The other night we visited a friend's friend for snacks and drinks.
The place was beautiful and had a giant inground swimming pool which
we got to swim around in. The swimming pool had a rock waterfall that
has hot water coming over it which was so freaking cool.

For snacks we had sushi and all kinds of cheese and olives. It was
the first time I ever had fish free sushi and it was blah. Not just
blah, but heavy. I really like the fish part. the thing about raw
fish is that it is light and compliments the other ingredients.
Cooked chicken in my opinion its too heavy.

Sadly, the only pic I managed to takeoff the evening was this one of
(e:terry) playing with his wind chime which was pretty awesome.

The iphone does an amazing job with video. The quality is so much better in the orginal but its 40MB. Here is the 7MB compressed version.

Basra really likes strawberries. You could get him to follow you are the backyward all day if you had one on a string.

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Today while eating crabcakes at globe market, I spotted some nice looking pottery. Its all set up around these local art displays, so I assumed it was local art.

The one brown vase and the aorta one both struck my fancy and both were reasonably priced. The brown one was really heavy. Both had a tag on them for some artist/dealer on hertel.

They both look pretty orginal and I was all set on buying both or either.





That was until I flipped them over and saw they were from Vietnam and China.

Oh man, our pear trees which have like 1000+ pears are suffering from pear leaf blight

I think the wetness and windiness made it worse and we might lose the whole crop. It is probably too late to spray as the infection seems really severe.

I tried to trim back the highly affected areas and remove all the infected leaf bebris on the ground.

This looks like it could be fun. Just a random pic I found on flickr, sadly I was not there taking the pic.