So Lea emailed me this afternoon to ask if I’d seen the spider by the Japanese maple when I was home for lunch. I hadn’t, but her description (and the less-than-optimal look at her photo on my phone) made me think it was probably our old friend Argiope aurantia (aka the yellow and black garden … Read more
The Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex, part of the public school system, was just completed on the site of the Ambassador Hotel, where its namesake was killed in 1968. It will house 4,200 K-12 pupils when it opens in Los Angeles next month. It cost $578,000,000. It’s not, you know, real money, though. It’s … Read more
Did some yard work at church before the boys’ soccer games, then did the same here afterward. It feels like I’ll wake up regretting that I didn’t use sunscreen. Gee, if I could find this level of physical activity three days a week and never stop, I could probably keep my atrocious diet. Yeah. So. … Read more