To be honest, this is one of those posts I do now and then just to annoy all you people who live in a place where you have to dig your car out of the snow every morning…
Yes, that is indeed a few tumbleweeds floating in the bay in San Diego. That sort of sums up our whole winter experience… because we live in a desert… with palm trees and beaches.
I had to go down to the beach yesterday to do some paperwork with a new tenant at those little bungalow apartments my mom owns.
I have this weird thing I do… shut up, stop laughing, and let me finish… I have started renting the four tiny apartments mostly to foreigners. People from most other countries do not think those apartments are as small as most Americans do. They just have a different perspective when it comes to living space. Americans are more spoiled.
The other thing is that I can learn all about other cultures and the food they eat. I have rented to a French guy, a French girl, a Polish guy, and now my nice Spanish girl is leaving me… but her friend, a student from… I think she said Hong Kong… but it might have been Taiwan… is moving in. And she made us all this big meal to celebrate…
It was a big hot-pot with beef and chicken and fish balls and shrimp and all kinds of vegetables…
You could stick whatever you wanted to in either the spicy side or the not-so-spicy side, and let them cook for a little while, and then add them to your soup bowl…
I could have taken 50 pictures of my bowl and it would have looked different each time.
There is my friend, Ben. He is part of a lovely couple from England, who are also renting from me. He is also the only one who wanted to be in the blog. He is a sound engineer and does the sound for concerts all over the world… and I mean big concerts.
After lunch I walked the couple hundred yards… or meters, for my international followers… up to the Pacific Ocean, and took this picture for you…
Oh, and also this one…
Once again, if you are living where there is deep snow, you can feel free to come visit us… but please do not move here… we are full… anyway, when I first walked to the apartments, I took this picture…
And just a couple of hours later, I took another picture from almost the same spot…
I like them because in the first one, the bay is as still as a millpond, as they say, but in the second one, the wind is rippling the surface of the water. I just think they make a nice matching set.
Oh, and I met this cute little guy hanging out on the back of a motor home…
We had quite a conversation… with lots of whistling and saying: ‘hello’.
So for now, goodbye from sunny Southern California.
And merry Christmas!
Pouring My Art Out 
Must be hard to get in the Christmas spirit with all that heat & sand!
requires imagination
Grrrrr…. food looks good, weather looks better… we got no snow, but it’s cold yo. We are going to send a storm or two your way, mark my words. I said mark my words!
oh, I’m marking them… I give that one a B-
Schmack! Mark that!
Mark Twain… Or maybe; Mark Twang…
Yeah ok, I could deal with a winter like that
It ain’t bad
I tend to hibernate in the winter though, what would I do without that ability?
get more done?
get less done, since I’d be outside more enjoying the weather
that is how it works
although, I’d probably prefer to be more active outdoors for more months, I used to ski, but it’s been a long time, the last time I wiped out pretty bad, actually I wrote about that in Grimm, that’s my real ski wipe out, I’m more of a hiker, and I love the beach
I have skies a couple times
my wipe out wouldn’t have been as bad if they would have adjusted my boot to my ski like I asked them too, the ski didn’t release even as I was rolling and bouncing down the mountain, and when I landed it was sticking perpendicular out of the snow with my leg twisted around, minor injury miraculously, but I still got to ride down the mountain in an emergency toboggan which was the highlight of my winter that year
but have you ever been escorted through two international airports wearing handcuffs by two shore patrol goons whilst carrying your own seabag, and then sit between them on long flights… the story gets much better… not that I am saying that happened to me… on this blog…
no that has never happened to me and I want to know more
Is want to tell all these stories… I wonder if I can un delete that whole blog
probably not
Yup
I’ve seen those dishes, looks delicious. Isn’t one half really spicy and usually it is over a flame and you put your fish or meat in to stew and cook at the table?
Those photos are amazing, and I am pining for sunnier climes. I am usually heading off to Thailand about now but am stuck in the UK this year. Good to know it is warm then, I will have to renew my visa…
That is what you do with those pots, and yes, renew it!
Yum Yum!
muy muy
You speak Spanish
poco
I’ve never been so insulted
I bet you have… ha
yes, only twice today though
oh my
And I found my disc to reinstall my printer. The art project hangs in the balance The squirelles are amassing as I write. To be continued…
Happy Holls…a daze.
ha!
oh yeah
I know!
yup
Printer scanner up and running again. The squirrelles are dancing with glee.
me too to two tutu
hahaaaaahhahahHA!
yup
It is overcast and drizzling in South Africa, I enjoy a break from the heat but I get depressed if the rain goes on for too long.
Suicide rates actually go up in places where it rains too much.
Just a little factoid from up here in Ottawa with about 12 inches of snow on the ground and below freezing temps. If the ice in Anarctica and Greenland were to melt, sea level would raise 60 meters (about 190 feet or 19 stories). Now this would solve your Greenland blog visitor problem nicely but would spell problems for beachside apartments. Just sayin’ from a very cold Ottawa.
Thank you for retaining water
Pft
what now?
Nice weather while we have snow and ice..
oh… right
Guess you were talking to me, after Buffalo, NY’s 7 feet of snow last month (fortunately my northern suburb only got 2 feet). It’s all gone now, though, and today it got up almost to 40 degrees. But to be honest, I’d rather deal with snow than with all the mud after the snow melts. It’s just too hard when you have a dog that needs to go out into that muddy yard – and then come back in.
Well… our dogs have to learn how to lay in hammocks and drink pina coladas under the palm trees… so…
We’re warm and wet here after sunset we’ll be cold and wet. No snow though, we seldom see snow.
It is funny all the environments people live in.
It’s a shivering 65 degrees (18.3C) way up north here in LA, sunny right now but rain expected tonight. It’s a tough life in these northern regions but we manage… uh oh, I think I saw a cloud… gotta take cover….
We really do need some rain… even if it will make most of us menaces on the roads…
Must you pour salt in the wound? *sigh* Really? …. another *sigh* But thanks anyway. 🙂
It just needs to be done now and then… sorry.
Oh, I bet you are sorry. Hmmmm …. *giggling*
you caught me
Sigh. It’s another very rainy day up here in San Francisco, although the sun did come out of hiding for a few hours yesterday.
Well it better clear up by next week…
Northern Virginia is pretty nice too. It’s 55 and sunny outside. Of course, I’m inside. It’ll be cold and dark when I leave. Sigh.
I feel your pain…
No you don’t.
Oh wait, I’m not in pain. I’m in SIDE.
HA!
Merry Christmas from freezing Michigan!! I felt warmer just looking at the pictures!
yay