Look out, Jimmy Lightning!
I’m not proud of this. Well, kind of, I am.
There goes the weekend
Bless their self-serving hearts
Let’s talk a little politics this morning, OK? My main interest is on the national level but on the local level I regularly attend city council meetings. It’s usually better than TV. The board of supervisors seems more yokel than local but I do plan to start going to their meetings soon. Maybe for Lent.…
Carnival, Arctic blast & drones
Doesn’t take long for the New Year to settle right in. Here on the first full week of 2015, I’m reading about the Jazz Fest dates (April 24-26, and April 30-May 3) and the Carnival events piling up during this compressed season, starting tomorrow and ending on Mardi Gras, Feb. 17. I also am focused…
Holidaze
Did you have to remind yourself that today is Saturday? It’s okay. The holiday season has a way of mixing up our routines and causing us to forget the day, the date and where we put the keys. I’m coming off a bout of something nasty and was looking forward to a quiet, rainy afternoon…
Walk this way
I’m just back from my last daily walk of the year. Whew and Amen. For the second year in a row I’ve filled in the entire calendar on my walking app. That calendar and a spoiled dog are powerful motivators. Total distance this year was 609 miles. (I may still try to round that number…
Brushstroke magic
Brushstroke, my new favorite app, turns photos into this (with apologies to my artistic friends):
Sunday gallery
Bay Council recap: Machine shop tabled; dumpster funk deepens
Downtown merchants prevailed at last night’s Bay Council meeting, saving the public parking lot they consider a tourism asset. After hearing several pro-parking lot speakers, the council voted unanimously to reverse the decision to surplus the parking lot on Main Street behind the former City Hall Annex/Chamber office. That surplus building, you’ll recall, was recently…