I was recently elected Membership Director of the Brotogeris Society International. We are a group of pet owners, breeders, and enthusiasts who love the Brotogeris parrot species. This species includes the Grey Cheek Parakeet, Orange Chinned Parakeet (both of whom you can see in the main mast photo above), the Canary Winged, White Winged, and [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 27, 2008
Wisdom
Those wise ones who see that the consciousness within themselves is the same consciousness within all conscious beings, attain eternal peace.
The Upanishads
February 18, 2008
Adventures with GPS
My husband has discovered portable GPS (global positioning system) technology. This is a little box you can put in your car that speaks to you and tells you where you are and how to get where you want to be.
He is absolutely entranced by them (he actually owns two of them, a Garmin Nuvi and [...]
February 11, 2008
Bathing Beauty
My friend Kathleen and her husband Jerry have a lovely little greycheek boy named Pekabo. She takes lots of pictures of him and recently took this series of him bathing. It’s rather hilarious that with all the selection of bowls Peak has to choose from, he crams himself into the smallest one available! We don’t [...]
February 10, 2008
Ronaldo’s Question
I got recruited by Xerox Corporation to be a Technical Representative while I was attending college (a Technical Representative is the person who comes to your office and repairs your Xerox copier). Each hiree for technical employment was required to attend Xerox training in Leesburg,Virginia. There was a huge campus there where people from all [...]
February 7, 2008
Los Angeles Driver’s Manual
HOW TO DRIVE IN LOS ANGELES
1. You must first learn to pronounce the city name, it is L A.
2. The morning rush hour is from 5:00 a.m. to noon. The evening rush hour [...]
February 5, 2008
Half Marathon Man
This past Sunday my hubby Bill drove down to Huntington Beach to run in the first annual “Surf City USA Half Marathon”. Even though it was quite cold and raining, he completed the run, which was 13.1 miles. Bill is a natural runner; he runs once a week and can run 10 miles easily, so [...]
February 3, 2008
An Old Friend I Found in the Closet
No, it’s not what you think. Although I do have one old friend whom I believe actually is in the closet. But I digress.
As I was cleaning out that closet, I found this ancient tape recorder. It’s a Craig 212 from the late 60’s and gives my age away. When I was a kid, I [...]
