Wildlife: A Redtailed Hawk soars above the hillside up from the junction of Lakeshore Drive and Buckboard Lane almost every day. I saw it perched on a dead tree next to Little Foys Lake this morning.



Visit: A Tale of Two Movies

Weather: Bumped our heads on the clouds all day -- dark, low, and drizzling.

Charity Alert: The Animal Rescue Site Goal: 2.7 million bowls of food this month -- help them with another click please

Garage Sale Booty: A Mickey Mouse telephone from the early 70's that really works -- rotary dial and all. A "Teenage" how-to-dance book from 1952. The author is Betty White. (Not THAT Betty White.) The title of one chapter is "The Lindy, or Rock and Roll."

Media Watch:
Sublime -- Sarah Brightman's DVD Live In Las Vegas -- slightly different from the show we saw in Spokane, as to be expected. Longer, with some new songs -- always good, but also some padding of the show here and there -- not necessarily an improvement.
Ridiculous -- Elvira's Haunted Hills, also on DVD -- filmed in Transylvania, with the remarkable Richard (Riff Raff) O'Brien. Coulda/shoulda been a funnier movie. Cassandra Peterson makes me laugh, when she's commenting from the OUTSIDE of a flick, but there's many problems when she's INSIDE a movie. The character Elvira reminds me of Bugs Bunny, which is a positive criticism.