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rashed to the ground luckily the search and rescue team had a booth nearby here are some other snaps of the actual parade a group called the funeral band i think it was hard to hear the announcements over the din of the crowd plus the announcer himself must have been 200 years old also part of the funeral band this young lady knew how to dress for the occasion as does she hopefully this was not the funeral band okay i ll pose but only because this is so boring poor old lady liberty teetering on stilts bless her heart bless all our hearts dog daze repost from 2013 july 3 2026 jt twissel 9 comments my very first fourth of july post on the fourth of july we always walk downtown for the parade with our neighbors and their dog our neighbors have the coolest dog in the world if he were a human he would be cary grant suave and sexy but with a playful side with his golden slightly curly and very soft fur he charms all the lady dogs and the young studs too but steers clear of german shepherds be careful confronting a german shepherd he could be either a jimmy stewart or a mike tyson an odd couple waiting for the parade like cary grant our neighbor s dog doesn t approve of exercising in the heat and often wrapped his silky body at my feet in the shade before they fell in love with cary grant the neighbors had a black dog not sure what breed who they called toby one day toby came up for a visit when i said hi toby he glared at me my name is jack he said well not in so many words but with that look dogs ll give you when they think you re a nitwit toby s human equivalent would have been humphrey bogart mysterious but trustworthy a hopeless romantic with a cynical shell must i really prance around in this get up at the time the neighbors had toby jack i had a dog named berna short for bernadette she was a shelty beagle mix i found on the bottom of a heap of pups at the pound her siblings had more energy and looked much more eager to be rescued but i ve always cheered the underdog and in this case the bottom of the heap dog she puked and pooped all the way home she always stank she couldn t be car trained or trained at all for that matter she d run onto freeways get her head stuck in costco sized mayonnaise jars and dig up every living thing i tried to plant in the back yard but her crowning achievement was a spot on a channel 7 news story exposing the water wasters of the east bay this is a long story which illustrates the depths of depravity a film crew will go to get a scoop guard dog she was not bay at the moon dog she was escape artist par excellence when i put my house on the market the first agent scowled get rid of the dog you ll never sell this house with her in it i got rid of the agent anyway enough about dogs when i started blogging i resolved to leave politics grandchildren and dogs off my list of subjects and here i ve gone and broken my vows nevermore i swear can t have a parade without a jazz band on a flat bed truck the next best thing about the fourth is how it brings out the rebel in all of us who doesn t love marching down main street in a happy riot of fellow citizens for a few hours owning the streets what a sense of freedom it is girl in hat watching parade the girl with the flag in her hair july2014 july 2 2026 jt twissel 12 comments family waiting for the parade i live in a town only large enough to support one grocery store but we do have a library and a community center and on the fourth of july everyone comes out to play in the past our parades have consisted primarily of the boy scouts and brownies swim and football teams the city council and anyone running for office every classic car in town kids on tricycles local war heroes high school marching bands and lots of dogs hot and otherwise but things are a changing cast from seussical this year we had the characters from the musical seussical grooving in brightly colored costumes to raga tunes and a horse drawn carriage i think they were sponsored by one of the banks and not coors but just seeing them made me crave a beer member of the cast of dracul the tiny theatrical group in town which puts on mostly murder mysteries in an outdoor theater also marched in costume of course not new but always entertaining was the juggler who rode a unicycle in the parade and then entertained the children at the local park while their parents drank beer and listened to a jazz band the juggler he appeared to be having as much fun as the kids new and probably the most unusual of the participants was the stilt lady dancing a brazilian rumba i m afraid of heights so she terrified me when i first moved to this area over twenty years ago there weren t that many people of color in the parade however as my neighbor noted that is changing as is the town it s a good thing to see girl with the flag in her braid and hubby on the way home hubby and i stopped at the local mexican restaurant for margaritas and to watch the world cup our waitress had an american flag sticking out of her french braid and spoke with a such a strong accent naturally we had to start up a conversation with her it happened to be her very first fourth of july as an american citizen having migrated from northern ireland now i don t like what s happening in this country all the hatred and division some days i m so fearful of the future i m tempted to migrate elsewhere but she had such a glow about her that i decided not to ruin the day with politics even my hubby held his tongue it was after all the fourth i was about to cancel and then i watched this movie netflix june 30 2026 jt twissel 18 comments i was about to cancel my netflix subscription because i m getting damn tired of watching dark crime shows where everybody mumbles and everybody gets naked and sweats and groans all over everybody else everybody struggles against the evil but it doesn t matter because everybody knows the bad guys are going to win in the end unless some zombie comes along and eats them all well i exaggerate but only slightly and then i happened onto this movie it hadn t been promoted by netflix at all and so i had no idea what it was about ignorance of the subject matter turned out to be a good thing i ve watched far too many movies about the nazis and wwii if i d known the subject matter i probably would have passed however this movie is different we ve all been in situations where we know we could have done more to right a wrong but didn t either we were afraid for our physical safety or we needed to keep our jobs or we felt helpless believing it wouldn t matter what we did nothing would change we re not alone it s a perfectly human response particularly during paranoid times the thing is that extra step doesn t have to be a big one sometimes it s just a matter of doing your job properly a tiny clog can bring down a powerful machine anyway the acting is superb i watched it in swedish and had no trouble understanding what was happening most notable was the actor playing gösta engzell henrik dorsin i read that in sweden he s considered more a comedian singer and revue artist than an actor that was hard for me to believe flying anyone june 27 2026 jt twissel 17 comments this post is for sustainabilitea over at this that and the other thing who posts interesting photos and asks readers what they see what do you see also at this same location an exhibit of low rider bikes the two wheeled variety the one above is called by reason of insanit y once again proving that