this is the anniversary month of my coming here.   In the 3 years ,  we have used these batteries to provide life to the phone and laptop.   To this blog.  To probably a lot of sanity.  To a real Safety during the fire seasons.   There are always  at least 3 of them, sometimes 4  that…

twinkle twinkle   since everything else is under the lense of ReView this year,   might as well include…..Christmas.  so…What's my deal?…..  My kids grew up with "normal" Christmas.  The grandkids in their homes.   Somewhere along the way i drifted.   But before here in California,  there were always Twinkle Lights.   There was the year that grandson…

i was so excited about the Cedar,  i forgot the ball here.   If you click you can see it well.   And maybe the reason i never saw the Cedar Trees is because whatever  tree this  is born of is just on the other side of the road?   I didn't go there i guess,  last year,…

Emrie, Tay and i walked down ,  or up,  Carefree Way.   Further than before.  Emrie likes being the one to  be in charge of Tay's leash…the long one,  which is actually a lead for a horse.   She can do it now.   We walked and further down the way,  there was a bright reflection….. CEDAR!  …

i kept wanting that top right piece to be there.   i changed its  position,  manipulated its form over and over….No.  I went to sleep.   i woke off and on in the night….there was no world out there…none.   it was cold but i stepped outside,  and no,  no world.   This morning i could see why….FOG. …

Jeff,  my grandson,  Alyssia's Brother,  my daughter's Son,  Father of Jaxon who i call Fate,  his woman T,  their daughter Brinley and T's brother Casey who is blind among other things came.   They came from where they live near Sacramento  to get fire wood.   They have a fireplace.    It's been maybe since Spring since…

originally there was just the two pieces of cloth and then,  the small scraps of clothtalk thereon.  Those,  all so light and wispy.  The addition here of that final back layer of orange/gold cotton brought this one around to how Jude taught us to layer…harem cloth in the middle   (here it's the very thin piece…

first,  the Fail.   Sweet Potatoe.   I had changed its water everyday and then forgot…2 days,  maybe even 3?   FAIL.     Season end.   a so so great Success!…..through 4 onslaughts of the Deer,   plants continued and never gave up.  More leaves,  more blossoms,  more peppers.    so…..PEPPERS!!!!!!!   YeS!!!!!!!   

Biden has nominated  NMex Respresentative Deb Haaland to be head of the Department of the Interior Interior….think of the meaning,  the Interior Department of the Interior of this part of the north american continent. Deb Haaland,   of Laguna Pueblo  New Mexico.  60 year old Native Woman  who traveled to Standing Rock in 2016 and took, …