Sunset. Sacramento River, Isleton, California. 79° @8:25 p.m. #california #deltasunset #peacefulday

Moments ago, BF ( aka 'Big Fuzzy') showed up. I'd just finished drink & was a bit wasted. Not easy getting up gracefully to fix food for her. 😅 After 9 YEARS, she lets me get about 2.5 feet from her.💜❤️💙 #FeralCats #Cutwater #CATS💙 #Relaxing #'retirement' #gainfullyunemployed #seriouslyrelaxed😁

I hope everyone's having a safe & sane(ish) #4thofJuly. @local (Placerville, CA) coffee house. I didn't know this marker was her. It was found during roadwork in late 1980s. I❤️ 💙 the history of the US Lincoln Highway. Boyscouts installed them across the US in late 1920s. #USHistory #LincolnHighway

Latest read: "Faith can easily make one fanatical. That's why all religions have cost so much blood... Tolerance is the daughter of doubt..." History keeps repeating. Truth unexpectedly pops up anywhere. #classicnovels #WWIInovels #greatwriters #ReadBooks #Booksky #takeabreak #history

Taken at opening of Obama Library. #Obama #Clinton #Biden #Bush #EDUCATION #SmartWomen

"A people without the education that will give them a knowledge of the world... and the mental training to think out their problems cannot function efficiently as citizens..." An interesting & educational read. And one that points up the fact that people, as a whole, learn NOTHING from history.

Just got from a friend...

At Placerville Public House. The Herrick Building from 1853. Rumored to have stump of Hangman's Tree in cellar. Stamped tin ceiling, floor vent. This was a corner grocery store early 1960s, when my family moved here. Lunch: 'Soltice Tacos'. #goldrushhistory #placervilleca #bekind #takeabreak

Small Mexican Train group had a tea last month. We decided going forward May is Tea Month. #teatime #mexicantrain #uptontea #eatwell&lavishly Favorite tea by far was 'Season's Pick Assam'- Finest Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe #1. Found out the '1' denotes "Too good for ordinary people."😂😂

This is still SO apt.

A magat before MAGA was popular.🤬😡🤬😡 Never seenba more miserable looking human.

Anybody else see a resemblance?? Took me a few days to recall the cartoon... #Shelterkitty #Doonesbury #Caturday

This is another of his i didn't know about. I went to a Van Gogh immersion exhibition years ago & discovered paintings he'd done that i was more moved by than many of his better known works- "Roots" is one.

I've just spent hours searching the feed looking for one specific post, which vanished when i shut the phone to take pics. OP said, "Use the good china every day!" & i want to tell them, "i'm right there with you!" #Goodchina #everyday #beautifuldishes #treatyourself

I found a bookclub at a library which mainly reads non-fiction. No set book, we all read what we want and then we 'present' the book. This is my choice. Fascinating history. #Readbooks #Bookclubs #Non-fiction

1:10 a.m. Can't sleep. Substitute whiskey for tequila and voilá- trying to keep the giggles quiet.... don't wanna wake my sister.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I think i broke Google...

Finally, a walk over El Dorado Trail's new bridge. Hour+ jaunt, followed by taco al pastor, beans & beer. #alpastortacos #Saturdaywalk #Californiasunshine

Seen on vehicle at clinic on tribal land.

This. #democracy #bluevoter #keepingsane

I usually take down decorations on January first. It's dark and rainy here in the Mother Lode of California, so they're staying up one more day.

And this will be the end result. Eventually.

Tomorrow's projects: take down the tree and CLEAN the desk. Today: chicken verde and dinner out. Happy New Year, everyone!🎉🧨🎆🎊🍸🍷🍾

A Gerhard Glück cartoon.

Woke at 4 a.m. w/ nasty cramp in right calf and foot. Took a bit to go back to sleep. First thought waking at 9:30: "French toast!" So, French toast w/p'nut butter and maple syrup. On my g-ma's Limoge: time to dust those dishes off.🙂

After reading Dorothy L Sayers' "Gaudy Night", in which mentions New College, Oxford, i printed the reading list for the 2025 term @ N.C. Oxford. Winter reading now includes Wilde Dickens, Woolf, Auden, Lowell and many others. Bon appétit! #reading #classics #writing #oscarwilde #poetry #brainfood

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