portals

portals, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

holden is cured!

i'm looking forward to

going camping this weekend to celebrate love and friends and see waterfalls

going on the purple la zoom bus later this week for someone special's birthday

jutrut is doing a extravaganza of a mountain biking weekend that i hope to witness firsthand at some point sunday - enduro de ocho

my friend teamuck took this amazing photo & click to see the ones around it: Gold Gate/Black Hill

longest day

food lion skate park, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

happy solstice

no turning back now

i like the other solstice way better

jen & the juice

jen & the juice, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

had a most delightful lunch hour listening to the sweet rocking sounds of jen and the juice in pritchard park downtown.

they're doing free music weekly through an arts 2 people program.

this is good stuff.

yard of the season

yard of the season, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

somebody's resting on their laurels

computers for christ

computers for christ, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

he loves to email

computers for christ

computers for christ, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

unbelievable

black mountain, nc

tree around the wire

tree around the wire, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

another reason to bury power lines. a tree claimed its territory & was cut down.

soup recipe swap update

there has been no discernible progress:

today's menus

greenlife asheville:

Miso

Clam Chowder

Broccoli Cheddar

Spicy Dal

Chicken Noodle

Spicy Lebanese Garden Vegetable

greenlife chattanooga:

Black Bean Chili

Simply Chicken

Farmhouse Soup

Parmesan Chicken Artichoke

Spinach and Chickpea

Chicken Cacciatore

Thai Coconut Salmon

dare

brush and floss your teeth with your eyes closed. if god forbid you went blind you'd have to do this every day.

3 little birds

3 little birds, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

this is my message to you-hooo-hooo

happy father's day!

bonnaroo webcast

so you don't have the time, money, or immune system to make it to manchester tennessee for bonnaroo music festival this weekend?

there is a live webcast - great sound quality, lots of close up camera angles, it's better than being there.

stream it live


right now it's the drive-by truckers passing a bottle of jack around stage. you can see them spit when they sing the picture's so clear.

raconteurs, les claypool, metallica, two gallants, tons more all weekend long

if it's not one thing

i got to the bottom of the swallowed bone mystery.

a couple weeks ago i was pulling out of my driveway when an old man who lives at the end of the street walked by.

he asked me if i liked poke sallit. i said i never had it. he said his old lady keeps asking him about the poke patch in my yard, and if i planned to eat any of it. i said no thanks, i had no idea, he's free to pick whatever he wants out of it.

i saw him last night & he told me as a thank you he's been leaving bones for my dogs.

i showed him the 20 staples on holden's stomach & he started to cry.

he said he left some chicken wings and a pig's neck yesterday morning. they were gone from where he left them and nacho must've eaten them when i let him out.

nacho threw up last night at 2 am. and again at 5 am. i haven't slept since 2, i've been staring at him waiting for him to throw up or his stomach to bloat up.

i called the vet the minute they opened and told the story & said i'd like to get him xrayed to see if there are bones stuck in him and got an appt. for 1pm

since then he's seemed fine, i fed him a little at 8 & just walked him around the block & hasn't thrown up again and he seems ok.

it is probably crazy of me to take him for xrays. but jesus christ.

googling tells me poke salad is a southern delicacy similar to collard greens, but is actually toxic to humans and should not be made or eaten.


*****UPDATE*****
nacho is gonna be fine, the x-rays showed the bones are passing through his system, he has gastroenteritis & he's on prilosec and semi-liquid diet for a couple days.

dios freakin mio