Scum of the Earth

Well I haven't posted here in over a year as FB is so quick and easy but I found a bunch of spammers the lowest scum there is on some of my posts and cleaned them out.Maybe I'll start posting again.By the way one of my last posts was on the person/s leaving gifts on the church steps before X-Mas.The saturday before Easter I was sitting across the street from the church waiting for the bus when I glanced across the street and saw someone had left a Weber Charcoal grill on the top steps next to the doors and not a little picnic Weber the full size one.

The Hat Lady Returns

I picked up a bus in Santa Monica today and there was the hat lady from my neighborhood whom I haven't seen in months.But instead of a homemade grocery store hat she was wearing a store bought thing I can only describe as something a Victorian woman would have worn on a tiger hunt in India.She did not seem to know who I was today so I did not mention to her the rather strange headgear.

Farewell to an old friend

I received an email last night about an old friend that passed away in early Sept down in the North County San Diego area.Suzy was our bookeeper for years and had retired some years back and moved back south to her home area.She was born in Brawley CA in 1920 and lived in St.Louis,Paris and Los Angeles but she was also Japanese American and she and her family were interned at the Poston,Ariz war relocation center.Poston was three camps with 17,000 people which made it the third largest city in Arizona at the time.Irony of Irony it was designed by Del Webb who went onto fortune building retirement"resorts" in Ariz but Suzy was a prisoner in her own country for doing nothing wrong.The camp was built on the Colorado Indian Reservation over the objection of the tribal council but approved by the BIA.What is sad is that the same thing could happen today given the hate filled rants of folks like Rush,Ann,Glenn,Sean etc who use the "Illegal Aliens" as the bogeyman.Suzy was a fascinating woman who did not mention very often her treatment at the hands of a right wing sentiment gone overboard much like they still preach today with of late more invective.I have never been to Poston but I have been to Manzanar up in the Eastern Sierra a few times and it is a haunting place to think they kept loyal American citizens prisoner because they wern't white anglos.

This Years Haul

Well no Mercedes but a good day.I received a great hooded sweatshirt from the Wellfleet Beachcomber,A Fenway Park,Red Sox long sleeve T-Shirt,a four CD set on the Philly Sound,a mutli dvd set of Charles Kuralts On the Road series,The hardcover book on America's Natl Parks from the recent Ken Burns Series,A jug of NYState maple syrup,A nice framed photo of an old barn in Naples,NY,a 2010 calender of old Rochester,NY photos,A Bluto Pez dispenser and several other gifts.

Let it Snow

I've been watching the Weather Channel a lot and they had a Guaranteed White Christmas contest going on and the winner turns out to be a family from Summerland Key which is down in the Florida Keys*.I'm thinking snow in the Keys,gee that's a novel thing but it isn't the straw snorting kind of snow so I can't wait to see what their backyard looks like when the Weather Channel gets done spraying the snow all over.*back in the early 90's we rented a place in Middle Torch Key down near Big Pine and each night we would walk down to the beach waving lanterns hoping to entice a coke boat to drop a load.

Provincetown Jug Band pre-1977

Happy Winter Solstice