Sam

Shana and Victoria have their dog Sam (Samantha) with them. We people all left and got in the car (a car you say!?) leaving Sam in the house.  At the last second, I remembered something in the house, so I ran back in moments after we locked the door, and Sam .... well, let's just say she didn't waste any time doing things she's not really supposed to do. 

And you could totally tell that she knew it. 

S & V

Shana and Victoria are visiting! Yay!

And as we are wont to do together, we partook in a little sippy-poo of whiskey.

We Are Santa Cruz

So there was this project called 'We Are Santa Cruz' where anyone that wanted to could walk across a stage, and you would be filmed, and the video would play downtown in a vacant building's window for all to see. We've seen the video playing in town and it's pretty cool. Lots of different people with different interests walking by.

Here's a still of when Lynne and I walked by. Yeah, that's right; we mountain bike.....

(And we're pretty damn cute.)

Awwww...

Kitten update:
We received a picture of one of the five kittens that Lynne fostered. It's pretty cute. This is Trace-who-is-now-Quincy. He is the kitten that was adopted out solo. The other four went in two pairs so they had company. But Trace (Quincy) went alone, and we were very worried about him getting lonely without his family.

Here he is with his new sister Kayla.  I think he appears to be doing A-OK!

Enlightenment II

Again with the enlightenment...

Okay, so we changed plans, and decided to pour a concrete pad at the cottage end of our Path to Enlightenment. (Yes, brother, we added a step...)  Because clearly any Path to Enlightenment consists of more than one step. In fact I dare say it *always* consists of at least one more step than planned.

But the real reason that I know I was on the correct path. The reason that I know my Path to Enlightenment was the right and true Path to Enlightenment was because it was work - hard work. But more than that - more than the hard work,  just as I had finished ... just as I stood to look down upon my smooth concrete pad - my handiwork - my labor of love and spiritual advancement....... a bird pooped dead center of the pad. No shit! (pardon the pun) You don't get a better sign than that to let you know you're on the right path.

Enlightenment

So I think we decided that we'd name our little guest cottage "Enlightenment" ... which means that what we've been working on in the backyard is .... (I'm sorry) ... the path to Enlightenment.

I really am sorry. That was really bad. It's not my fault though; I get it from my parents.