From Adelaide we shot over to Melbourne for a few days to attend a wedding between my cousin Amy and her fiancé Andrew. We bunked […]
Chronology
Melbourne and the Stobie Wedding
Raspberries
Adelaide
We’re just finishing up an almost two week visit to my home town of Adelaide, Lilia is now quite the little traveler after an almost […]
How Much I Love Food
The Lindberg Wedding
We took a trip south last weekend for Robin and Dan’s wedding in the tourist enclave of Solvang, which happens to also be Dan’s hometown. […]
Johnny JumpUp
Bail Out My Student Loan
This really irks me. I had a bit of a rant in 2008 about the federal government bailing out delinquent home owners (Bail Out My Mortgage) and […]
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit
The Man In The Rockefeller Suit, Mark Seal I kept having to remind myself that this is a non-fiction book when I was engrossed by […]
First Halloween
Lisa had been waiting for months to dress up Lilia in the koala outfit she bought online, Halloween finally gave her the opportunity. We counted […]
The Young Wedding
The big day finally arrived yesterday: Luke and Katrina’s wedding. Carol found a brilliant old ranch in central Healdsburg where we all stayed for the […]
The Rehearsal Dinner
Sweet Potato Machine
Davis Bordessa
Wednesday morning when I woke up for work I had a text from Jacque that she had sent at 3:48AM: her water broke! Yesterday we […]
Cadillac Desert
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Marc Reisner Brooke Bakker put me onto this book a few months ago when we were visiting […]
More Swimming
Morning Photos
Muir Beach
Lilia and I had a solo day together today, we took a bit of a hike on the Owl Trail between Muir Beach and Slide […]
The Bordessa Pig
When I was a kid a pair of my parents’ best friends – The Jarvises – bought a small ranch (farm) in Yankalilla, a rural […]
Sarah Drops In
We had a bit of an unexpected visit this weekend: my cousin Sarah was on her way to Wisconsin and then Miami for business and […]