Hell’s Half Acre

Where oh WHERE did I leave my “sleep til 10am” personna?  I am getting up earlier and earlier and it is driving me nutzo.  I was up BEFORE 4:45, (9yeah, in the AM – I know!  It is craziness!) and finally got up for good at 5am after tossing and turning and deciding I . . . → Read More: T minus 5 hours and counting

The last few days of frigidness and coldness and just downright MEAN coldy icy frigidness have had an interesting effect on the humidity scale.  When the humidity drops to desert percentages (oh, anything below 60%) for a long period of time (say, 3 days), my “vertigo” goes away.  It will be interesting to see . . . → Read More: Magic 8 ball sez

Ellen has been begging for earrings for what seems like a year.  I’m sure it has been much less time, and she has been dedicated and sure.  We’ve been talking and talking and promised her that she’d get them for her birthday.  Unfortunately that didn’t happen and yesterday we finally made good.

I’ve never . . . → Read More: piercings and tatoos

If you’ve been following along (there will be a test at the end of this post, so Pay Attention!) we’re planning a trip back to the US.  We have actually been planning a trip back to the US all summer.  We were first going to meet up with our folks in August, somewhere in Texas, but when we found out we’d only have 2 days together we nixed that plan.  Ever since we left our stick house for a life on the road (though, at the time, no-one knew it was going to be a life on the road) we have managed to summer in the US.  Last year we were working on construction of the palapa so we stayed here.  This year the diesel prices were insane in the US (or was that just propaganda?) and we thought it would be best to conserve resources and stay here.  But we really wanted to visit with Jody again and see our family again and, well, put the rubber side down and roam. Continue reading California on my mind