tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106049882024-03-07T11:27:18.041-08:00MecozyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1091125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-19137078304885330382018-08-05T16:50:00.001-07:002018-08-05T16:50:26.509-07:00shimmering day<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/28936110507/in/dateposted-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="1905" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/940/28936110507_5453a7825d_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">beautiful day in point reyes station and at tomales point. we saw about <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/28936108387/in/album-72157698244489471/" target="_blank">60 tule elk</a> throughout the hike and drive. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/albums/72157698244489471" target="_blank">more from pierce point ranch</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">marilyn made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krVQ1XxJ9s8" target="_blank">a dance video</a> from the footage at pierce point ranch, in the milking barn and around. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-77829750868871749322018-07-20T16:25:00.003-07:002018-07-20T16:25:58.404-07:00red<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/41728832140/in/album-72157668925826557/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="800" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/851/41728832140_713007be51_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">from sweden (sigtuna to be exact) </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">holding on to that summer vacation feeling...
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">it's good to be home after a wonderful trip. even our dwarf peach tree (not pictured) is fruiting in its first year. although currently it's dusted (as is everything) with ash from the fires to the north. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the cats survived our absence without getting into any scrapes with neighbor cats and without our total spoiling of them. (with us they are on a 10 small meals a day diet, while most people do a 2 times a day thing. :-)) ^^ ^^</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-74213523545060669302018-05-25T20:32:00.002-07:002018-05-25T20:32:31.387-07:00beekeeping cat<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/42307794562/in/datetaken-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="1200" src="https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1727/42307794562_9abf7db357_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">1. papi; 2. honey; 3. beeswax </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">all amazing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">we went to mount diablo two weekends in a row because it was so glorious, and neither of us had been in many many years. we didn't realize what we had been missing! it was bursting with spring—birds, bees, butterflies, all manner of insects, wildflowers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">see <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/albums/72157695916757224" target="_blank">more butterflies and flowers from mount diablo</a></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-63265331516231117472018-04-27T15:34:00.003-07:002018-04-27T15:34:36.128-07:00back yard beauty<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/41028405834/in/datetaken-public/" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="1600" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/948/41028405834_27499df9e2_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in love with our back yard</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">delicious scented bloom (rosemary behind)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">baby fig tree (cute!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">mint and spring yard spurt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">papi rolling in favas</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">also, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/40846791345/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">check out our rose bush</a>, popping like last year (with a crazy lil kitty rascal on the pole behind the roses)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/40846540835/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">lil kitty looking adorable</a>. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-91563580641752716532018-04-21T18:58:00.001-07:002018-04-21T18:58:23.342-07:00back yard blooms<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/27743532058/in/datetaken-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="902" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/818/27743532058_648cd9ee0c_b.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">heavenly lushness right now. swarming bees, scents drifting, flowering flowering flowering. the cats and we have it good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/27743517038/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">lil kitty rascal hung out up high</a> today </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(like 20+ feet up)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">on an old trellis, batting the new roses and walking around like a (clumsy) tightrope queen. good thing she's light and flexible and tends to land on her feet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">feeling our back yard. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">everything is blooming, reaching, opening. <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/39413135970/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">peach blossoms</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/41178716562/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">lemon blossoms</a>, mint, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/41178718352/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">favas</a>, fig! mystery bush that is aromatherapy to stand under. so fragrant. so is the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/41223186941/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">yesterday-today-tomorrow</a> plant. delicious season of dreams.</span></span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-72493999796387793362018-03-09T10:59:00.000-08:002018-03-09T10:59:13.646-08:00portraits<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/25841460577/in/dateposted-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="999" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4795/25841460577_4128968527_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-86621189480382261372018-01-15T11:39:00.000-08:002018-01-15T11:39:09.861-08:00butterflies, a bee, flowers<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/27931798939/in/dateposted-public/" title="butterfliesbeeflowers"><img alt="butterfliesbeeflowers" height="1600" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4604/27931798939_40c4d28931_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> flora and fauna at home</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-3994309908979671422017-12-31T13:10:00.001-08:002017-12-31T13:10:44.644-08:00in 2018<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/38706135464/in/dateposted-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="300" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4691/38706135464_168f3f3fcf_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we are now four, with the addition of our two tuxedos: one calm, pear shaped girl and one petite mischievous lover, names tbd. