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Anticipating Halloween

October 26, 2019 jah Leave a comment

We went to a few Halloween parties the weekend before (I’m all for the proposed legislation to move it to the last Saturday of every October). It happened to be the night one of the party locations required a power shutoff to avoid possible fires because of PG&E’s negligence and greed over the years. We still managed to have fun because this power outage was at least anticipated.

Bella and her hot dog costume
Shando and Joe at Halloween party during blackout.

Pets

September Dogs

September 30, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Shando and our neighbor guest dog Crush(er):

Our dogs (with some guest dogs featured)

Guest dogs

California, Street Fairs

Folsom Street Fair

September 29, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Photos, Travel, Video

Iceland Golden Circle

September 15, 2019 jah Leave a comment

I went to Iceland in 2013, but this was Shando’s first time, so we decided to do the Bears on Ice event with a bunch of bears, almost all of whom turned out to be Americans. This was also my first time at the Blue Lagoon.

Airport Layover

Downtown sites of interest include a church that looks like an upright airplane…

Star Wars theme bathroom in a small cafe…

Seemingly permanent rainbow sidewalk…

Iconic opera house and nearby symbolic Viking ship…

and random murals and art.

Beginning our Golden Circle journey at City Hall.

Continental Divide

Geyser

Waterfall

The countryside we were kind of forced to see when our tour bus broke down!

Blue Lagoon

Travel

London

September 14, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Us in London Gallery:

Shando Gallery:

Joe Gallery:

London Eye:

Architecture:

Bridges:

Art:

Family

Catanzaro

September 11, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Antonella’s House

Marisa’s House

Rossana’s House

Driving Around Calabria and back and forth to Naples.

Travel

Capri

September 6, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Us on Capri (Gallery 1 of 2):

Scenery from boat ride around the island (Gallery 2 of 2):

Travel

Napoli

September 6, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Travel

Easyjet Mishap

September 5, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Part of our Easyjet wing came off while in flight yesterday! The orange cover and the piece of metal that presumably holds the mechanics in place went arrivederci.

I noticed there was an orange cover MISSING while we were flying into Naples from Venice!

As shown clearly in the video when we landed, there are mechanics that are missing, including what appears to be something connecting the upper and lower part of the underwing part, all of which should be covered by the orange cover, which fell off during flight.

As we walked away from the plane, I took a picture of the other wing. You can clearly see that there should be orange covers on the wing supports (a total of three per wing, including the one furthest out, although one closer to the fuselage is not visible here), presumably to guide the plane down to a safe landing. Fortunately, we made it without incident.

The video footage is of the wing that lost the part after we landed. I was holding my breath that everything would go well.

Travel

Venezia Day Trip

September 5, 2019 jah Leave a comment

Three videos and three galleries are in this posting.

Us in Venice (Gallery 1 of 3):

Architecture(Gallery 2 of 3):

Art (Gallery 3 of 3) – Unfortunately we did not get video of the birds chasing the swimming rat, but at least we got a good photo of their unsuccessful pursuit: