In the Tent

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Yesterday afternoon I got tired of working in the yard and put up a tent in the back yard. It's our smaller tent, but it's plenty big and has a great opening. Cleo and her pals spent most of the afternoon and evening in there, but late at night I tossed in my bedding and book, donned my special cap with lights built into it and went to bed out in the tent.

It was a nice night. Around 3 a.m. I woke up and went out of the tent to look around. The sky was clear and I could see the Little Dipster, the Big Dipster and Tittleman's Crest.





Here's our back yard:



Here's a pretty flower that has nothing to do with my fantastic tale of sleeping in the tent:

A Trip to The Grotto

Greg and I walked from my house to The Grotto this morning. By my calculations it was about 7.7261 miles. The Grotto is a cool but strange place, wonderful in its wealth of natural beauty and a little eerie in its Sorrowful Christ theme. Here are some photos:

The Tower, from the upper chapel:


Some shots of the many, many sculptures there, to give you a feel for things:





And they have a visiting scupture, a bronze replica of Michelangelo's Pietá, made from a cast made in 1932 from the original, which I think dates to 1499. (here's a random shot of the real thing, at The Vatican).)

A detail of the bronze one at The Grotto:

Save Big on Gas With Natural Pork

From a Safeway ad:

How I Spent My Morning

Reservoir Frogs

Unclean language. But Muppets are unclean things.

Old Hickory Lookin' At YOU

Olden Times

Tough Guy

You Find it Funny?

Are you laughin'? He's speaking the Word.

A Trip to Camp Howard

Cleo was at Outdoor School at Camp Howard last week. She had to return to the Citizen Factory on Wednesday, so I brought her back into town for part of the day. It was a nice drive, up past Corbett and overlooking Bull Run reservoir.

A Trip to the Beach

How To Make Iced Tea

Heh. Excellent delivery, terrible way to make tea:

Creature Legs

Bird Smuggling From Vietnam

Here's an evidence photo of a guy arrested for trying to smuggle birds into the U.S. from Vietnam. From The Smoking Gun.

Building Light Show in S.F.

What in the Hell?

Killer in the Garden

Iris Cleans Her Room