Weekend of Oct 28-29, 2006

Shirley called yesterday evening to say Dad's in the hospital. 10/28.

Nov 5, I talked to Kelley (sis-in-law). Got the name of the nursing home.

Nov 8--talked to Shirley. Dad is better. Still in nursing home.

Weekend of Oct 21-22, 2006

Crazy Days continue at "Bridges".

John R & John L ... Cabin 9 ...piano abandoned by JL put out on porch at 2 am, then on lawn a few hours later-- by Larry.
Jesse donned a hockey mask & with a chain saw, cut up the piano the next morning. Larry paid him $10.
Larry cleaned up the remains Saturday evening.

Larry ... Cabin 3 ... punched out Gordy. Why?
Gordy ... Cabin 4 ... because Gordy provoked Larry. Gordy was trying to get rid of Karrin by leaving her at Larry's house. She'd been with Gordy all day. I guess he was fed up with sex, booze, maybe drugs, & "Rock 'n Roll" in general. And besides, Karrin's ex-husband Mike that she lives with in Cabin 6 might wake up any time now.

Mel ... Cabin 5 ... loaded her shotgun ... too much craziness going on.

Mike ... Cabin 6 ...woke up.

Rose & Matt ... Cabin 7 ... missed most of the above. Sound asleep by 7pm most nights. Rose did see the Chainsaw Massacre of the piano by Jesse.

Meeting on Sunday 10:30 am
More Later.

Lettuce Harvest at 3 am

The Headline actually tells the story.

In the past, the work crews that were in the field waited until 6 am to turn up the LOUD Spanish Station music. I live right next to the lettuce field and appreciated that consideration.

But today, the work crew had Mexican music blasting out over the Salinas Valley and Salinas River. The main difference between "Spanish" and "Mexican" is that at 3 am you know darn well that there is NOBODY from Spain out there harvesting lettuce!

But if you know me, you might also know that I see life on many levels/planes all at the same time. So you might be able to understand that since I couldn't sleep anyway, I took a look out of the bedroom window & saw what to some people might look like aliens (from Outer Space, not Mexico) because it was somewhat foggy & there were bright spotlights and machines (where they were placing the wrapped-in the field-lettuce), and a bus towing a couple of porta-potties. I guess even "aliens" need porta-potties. Ron Howard could have been out there directing.

Carrot Juice Paralyzes Two Humans

And it was organic. Botulism raises it's ugly head.
"When in doubt, throw it out" and now there's a problem with the "new" stuff not properly handled.

Lettuce Attacks Newscasters

Man--nothing's safe anymore. Actually, lettuce has had the E-coli problem in past years.