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I wish Boulder Photo a Day would start posting again. His blog is a pleasure to visit.

I've been searching out local Boulder Blogs (which are harder to find than I thought).
Martin Acres Life is a delightful blog about life down there. It's sort of new but the fella shows a high interest in the area that's contagious.
I was drawn to Peak Soil by a story about a man who is developing his own CSA in local front and back yards. Brilliant! I wonder what he does about the deer?

Honey and I took a little nature break to go up Fern Dell Canyon in Griffith Park, then a bigger break with "Lars and the Real Girl" at the Vista Theater at Sunset Junction. I love that theater's Egyptian art deco theme. The cell phone pictures are pretty poor quality but I had to try. Only $5 each for matinee, too. The movie was really lovely.
Tonight the Santa Ana winds are picking up and bringing temps in the 90's for the next few days.

It rained a few nights ago in Hollywood and there is still a constant drip outside my window. The cool, moist air is really fall-like. Everything seems quiet and calm here - there are sirens every now and then, but not like in the past. The neighbors painted the front of their house and the building across the street spruced up the facade. I think someone found out about steam cleaners since the sideways don't have so many dirty spots.

Could it be that things are getting better around here?

I love Fresh Produce. Comfortable clothes in great colors and they have a great annual sale. Thousands come to a big warehouse-type building and strip down in a common dressing room to get the clothes at incredible discounts. So when I got a coupon for a store sale, I decided to help them with the overhead and check it out. Found a fine little blue cotton skirt that I love for about $15. Love it.

Yesterday, I made a detour to Wal-Mart in Superior to get some tee-shirts that I can't find anywhere else and breezed through the women's department. There, on sale was my skirt marked down to $3.50. Could it be? Same color, same style (maybe lacking a decorative stitch), ok, none of that stretchy material added to the cotton mix and, just like the FP version, MADE IN CHINA. I grabbed it and another one for good measure.

Now, I know that Wal-Mart is supposed to be evil, but when you're buying marked up goods from China either way, what is the difference which wealthy philanthropic family gets the profit? This time I went with the one who is offering $4 generic drugs and affordable walk-in health clinics.

Hi Dave.

Hazel Miller is such a classy lady. We went down to the Boulder Fall Festival just to catch some of her band and they didn't disappoint.

The dinner at 14th Street Grill was fine with that hefty turkey dinner sandwich. Don't know that I would go back, though. We do go back to Da Gabi in North Boulder. We just zip down the tapas menu and order most everything under $5.00 with a pizza for the hungry boys.

We just changed over to T-Mobile after years with Verizon. Aside from a few customer service problems, no reception at home, and iffy reception on vacations, Verizon was ok. T-Mobile works like a dream. We got the 5 favorites account so all our calls to our home line are free, to each other are free, and we're still saving about $50/month over the Verizon plan we had. It's a small luxury to be able to take a phone call on my cell while I'm standing in my kitchen or on my deck. Great customer service in the store, too.

I just completed a 'quality of life in Boulder' survey and sent it in, wondering what they are going to do with it. They wanted to know how was the sense of community in my neighborhood. What would the city council do about a neighborhood with a 'bad' sense of community? And they want to know my feelings about pop-ups. Why?

The back deck is finished and now the steps are being figured out as they are being built. You'd think that putting in a few steps would be simple but when you don't know what you're doing, it's really not.