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we said <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/38535962065/in/dateposted-public/" target="_blank">fare well</a> to our dear pinky leon. </span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">❤</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ❤</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ❤</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">word for the year: <b>fleeting </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">so that i remember how each moment is </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in order not to cling </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">how life is </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to accept </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to love </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to live </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to let go </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to remember the big picture </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">how small we are </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to make it matter </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to make </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to revel </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to sink in </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to give </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to risk </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to try</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to savor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to connect </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to dance and shout </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to tend</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">each year's word is a variation on this theme, really </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we roar in to 2018!</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-36344120553931570642017-11-16T18:46:00.001-08:002017-11-16T18:46:49.207-08:00at home / away<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/38473455731/in/dateposted-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="800" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4583/38473455731_c7fc4e582e_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a couple of weekends ago we <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/albums/72157688334331481" target="_blank">drove up the sonoma and mendocino coast</a>. what a dream california is. the sweep of nature. rough and rolling and shining. never ceases to bowl me over. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and moving to see all the handwritten signs thanking the firefighters. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">honey cat (18.5 years and skinny, but still goin')</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-63675242136299454292017-09-15T09:35:00.000-07:002017-09-15T09:35:10.522-07:00last days of summer<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/36407002054/in/dateposted-public/" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="900" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4348/36407002054_5f0e167c82_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">inside | outside</span></span><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-54577218314410066382017-07-28T13:38:00.000-07:002017-07-28T13:38:16.672-07:00East Coast adventures<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/36227110015/in/dateposted-public/" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="1198" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4320/36227110015_f3671c7642_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to Philadelphia (hot and humid!), Bryn Mawr, Gladwyn, and NY </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/albums/72157684258448663">whole set</a></span></span>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-77221320784183652422017-07-15T12:58:00.000-07:002017-07-15T12:58:09.230-07:00summer vibes at home<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/35773322522/in/dateposted-public/" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="1183" src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4291/35773322522_713d8e5718_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">mint chip </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">green tomato </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">striped</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-7183813659571325622017-07-08T18:21:00.001-07:002017-07-08T18:21:14.746-07:00chant magick inspired<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">made some drawings of marilyn singing </span></span><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xr8u0L-k7s" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">some inspiration</span></span></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-29273122888931527982017-06-24T14:18:00.005-07:002017-06-24T14:18:50.654-07:00new tricks<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/35380461081/in/datetaken-public/" target="blank" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="1371" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4233/35380461081_780c6c009e_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">for enjoying the vallejo heat. giant kiddie pool!
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we traveled to the much storied topanga canyon this weekend. a friend of m's got hitched in a handfasting ceremony led by a shaman. the loves stood on the edge of the canyon and told each other poems they'd written and sang to each other. we all tied ribbons of different colors around their wrists. all connected. rather lovely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a blue diamond morning <br />an eve on the carquinez bridge with the moon and marilyn</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-57770655997905993002017-04-26T22:04:00.000-07:002017-04-26T22:04:08.775-07:00spring 5: blooms!<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/34163812051/in/datetaken-public/" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="933" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4179/34163812051_7ed9f4568b_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">our rose bush is bonkers.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604988.post-42057633682819462542017-04-11T20:25:00.001-07:002017-04-11T20:25:53.460-07:00garden beginnings<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/33986295245/in/datetaken-public/" title="Untitled"><img alt="Untitled" height="698" src="https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2939/33986295245_24e978a533_o.jpg" width="400" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we visited <a href="http://dogislandfarm.com/" target="_blank">dog island farm</a> in vallejo to get some heirloom tomato starts. the good folks there sell inexpensive heirloom starts that they've tested in our climate. ran into a neighbor there at dog island.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we hauled soil to our house with the help of a new awesome vallejoan friend's truck. same new friend is bringing us bees she'll keep in our yard (a story for another post).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we built four <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/33882232086/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">planter boxes</a> with the help of another new vallejoan friend, with tools from two different neighbors. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">at <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/shash/33856531791/in/datetaken-public/" target="_blank">mid city nursery</a> where we went to get veggie starts, we met an enthusiastic fruit tree expert who is going to come to our house and assess our yard's fruit tree growing potential. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">it takes a village to start a garden! at least when we are doing it. :-) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">we've met so many friendly people since moving here. it has taken me by surprise, this friendliness, this eagerness to connect, and it has made me happy and grateful to call vallejo home.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">more spring growth: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://chantmagick.com/" target="_blank">chants by my sweetie</a>. she just started making (almost daily) these beautiful, soothing, short chants she calls sound sketches. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">spring is my favorite. posting more below and soon above, too. </span><br />
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