art is everywhere one egg down mourningdoves june 22 2026 jt twissel 18 comments not a good way to start a week one small round egg smashed by the door i have no idea what happened nor will the mourning dove ever be able to tell me this morning quite early my husband said aloud who s knocking at the door i d been drifting in and out of sleep and hadn t heard a thing you were dreaming i said no one is knocking at the door perhaps only in nightmares is the truth ever known he or perhaps she looks a little sadder a little grayer this morning but perhaps it s just me i ve never been good at handling the harsh realities of needing to eat to live which always means a sacrifice by the smaller and weaker perhaps i will sleep on the porch tonight think that would help i hope your week has started off a lot brighter than mine an update from the nest mourningdoves june 18 2026 jt twissel 28 comments i have no idea when mama mourning dove laid her eggs i first noticed that the nest which someone had begun to build at the end of april had occupants on june 7 while i was still preoccupied with other guests and as you can see from the following shots the nest is not easy to spot entering the house can you spot the nest she could have been for who knows how long silently tending her eggs exiting the house how about now can you see it according to ai it could take up to 15 days for the eggs to hatch and then another 12 to 19 days for the baby birds to fly away there will probably only be two baby birdies if we re lucky if we can help protect the nest from predators like raccoons and squirrels i was worried about the poor mother bird because she never seemed to leave her nest was she getting enough food and water and then i read that both mother and father mourning dove tend to the nest and to their offspring so perhaps mother takes the day shift and dad the night shift or i could have the process in reverse does anyone know how to tell a male mourning dove from a female from 2024 perhaps the grandparents to be laying an egg june 13 2026 jt twissel 40 comments lately i ve had guests out of town guests who came and went at different times and from different airports waiting for a delayed flight at a park just south of oakland airport that s san francisco in the distance out of town guests who once lived here and wanted to catch up with friends and other family members which meant hosting an endless stream of mostly hungry folks for days out of town guests who wanted to make the four hour drive to reno to visit other family members where barbecues had to accommodate the gluten free lactose intolerant vegan mocktailers and the rest of us slovenly alcoholic beasts who will eat and drink anything feeding the fish at the california academy of science those guests were called adult children mine were especially brilliant they knew and diagnosed everything wrong with me and presented viable solutions such as it s time for the assisted living mother reno nevada i bet you thought it was all casinos and sagebrush thank you persons formerly known as children thank you very much perhaps i should warn this mourning dove that the eggs she s spent days sitting on will hatch and become out of town guests before she knows it what do you think right outside our front door i m going to take a break from blogging to try to finish several writing projects it s a foolish thing for me to do because the one book i have managed to republish is dying on the vine but i have stories to tell and they won t let me be that doesn t mean i won t be enjoying your posts just not as often ps i will let you know how mama mourning dove does with her offspring all the mice in heaven may 29 2026 may 29 2026 jt twissel 27 comments i ll never forget the day my boss informed me that he was giving me a raise on one condition that i never report him to human resources for sexual harassment we were sitting at the table in his office with his boss who looked at the paper with my new salary and said that s not enough she needs at least 10k more won t that look suspicious sharon s bound to f k it el supreme leader victor said give her 20k more let sharon think what she wants i can handle her i have to point out at this point that my boss whose name was ilan was the last man in that building any woman would ever accuse of sexual harassment despite his attendance at any march in the sf bay area where scantily dressed or downright naked folks pranced boldly through the streets proclaiming their sexual perversions he would take thousands of pictures which he couldn t wait to share come the next monday morning jan look at these pictures i took at the pride march i m not really a prude but some of the pictures he was the most proud of oh my look at your face those costumes look so unhygienic you don t like leather jockstraps how about this guy he s wearing an edible jockstrap i just saw a mouse run out of your office with one of your cookies in his mouth they like the vanilla wafers maybe we should call the exterminator never what a beast i was for suggesting such a thing a regular bitch of buchenwald as a teenager he had been sent to israel by his polish parents to escape such monsters and now here i was working for him generally at this point the homeless man who d made permanent residence under the one window in his office would rise and stretch and then whip out his penis and pee against the side of the building sometimes he d hit the window and ilan would giggle the window faced a narrow green space between two buildings and was a prime location for folks to sleep it off in peace to turn ilan s homeless guy into the police was unthinkable never who was i the gestapo that was back in the nineties and ilan is gone now no doubt surrounded by all the mice in heaven he s drinking his mr piss and sharing a loaf of bread and chunk of cheese with them i can see it all now i generally don t mess with ai but ilan detested having photos taken of himself after i published my first book one of my ex bosses said she was afraid i d written about her i didn t know how to tell her she just wasn t that interesting but ilan well i haven t finished the flipka sequel feeling crabby may 21 2026 jt twissel 27 comments memorial day is my least favorite day of the year even though it often coincides with my birthday there s nothing grimmer than a day set aside to honor the dead primarily those who died in battle that s been co opted by cook outs and door buster sales and so i m feeling crabby and cranky and battling the urge to eat junk food tons of junk food fried salty spicy and terribly terribly fattening it s also the official start to my least favorite season summer when i was a kid summers meant endless hours of swim team practice ear infections blurry vision and slimy yellow green hair and that was during the week then yippee weekend backpacking trips into the high sierra nothing could be more fun for a teenage girl than trudging uphill carrying a thirty pound backpack and breathing in the dust from the mule train ahead of her i never did get the glories of nature bit my father promised from those vacations now if i could have ridden this beast up the mountain i might have enjoyed backpacking i was in a hurry but the next time i m over at the park i ll make sure of jot down the name of the artist what a masterpiece of imagination posts navigation older posts follow blog via email email address follow looking for something search for 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