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Just odds and ends that we had to post.

03-17-2024: A morning walk. Ondine is still taking it easy after her knee procedure, so we just did a short loop on the mountain, then came home and took the dog for a walk around the neighborhood. That's African Senna in bloom.

03-10-2024: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress at Lamplighter's Community Theatre. It was excellent! And, afterwards, we walked over for pizza and wings at Round Table Pizza!

03-10-2024: Pyles Peak with Shadow! John took the dog for a longish morning walk up Cowles Mountain and over to Pyles Peak, about 8 miles round trip.

03-02-2024: Testing raingear! It was raining, so we headed up the mountain to test our raingear.

02-18-2024: Lunch with Grammy. Roy and Leo joined John for the drive to L.A. to visit his Mom. His sister Elaine joined us at Kabuki.

02-17-2024: Pyles Peak. All these years tramping around Cowles Mountain, and we'd never been up Pyles Peak! We rectified that today, and it was a great hike, definitely worth adding on.

02-04-2024: A walk with the dog. We went up the fire road and down the other side to the Mesa Trail, where there was running water.

01-27-2024: Leo is a Grossmont Griffin! We walked to Grossmont College with Leo to check out the campus, find his classrooms, and get oriented. He's going back to school, aiming to knock off his GE classes at community college and transfer to a four-year school to study engiineering!

01-21-2024: The Crucible at Lamplighter's Community Theatre. The best production we've seen, because of subtle updates to the production that made it overtly current.

01-20-2024: Belated German New Year's. This time, thaks in part to Leo, our fish was perch from Trangs, which was the best New Year's fish we'd had! We tried to get a nice group shot, but ... kints. They're each trying to be taller than the other.

01-14-2024: A walk with the dog. John and Shadow took a walk ont he mountain. Here are a couple accidental photos of each, taken thanks to fuzzy "smartphone-compatible" gloves.

01-13-2024: Going to Tip Top Meats. The kints joined us for the German groceries run to Tip Top Meats in Carlsbad, and of course we had lunch.

01-01-2024: Oshogatsu. Here's our traditional Japanese New Years feast, with ozoni, makizushi, and all the yummy things, in front of the Rose Parade on KTLA!