squash corner could be a palace for a cat. From the prolific plants comes the beginning of the…
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Celestial Celebration
The doldrums of the week have broken in a brilliant veranda. The mid-west campers surfaced from the woods just after the search party called looking for them. The master test plan began taking shape. My second surprise summons to the cone of silence was the cake and an invitation to the observatory after our evening…
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Times Are a Turning
The time warp finally broke after our fun outing to The Great Wall restaurant and a beautiful perspective point. Wednesday felt like Thursday; Thursday felt like Wednesday. Settling down to a reread of Hary and the giants to put the mind at rest and some good oranges and greens for the body did the trick.
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The Summer Breeze is Coming
The Cloud Striders have discovered the San Leandro Summer Breeze. The marina breezes are keeping the San Leandro coast nice and comfortable and so the Summer Breeze is a fitting name for this marathon/half marathon/10k fun run. We did the trail for our Avenue of the Giants preparation and decided the trail was a beautiful…
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Mutt Strut 2012 is Taking Shape
Mutt Strut 2012 – CCB’s annual puppy walk/fundraiser – is happening September 8th in San Francisco. What a great excuse to get out, walk around and have puppy fun. All the details are going live on the newly designed CCB Mutt Strut site
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Humboldt County Crud Banished
The week of the Humboldt County Crud is finally over. Today, after a week horizontal, active life resumed again. The excitement of last Thursday can become a comical memory.
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Blooming of My Roses Begins
Spring is in full bloom! For another year the roses are amazing. All bushes are budding with beauty and creating some of the biggest flowers ever. From afar one may note that the bush on the right corner of the house, the one on the left of the steps and even the middle front bush are making…
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NASA provides rare images of the Transit of Venus
NASA provides rare images of the transit of Venus View the video Sky watchers gathered across the country Tuesday to witness the planet Venus floating across the face of the sun—but chances are they didn’t see it like this. The best seats in the house belonged to NASA, which captured images from its own high-tech…
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System Crash Strikes on Lunar Eclipse
Today my Braille Lite 2000 crashed again. It has been functioning flawlessly over the past year since the last memory corruption occurred (when for the first time I found null charactors popping up in the files). This is the worst yet and rendered the unit effectively inoperable. The miracle is that “interface Rick” had just…