cliff hanger

hiking with nacho yesterday, the river was raging and full. it's hard to keep him out of the water. i tried to get him positioned in front of the rapids for a picture and said "Sit" and he sat and fell in a hole.

he was cool with it.

i wish i were more like nacho. i would have freaked out, fallen backwards and cracked my skull and spine and died. which seems like an okay way to go sometimes. better than stomach cancer. 

he also saw a cairn. and became mildly over excited.

My Potato Project; The Importance of "Organic"

which potato would you rather eat?

lunch time on middle school day at the tourists game

throngs of tweens

from different schools

not much beer

no good hot dogs

new color scheme

90 in the shade

only kids could sit in the shade

broiling in the sun

peanuts

t-shirt launcher

positive momentum

party sombrero

yesterday was nacho's birthday. he has been hopping all over this world for 8 years now.

he ate some hamburger with bacon and tomato.

he has a new hero that he found on the internet - a bitch named taffy. she is 19 years old. she goes to his vet. nacho would like to live another 11 years too.

happy birthday nacho supreme!

many vaguely dirty words...and where's the vineyard?

Behind the Radio Tragedy!

sweet, exciting, insightful recent video here. new album coming out next week.

http://tealeafgreen.com

fresh death

the houston astros uniforms used to be incredible. orange and gold 'comet trails' - the height of awesomeness.

now they are awful. they look like eastern bloc prison uniforms. could not be blander.

wtf?

el chapala

there's a mexican place in asheville where the waiters are fast & friendly and call you 'amigos.'

it's hidden behind a steinmart and there are no signs to find it.

the food is what you would expect. the tacos a la parilla are an amazing deal for $2 you get 2 white corn tortillas and meat and a big bowl of fresh pico de gallo.

the best part is they really know how to "celabrate." with 34 oz dos equis mugs and a half a bottle of wine in each goblet.

viva!

purple hearts

from betsylife i learned that memorial day is not happy.

nevertheless, highlights of this weekend included:

• planting herbs
• marcos pizza
• getting a new tennis racquet that is bigger and wider and therefore easier to hit and playing on har-tru court
• dozens of dog barf episodes
• both dogs
• eating grass
• in the car
• walking through clouds of flies in the woods past beautiful rushing water
• economy size wine

andrews not geyser

while in old fort over the weekend, we followed signs to 'andrew's geyser.'

wikipedia sayeth:

A geyser is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by a vapor phase (steam). Generally all geyser field sites are located near active volcanic areas, and the geyser effect is due to the proximity of magma.

i was interested to see what kind of phenomenal natural water spout could possibly be found around here.

something like so? -

or like so? -

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or how about something more like so:

this is andrew's geyser. it's a hose. a fountain that was made by the hands of men. it makes me want to cry.

may showers

we don't get real tornadoes in asheville but we do get huge thunder and lightning storms.

new orleans house bursting with plants