Well, there might be a thaw if MS gives her SIL an Easter present…

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…or not

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yes, much better not

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Oh I miss the feral parrots! 🦜

(This on a January 8 a few years before flames consumed west Altadena on the most recent Jan 8). The parrots are there
In that part of the town, and I’ve seen em on visits there, but until the house is habitable again it’s a chance meeting and greeting.)

ooooh!

ooooh! inspiring! I need to take a walk but the arroyo is some miles west of my location, so I won't be heading there. But maybe I'll steal away to that. I just saw a thing about the hidden stairs in W Pasadena on the western edge of arroyo. Hashtag Goals.

My boyfriend bought a meyer lemon from the nursery, planted it in a large container and we tended it a time. Harvested the fruit (large, round) two years later. We've taken to call the red grapefruit bush the "Meyer grapefruit" Oh, LOL at that two year reveal!

Omg this brie is so soft and oozy. It definitely colors outside the lines.

(Also: pairing it with grapefruit marmalade — yum. Also paired grapefruit marmalade with avocado toast today. Yum yum!)

She, after all, studied international relations at Northwestern and also worked at a consulate in Argentina in some capacity, so she certainly has a sense of The Things That Can Be Done. Well done!

But wait, isn’t there that spectacular footage of him running scared through halls of Congress on the day his people on his side attacked Congress?

Is also available on Kanopy (available via some libraries)

www.kanopy.com/video/10422293

Sending good wishes, no winds, and thinking humidity thoughts.

Ah, LA! (I recognize those fire-scarred San Gabriel Mountains)
Plus the concrete center divider with that little local je ne sais quoi