Chicken Blog: Torrey Pines State Beach :: One Hundred Twenty Two

Monday, May 02, 2016

Torrey Pines State Beach :: One Hundred Twenty Two

A beautiful morning, on the beach, with Maria, and this gull.

With Infinity More Monkeys, a picture a day.

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Tracy BatchelderMay 2, 2016 at 6:30 AM
Looks like you had the beach all to yourselves. Pretty place!
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(Insert self-conscious laugh, here)

I've been working on a new blog post for about a week, but the closer I got to this date, the slower and more distracted I became. Today is the first of 2 different hearings, related to the accident. I've been anxious. But now... now, I am sick with it. I feel as trapped and vulnerable as that night, stuck in my crushed van. I don't want to see her. I don't want to be seen. I wish I knew how to do make-up, feel confident, look composed. Is there even a lipstick or cardigan that could help me? My concerns, what I am sharing, seem so trivial, but of course there is more... it's just that even on a superficial level, I feel barely capable of coping. How, or when, I will ever feel ok, again, is beyond me.

April 11, 2019

10:48 am

My favorite part of Spring is that Geoff starts coming home earlier, going in a bit later, and hanging around on weekends. I am sorry to say... I have to put him to work straightaway! Our sink faucet is a bust, and my computer was a mess. He upgraded our hard drive, and last night he and I had a hardware store date to get a new faucet. (Nobody is welcome at our house until I have a working kitchen sink again! #bigstinkymess)

March 29, 2019

8:21 am

Thank you for comments. Comments and engagement make blogging worthwhile. Also, I wish I could prescribe wonderful smelling ointment and a good shoulder massage to everyone in the world. Now I am going outside to look at birds.

March 26, 2019

9:55 am

Nope. Thats a negative. Computer and Phone are not cooperating, and nothing is importing. I am like a balloon with a very very teeny leak, slowly deflating, with a high pitched whine, into a flabby little puddle. Perhaps it's a good time to open my gratitude journal and stretch myself into a better state of mind, or do the plumbing.

March 26, 2019

8:41 am

Errrm... maybe not. It's been 9 minutes, and only 4 photos have imported. And nothing is whirring or spinning, or counting down. Also, I came downstairs to find all of the stuff from under the kitchen sink out of place, and paper towels lining the floor of the cabinet. Leak. Mystery leak. It's not plumber time, yet, because I am handy-enough to at least make a diagnosis, if not the repair. But, for some reason I am not in the mood to crawl into the cabinet, with the water running, and figure it out. I will. Just... let me work up some enthusiasm for the task, first. Ugh... still only 4 pictures imported and it's been a quarter of an hour.

March 26, 2019

8:21 am

oh! Hello! Good news... I've tried half a dozen times to get the computer and phone to talk to each other, to no avail. This morning they seem to have called a truce, and I may be uploading photos! Finally. At last. W00T W00T!

March 26, 2019

8:09 am

Alex and I had our school break last week, and Max is taking his spring break this week. Maria's break doesn't come until April, but it won't include Easter. Geoff may get time off, after months of long hours and working weekends, but he's not sure he should actually take the time off. I'm not surprised or even complaining... it's more of an observation and casual, "bummer." And then I wonder if I should be making plans for summer.

March 26, 2019

8:06 am

A flock of cedar waxwings visited the bare tree just across the street from our house, and I got Geoff, Maria, Max, and Alex to come out and look at them. We could see them plainly, and with binoculars we could see the vivid red and yellow bars on their wings. It's been an amazing winter for birding, and I've delved into it even more than the year of the scissor tailed flycatcher. I've seen Grace's Warblers, Townsend Warblers, Hermit Warblers, Audubon Warblers, Mountain Chickadees, Cassin's Kingbirds, House Finches, Pipits, Kinglets, Western Bluebirds, Mockingbirds, Red shouldered Hawks and Red Tailed hawks, California Towhee, Black Phoebes, Bushtits, Comorants... gulls, doves, crows, and scrub jays, of course.

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