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Not having a car has been good for me, I think. Much walking has been necessary in a season where it’s so much more appealing to veg at home than to bravely blunder out into the damp, grey chill.

On one such mile-eating excursion, I was stumbling over to Cody’s(after stuffing myself on WAY too much coconut soup at Jai Thai AND a mojito) and my eye was caught by furtive(but bulgey) movements in the dark of a nearby yard.

Two ginormous ‘coons scuttled up onto the steps of someone’s house and froze-absolutely in plain sight, lit by the porch light as though it was a spotlight.

They stared me down, as if they could render themselves invisible by the mere power of their gaze and immobility.

It was hilarious and sweet.

After several long moments spent gratefully soaking in their boldness, I gave them an (invisible) wink and moved on, back into the world of humans, where invisibility is so easy to attain, you don’t even have to stop moving.

But it’s more sad than amusing.

Amazing Insect Images By Igor Iwanowicz (60 pics)

Or just bugs?

Definitely the A-frame outhouse out in the woods with the child-hating, ax-fondling neighbor.. Go submit YOUR creepiest childhood place memory and read mine here.

Yay Cookieface! This is gonna be fun!

..before NASA bombs her.

‘We’re earthlings, we should bomb earth things!’(You Tube parody protest)

I wrecked Agnitara last week, damnit.

I was thinking(waytoohard) and the sun was blazing in my eyes and I just didn’t see that damn light go red, couldn’t stop in time not to smack into an Accord. Managed to drive to the gas station at the intersection and park.

Luckily no one was seriously injured(though my life is now a blur of chiropractic adjustments, massage and creaky, unhappy joints and muscles), but since I was too broke to afford collision last time the bills rolled around, I’m carless in Seattle.

Boo.

Rita and I are famous-woot!

Right under the gargantuan penis lamp too, how fortuitous…

At one of these participating restaurants and thirty percent of the proceeds will go to the Lifelong AIDS Alliance and the fight against HIV and AIDS in the Puget Sound region.

Sam and I ‘xplored the other(not towards beachy goodness) end of Carkeek park a few weeks ago.

Much to our delight we found a gnarly old orchard where many of the ancient, twisty apple and pear trees had slipped lazily down onto the ground and were still growing, sideways in lovely loopy patterns.

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There was much climbing and basking and adventuring along the windy stream with it’s lovely mossy rocks and perfect walking logs..

(click to see the weird expression on Sam’s face)

I added this bunch o’ pics to my Carkeek set on Flickr.

Ah, what a beautiful world!

Don’t let Monsanto use our own government to take control of our food.

You Tube video here. Yes, Shelly’s a cute blond, but she knows what she’s talking about and she’s sharp as a tack, unlike your average You Tube commenter, who generally seem to be the slimy goop slowly drying onto the bottom of the barrel of human stupidity.