January 2024 Fifty-nine posts

• 26-Jan-2024

  
  Passing in Tempe? I’m in Tempe Arizona this morning. It’s a lovely place. This is alongside the river this morning. I like to swim. I can’t swim here. So where can I swim? There’s a pool at the hotel. There’s a YMCA. Those would work. But where’s the fun in that. In researching this I came up with...

  Arizonahistoryraceswimming
• 26-Jan-2024

  
  “Water is the salve of the ravages”

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• 25-Jan-2024

  
  Blue Hawaiian in AZ for K. (Not pictured: Sazerac for me)

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• 25-Jan-2024

  
  Drizzly goodness morning

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• 24-Jan-2024

  
  Afternoon at La Jolla today

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• 24-Jan-2024

  
  Al & my Friendship-as-Garden theory Here’s Al Abut looking through a lens: This is not a recent photo. It’s a blurry photo I played around with this morning. I like the playfulness of it. Adriano Santi took this photo (more or less) of Al in Seattle in 2007. I emailed Adriano and he tells me “I think Pinguino took that...

  alabutfriendship
• 23-Jan-2024

  
  Some Bodysurfing Ephemera It rained something awful over the last 2 days in San Diego. That makes the water quality crap due to crap runoff. So while I’m prevented from going in the ocean, I’ll disgorge a few things about bodysurfing I’ve been meaning to read and write about my favorite pastime. First, here’s a quote I’ve been...

  alabutbodysurfingstoke
• 23-Jan-2024

  
  MRS. CRAWFORD, 1968 MRS. CRAWFORD St. Rita’s Catholic Church was the scene of the wedding on June 15 of Miss Phyllis Silva, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Arthur Silva of 7002 Skyline Drive, to James Joseph Crawford. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph James Crawford of 4801 Mt. Gaywas Drive. After a wedding...

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• 23-Jan-2024

  
  Phyllis Silva in the news. In 1965 The cadets at Morse have chosen Linda Conrad, a senior, to reign as queen over the annual Cadet Ball March 13 in Balboa Park. Linda will be crowned by last year’s queen, Phyllis Silva. – National City Star-News, Volume 82, Number 54, 11 — March 1965

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• 22-Jan-2024

  
  I hankered for grits this morning. I went and found grits. And as my mother would sing: “rain, rain, go away, come again some other day”

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