michael jackson was here

mj was here, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

i was 8 years old and full of lies!

Michael Jackson was here when you weren't!
P.S. I could bring you an autographed poster!

itch

i highly recommend tea tree oil - a drop straight on a mosquito bite as soon as you feel the itch - it will stop itching immediately and be gone the next day - no more red mountains of mosquito on your limbs

the difference

field, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

here's what happens to grass in a drought, exactly one year later

not too drastic but there's less green

parched

the southeast is in a drought.

where i am it is higher than extreme - it is exceptional.

i moved here from southern california because i missed rain. i felt guilty every time i turned on the faucet knowing that they dammed the colorado river to get water to san diego, a desert, and that's not right.

the past couple weeks ive really started to notice all the lawns in asheville are brown like hay.

it's depressing.

there's nothing i can do about it but move.

i don't have to live here - my job is on the internet and i can live anywhere with electricity.

i love it here and i love all the people i've met.

i feel guilty about sucking water out of an overtaxed system.

i absolutely would not have moved here had i known about this drought.

i'm thinking of vermont. i'm thinking of colorado. i'm thinking of oregon.

is that crazy?

i hate feeling guilty, and every time i use water that's just how i feel.

the rivers are way down, the lakes are way down, trees and bushes are dying of thirst, this is no good.

happy birthday queen bee MOM

smile, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

hope you have a wunnaful day! thanks for making everybody smile! i hope that rascal henry is bringing you breakfast in bed right this second.

vintage vantage hunk

vintage vantage hunk, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

tijuana - city of tomorrow in the window of hunk in downtown asheville today

vintage vantage dot com

54 years experience

54 years experience, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

that's a lot of years at one job

where's zach's cd?

can you find zach gill's new cd? can you find the mappy camper? can you hear guadalajara joe?




good stuff!

zachgill.com
brushfirerecords.com

Foods from Fresh Water

Bait

As a general rule, fish bite bait taken from their native water. Look in the water near the shores for crabs, fish eggs, and minnows and on the bank for worms and insects. If you catch a fish, inspect its stomach to see what it has been eating; then try to duplicate this food. Use its intestines and eyes for bait if other sources are unproductive.

- from the 1969 Dept. of the Army Field Manual Survival Evasion and Escape

she's ba-aaaack!

she's ba-aaaack!, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

for the next week and two days nacho will be chased around by this whiskerfaced bitch! he likes it.

damn chocolate

my neighbor brought over a giant chocolate chip cookie that she baked this morning. it was probably the size of 6 cookies. and i ate half of it before going to see my friends' band play a party tonight. it was a potluck dinner & i didn't have too much there & when i got home at midnight i had the other half of the cookie. i'm still wide awake and it's 5:41.

i need to remember this next time i want to eat a bunch of chocolate on an empty stomach at bedtime.

the party was great fun, i love live music, but i love it even more when it's my friends playing it, and they sound good!

here's video of a post-show unplugged acoustic jam, complete with playing of the spoons.

deeply missed

deeply missed, originally uploaded by skippy haha.

"Whoa whoa whoa, Miss Lippy. The part of the story I don't like is that the little boy gave up looking for Happy after an hour. He didn't put posters up or anything, he just sat on the porch like a goon and waited. That little boy's gotta think 'You got a pet. You got a responsibility.' If your dog is lost you don't look for an hour then call it quits. You get your ass out there and you find that fucking dog."

knock on a tree, my dogs haven't escaped in over a year. when they have gotten out, they stick together and someone has always seen a black & white dog roaming the street and herded them inside & called me. when holden was a puppy he ran away for an overnight at some strangers' house down the street where they had a chocolate lab. they called the vet & said they found him, and i called the vet & said i lost him, and i got him back. that's the longest he's been missing.