Category Archives: Stories of my life

Some pictures of Olivia while I explain why I have to go away on yet another adventure…

So… things are getting confusing around here… it is turning into a photo blog… I am only half way through all the pictures of the recent visit by our English relatives, now I have pictures of my two days babysitting … Continue reading

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We interrupt the regularly scheduled posts about our visiting English relatives for cute kid pics…

A pair of squishy faces!!! So I have spent the last two days at my babysitting job with our friends’ daughter, little Olivia. I took her to the aquarium here in San Diego, and my wife joined us there. Man, … Continue reading

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Even more fun with the English relatives…

Uh… no… those aren’t the English relatives… those are chairs… There I am, making sure that cousin Dot and cousin Lynne and cousin Lynne’s boyfriend, Malcolm, don’t fall in the fish pond. Now some of you may remember the botanical … Continue reading

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But does the horse have to be so… uh… anatomically correct???

Here we are on day two of the recent visit by our English cousins… We went to Balboa Park. I have never bothered to find out why there is a statute of El Cid there… That was the last view … Continue reading

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In which I finally tie in my visiting English relatives directly to dia de los muertos…

Here they are… the very last pictures of the first day with our relatives visiting from England… and our exploration of Old Town in San Diego… We have all learned a thing or two about the history of the region, … Continue reading

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Gay wedding dia de los muertos tiles!!! How freekin’ cool is that???

It is so nice to know that the Mexican festival to honor and remember the dead is all-inclusive… and, that that inclusion extends to the afterlife. I hope you have enjoyed these posts of Old Town in San Diego, and … Continue reading

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A mammal with a reptile dysfunction… ha… oh man… I crack me up…

So, while we were gallivanting around Old Town with our English relatives, I was standing outside a toy store when they all went in to poke around, and I spotted this lovely couple through the window… The thing is… and … Continue reading

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It’s all relative(s)…

There is my cousin Lynne and her boyfriend, Malcolm, getting silly with a covered wagon in Old Town, San Diego. It is always fun to see things that you have begun to take for granted through the eyes of  other … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 7…

Maybe you thought I had run out of pictures for this dia de los muertos thing… But I tried to tell you… I walked a long way to get all these pictures… I had fun doing it, and I thought … Continue reading

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Well, that doesn’t seem like a very good idea…

But I should be fine… as long as nobody fires the gun… Oh man… and I thought Mollie’s boyfriend liked me… These are more of the photos I took in Old Town while our English relatives were visiting. There are … Continue reading

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