happy birthday swirls

an eleventh hour birthday wish to charlie swirls rocking chickens in roanoke

phil's can safe repair

our friend shiny haired phil just created a visually stunning way to repair the top of your can safe, should the top come apart.

here are his step by step simple instructions

here's his flickr photo set

he is crafty like macguyver

because of the tricky tops i've stopped making can safes and now it's all peanut butter jar safes all the time.

seger vs. springsteen

i find it hard to repeat this quotation that i love correctly to a group of people:

"Some people call Bob [Seger] the poor man's Bruce Springsteen, but personally, I always thought Bruce was the rich man's Bob Seger. Love 'em both, though."

- Bob Dylan in April 2008 Vanity Fair




bob seger doing 'ramblin gamblin man' on a 60's tv show 'happening'

already june

a wise man counts his blessings while a fool counts his problems - michael franti says something like this

my weekend's been full of barfing dogs, birthday parties & upcheering & unplugged rock n roll at a subdivision on a sunday afternoon, yee haw!

worry wart

don't press the red one, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

well i went back to the dermatologist this morning, and he was not concerned in the least about the spot on my shoulder, he said it was not basal cell tumor or cancerous and it's just a skin growth and he shot it with liquid nitrogen for 30 seconds or so and sent me home. said stay out of the sun and come back in a couple years.
it's really hard for me to trust doctors. but he was very confident. but i still don't fully believe him.

soup is always greener

there's a grocery store that's a chain of two stores, one in asheville and one 4 hours away in chattanooga tennessee, both publish their soups du jour online in a different tab of the same website so it is easy to compare the two every day.

the other place's soups always sound so much better.

compare -

Greenlife Chattanooga:

• Parmesan Artichoke Chicken
• Mushroom Kale Soup
• Tofu with Lemongrass
• Shellfish Pesto
• Chipotle Chicken Chili
• Parsnip Tomato
• Roasted Red Pepper with Spinach and Cheddar

vs.

Greenlife Asheville:

• Vegan Asian Peanut
• Smoky Corn Chowder
• Vegan Split Pea
• Chicken Noodle
• Creamy Tomato
• Spicy Dal

no contest, right?

insect update

i have moved away from a black widow's nest to a new house that i found holds a couple little black widows of its own, but nothing like the last spider's den.

the newest form of wildlife to plague my existence however is the amazing jumping spider, also known as the camel cricket or the cave cricket. it looks like a nice big thick bodied and legged spider but it JUMPS. 2 feet in the air from a standstill. i have killed three in my bathroom this week. i killed two with a flyswatter and i made nacho kill one. from a sound sleep in another room he rushed to my aid hearing "nacho! nacho! get him! get him nacho! he's jumping! right there! nacho get him! jumping!" and the friendly polar bear cub batted at the cave cricket with his paw and off came a couple cave cricket legs and nacho looked at me like 'this is not food' and that was pretty much the end. i realize the wallpaper looks like a butterfly bamboo forest but it is not acceptable place for jumping insects to live.

DITLOA reception

there was a reception tonight for the DITLOA (day in the life of asheville) photo project from april.

the pack library downtown hung the shots in their glass hallway windows, and tonight the photographers brought snacks and family and mingled and looked at the photos.

i picked 'family walk' to be printed, and one of the judges picked 'clothesline' to be printed also, so i have two hanging up there.

i am proud of myself for going to the reception. i went by myself and i didn't know (in real life) anybody who was going , though i avidly read some of their websites and might be 'contacts' on flickr. there was no liquor, during daylight hours, could be kind of intense in a room full of 60 people all with cameras, as one who greatly avoids being photographed. so it was kind of a scary uncomfortable thing that afterwards i am very glad i did. it was excellent and kind of surreal to see these creative talented people in 3-D.

i met in real life

ashvegas
the latest and greatest up to dated regularly on asheville

zenography & honeytoo
wondrous photography

hangover journals
funniest perspective

rocketman & heart mommy
in a space suit

gritgoods
looking so familiar

mogmismo and amy

edgy mama
hip parenting tales

and they were all just plain lovely

my dates with destiny were gone in no time flat

if you are downtown, walk into the library and look at all the photos - they're captivating and offer a hundred new reasons to love asheville

wild turkeys

wild turkey, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

there's a pair of turkeys on the loose in north asheville, last i saw they were flying from yard to yard making guttural squawks and scaring the crap out of dogs.

logistics

logistics, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

amjam stages

amjam stages, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

asheville music jamboree was this weekend, and it rocccccked! here's a night view from the best campsite of the festival, clear sound lines to both stages and a nice lake in between.

more amjam photos here on flickr

and then? and then?

abandoned drive thru, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

no and then