Pic on front page of NY Jan 30 (not taken by THB)
two paintings by Chester Arnold, pic on top from a book, pic on bottom from the wall at the beach house
Late May 2025, flood from next door starts to damage the floor
Jan 2026, floor repair completed (cost fully covered by State Farm insurance)
More glorious sunsets and sunrises
super moon
When LB and KM were youngsters, THB held a treasure hunt and then made pirates stir fry. Many years later, THB had collected a large number of cigarette lighters that had washed up on the beach. For the twins, Treasure Hunter Bob finally found a use for the collection of cig lighters beach trash: he hid them around the beach house and the twins each had an i-phone to take pics of any they saw hidden. Ahhhh, the joys of modern technology. Then they could compare their pics and review the results. Well, sort of: THB did not count how many he had hidden so the day after the hunt we were still finding lighters the hunters had missed (they did their hunting independently).
Twins had a no-school day and the 6 of us used it to take a school auction purchase to tour Semifreddi's large baking site near the Oakland airport. LB is still hobbled with her broken ankle so had to wait until after the tour for her share of the freebies.
LB recommends an article from the New Yorker, it is not available on the audio version of the magazine. DB finds the way to play text from the computer, basically enabling your browser mode. Turns out the article Becoming A Centenariann is a journal of what is happening to many of us in our dotage. Highly Recommended
Dunes Restoration team (akaq DURT) usually meets 1 day a moth. THB does independent study when at Monterey Dunes
Can you spot THB in background in his matching shirt?
C is playing flag football this season, on a team of girls in 1st or 2nd grade. She's the one in blue shoesC on defense
while C is playing, J and DB are collaborating on baking the post-game snack
these two pics not taken by THB
THB finds perfect spot for e-bike, no kickstand required
Indoor bike, no kickstand required. And we sent the first one back, could not get help from the manufacturer adjusting the monitor. After many calls and e-mail requesting help, it took many calls to Amazon to get the first bike replaced and then many more calls to get the disassembled first bike picked up. THB and DB did the second assembly together. The you-tube was very hard to follow.
Pomona: THB, DB, EW and JW take a weekend in February for art.
First up: A stop at our fave ceramics museum. Our tour is led by BaG. Take good notes, the 5 of will be doing a tour of Detroit, Cleveland, and Akron the last week of March.
Highlights from AMOCA
The four of us are staying at the Hotel Casa 425 in Claremont. THB has spent the night in many a hotel room, many! The ground floor room we are in is easily in THB's top 10 most eclectic ever.
- the bathtub is in the middle of the room, with a thin drape to "hide" it
- there is one window that opens and it is above a heavily trafficked sidewalk
- there is a double sink area on the other side of the bathtub...except there is only one sink
- the hot and cold faucets are slanted..at least the hot is on the left and cold on the right
- the couch at foot of bed is actually a fold out twin bed; we aren't sure where it goes if set up
- the only way to get fresh air into the room is open the one window and prop open the door
BaG hosts us for brunch on Saturday morning. Also there is Amy S, the Lead Ceramics instructor at Cal State LA. After a brief conversation, Amy joins the "sat next to THB" club and DB and THB have offered to pay transportation for four Cal State LA students to the NCECA conference next month in Detroit.
After brunch, DB, THB, EW and JW head to the Geffen Museum in Japan town in downtown LA to see the Monuments exhibition. Very powerful...HIGHLY Recommended. Extremely pertinent to to today's strife and demonstrates how art can take a controversial topic (e.e., removal of Confederate statues) and make the issue visible.
Security is high at t the Geffen. THB is first thru and heads off to buy tix. Not so fast, buddy. You have to enter a bunch of info first. I explain that my eyes are not real good and the entry person (concierge service!) enters my data for me. Nice! Then THB double clicks his his phone to pay. No problema. Now where are my tix? E-mailed to me...THB has no idea how to do e-mail on his phone. None. My three compatriots arrive and the concierge waives us through. DB explains that most people order tix ahead of time and then download them to their phones.
Hank made the car standing up on its front end; he is also the keynote speaker at NCECA next month, has two pieces in the park across the street from the loft, and a great work at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery
photos by Andre Serrano
Martin Puryear; we saw this piece at the 2019 Venice Biennale
Archival photo's by Hugh Mangrm; he was re-using the plates, and took pics of Blacks and whites (he was "white")
Karom Davis
John Henry, photos of mothers and sons in as "pieta" poses
graffiti'd Confederate monument; many of the monuments in the show were funded by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and installed from around 1897 to 1926
Book Review: Highly Recommended
The 6 books of the Lymond Chronicles, written by Dorothy Dunnett, read by David Monteath, audio produced in2019: starting in the mid 1500s, two brothers appear to be fighting, one on the side of with the Scots, the other with the British (who are trying to fold Scotland under England). Much intrigue, many characters, with women taking an active part in the struggles. The action splays from England to Scotland, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Russia, France, and a few other spots where where clashes between monarchies and religions are occurring.
The Games of Kings book 1 pub’d 1961
Queens’ Play book 2 pub’d 1964
The Disorderly Knights book 3 pub’d 1966
Pawns In Frankincense book 4 pub’d 1969
The Ringed Castle book 5 pub’d 1971,
Checkmate book 6 pub'd 1975
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