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Old Town in San Diego isn’t only about dia de los muertos art… part 2…

More photos of my epic adventure with my English relatives in Old Town, San Diego… But I didn’t want to give you impression that all the art was dia de los muertos-oriented. Oh no… mixed in among the stores and … Continue reading

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Old Town in San Diego isn’t only about dia de los muertos art… part 1…

There are also flowers… Lots of pretty flowers… Flowers grow well in Southern California… because it is sunny almost every day… and because, as you might remember from an earlier post, the people of Southern California, where I now live, … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 6…

So have you looked up the Mexican ‘dia de los muertos’ festival on Google yet? You should, because I might forget to tell you about it. But I am ready to tell you why I have so many pictures of … Continue reading

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My English relatives have gone… so now I have more time to post about my English relatives…

There I am, teaching my cousin’s boyfriend, Malcolm, that it is okay to drink the less-manly blended strawberry margarita… as long as you get the extra-macho grande-sized ones. Yup, I am still posting pictures taken on the first of the … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 5…

Even if you haven’t bothered to Google ‘dia de los muertos’, and have no idea what these pictures are about, you should at least by now be impressed by the pure volume of my crack-squirrel-filled-head-induced dedication to this project…  Ten … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 4…

So by now you should have finished your homework and Goggled all about dia de los meuertos, right? And now that you know all about ‘the day of the dead’, you should know a little something about the folk art … Continue reading

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So maybe you were thinking I just made the whole thing up about our English relatives coming to visit…

So… you did your homework and went back to last summer when we visited them in England and did lots of cool stuff… so I shouldn’t have to introduce them, right? Just kidding… that is Malcolm, Lynne, and Dot. We … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 3…

Brightly painted skull in sombreros… and skeleton ladies in beautiful dresses… what does all this have to do with my English relatives coming to visit us in San Diego… what does this have to do with anything??? And gee, Arthur, … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 2…

I would love to tell you what happened yesterday on the first part of my newest adventure… We had so much fun with our visiting English relatives! But I need to get ready to go out again… You know… For … Continue reading

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Dia de los muertos… part 1…

So why, you might well ask, when I just made such a big deal of my English relatives coming to visit, am I showing you a picture of a skull? Well, don’t let it worry your pretty little head! This … Continue reading

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